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Gilly, Charles Louis (1911-1970)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Charles Louis
Last name
Gilly
Initials
C.L.
Life Dates
1911 - 1970
Collecting Dates
1937 - 1964
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
MSC (main), CAS, GH, MICH, MO, NY, TENN, UMO
Countries
Caribbean region: CubaCentral American Continent: Guatemala, Mexico, NicaraguaNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Camp, Wendell Holmes (Red) (1904-1963) (co-author)
Gentry, Howard Scott (1903-1993) (co-collector)
Hernández Xolocotzi, Efraim (co-collector)
Hernández-Xolocotzi Guzman, Efraim Ildefonso (1913-1991) (co-collector)
Koranda, John James (1927-) (co-collector)
Marshall, T.H.P. (fl. 1952-1957) (co-collector)
Ogden, Eugene Cecil (1905-2001) (co-collector)
Parmelee, G.W. (fl. 1949-1960) (co-collector)
Rickett, Harold William (1896-1989) (co-collector)
Sharp, Aaron John (Jack) (1904-1997) (co-collector)
Simpson, Robert F. (fl. 1943) (co-collector)
Gentry, Howard Scott (1903-1993) (co-collector)
Hernández Xolocotzi, Efraim (co-collector)
Hernández-Xolocotzi Guzman, Efraim Ildefonso (1913-1991) (co-collector)
Koranda, John James (1927-) (co-collector)
Marshall, T.H.P. (fl. 1952-1957) (co-collector)
Ogden, Eugene Cecil (1905-2001) (co-collector)
Parmelee, G.W. (fl. 1949-1960) (co-collector)
Rickett, Harold William (1896-1989) (co-collector)
Sharp, Aaron John (Jack) (1904-1997) (co-collector)
Simpson, Robert F. (fl. 1943) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist. Charles Louis Gilly, who was born in Fairfield, Iowa, was a plant taxonomist at Iowa State University for many years. During his time there, he collected in parts of Cuba (1937), Mexico (1942-1944), Guatemala (1944), and Nicaragua (1945). He published, with his colleague W.H. Camp, a controversial treatise entitled 'Structure and Origin of the Species' (1943), which contains the first use of the term "biosystematics". After completing a PhD thesis on the taxonomy of teosinte in 1948, he went to Michigan State College as assistant professor of botany and curator of the herbarium. He made a last expedition to Mexico, in 1950-1951, on a project searching for sources of cortisone for the Department of Agriculture with Eugene Ogden and Howard Gentry. He resigned in 1954 and died in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1970.
Sources:
A. Fryday, personal communication, January 2008
H.I. Iltis and J.F Doebley, 1980, American Journal of Botany, 67(6): 994-1004.
Sources:
A. Fryday, personal communication, January 2008
H.I. Iltis and J.F Doebley, 1980, American Journal of Botany, 67(6): 994-1004.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 228; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 32; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 21; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 225;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Charles Louis
Last name
Gilly
Initials
C.L.
Life Dates
1911 - 1970
Collecting Dates
1937 - 1964
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
MSC (main), CAS, GH, MICH, MO, NY, TENN, UMO
Countries
Caribbean region: CubaCentral American Continent: Guatemala, Mexico, NicaraguaNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Camp, Wendell Holmes (Red) (1904-1963) (co-author)
Gentry, Howard Scott (1903-1993) (co-collector)
Hernández Xolocotzi, Efraim (co-collector)
Hernández-Xolocotzi Guzman, Efraim Ildefonso (1913-1991) (co-collector)
Koranda, John James (1927-) (co-collector)
Marshall, T.H.P. (fl. 1952-1957) (co-collector)
Ogden, Eugene Cecil (1905-2001) (co-collector)
Parmelee, G.W. (fl. 1949-1960) (co-collector)
Rickett, Harold William (1896-1989) (co-collector)
Sharp, Aaron John (Jack) (1904-1997) (co-collector)
Simpson, Robert F. (fl. 1943) (co-collector)
Gentry, Howard Scott (1903-1993) (co-collector)
Hernández Xolocotzi, Efraim (co-collector)
Hernández-Xolocotzi Guzman, Efraim Ildefonso (1913-1991) (co-collector)
Koranda, John James (1927-) (co-collector)
Marshall, T.H.P. (fl. 1952-1957) (co-collector)
Ogden, Eugene Cecil (1905-2001) (co-collector)
Parmelee, G.W. (fl. 1949-1960) (co-collector)
Rickett, Harold William (1896-1989) (co-collector)
Sharp, Aaron John (Jack) (1904-1997) (co-collector)
Simpson, Robert F. (fl. 1943) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist. Charles Louis Gilly, who was born in Fairfield, Iowa, was a plant taxonomist at Iowa State University for many years. During his time there, he collected in parts of Cuba (1937), Mexico (1942-1944), Guatemala (1944), and Nicaragua (1945). He published, with his colleague W.H. Camp, a controversial treatise entitled 'Structure and Origin of the Species' (1943), which contains the first use of the term "biosystematics". After completing a PhD thesis on the taxonomy of teosinte in 1948, he went to Michigan State College as assistant professor of botany and curator of the herbarium. He made a last expedition to Mexico, in 1950-1951, on a project searching for sources of cortisone for the Department of Agriculture with Eugene Ogden and Howard Gentry. He resigned in 1954 and died in Traverse City, Michigan, in 1970.
Sources:
A. Fryday, personal communication, January 2008
H.I. Iltis and J.F Doebley, 1980, American Journal of Botany, 67(6): 994-1004.
Sources:
A. Fryday, personal communication, January 2008
H.I. Iltis and J.F Doebley, 1980, American Journal of Botany, 67(6): 994-1004.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 228; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 32; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 21; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 225;
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