Organisation(s)
BISH (main), KLU (main), SD (main), A, BM, DPU, FI, GUAM, K, L, LAE, MO, P, PH, POM, SING, TAN, U, US
Countries
Pacific region: Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated StatesMadagascan region: MadagascarMalesian region: Malaysia, PhilippinesMascarenes: MauritiusAustralasia: Papua New GuineaEurope: SwitzerlandNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Fosberg, Francis Raymond (Ray) (1908-1993)
Friedmann, Francis (1941-)
Guillaumet, Jean-Louis (1934-)
Morat, Phillippe (1937-)
Ratnasabapathy, M. (1929-)
Shimizu, Tatemi (1932-)
Stone, Michiko (co-collector, wife)
Biography
Born in Shanghai with an English father and American mother, Ben Stone was a botanist who studied at the Universities of Claremont, California and Washington, before receiving his PhD from the University of Hawaii (1961). He was appointed Professor of Biology in Guam (1961-1965) before accepting a position as Professor of Biology and Curator of the Herbarium (KLU) of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1965-1990). He moved back to the United States and worked at the Philadephia Academy of Sciences before becoming principal investigator (1990-1994) for a plant inventory of the Philippines at the Bernice O. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (1990-1993) and latterly at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth (1993-1994). He returned to Manila where he died on 19 March 1994. In addition to his expertise on floristics of the Micronesia, Stone was a leading expert on the Pandanaceae, Rutaceae and Myrsinaceae.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 619; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 458; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 962;
