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Farr, Edith May (1864-1956)
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)
Edith May
Last name
Farr
Initials
E.M.
Life Dates
1864 - 1956
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
PENN (main), BM, MO, NY
Countries
North American region: Canada, United States
Associate(s)
Day, Olive S. (fl. 1904-1936) (co-collector)
Krautter, Louis (1880-1909) (co-collector)
Krautter, Louis (1880-1909) (co-collector)
Biography
Edith May Farr collected plants in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1900s. Working alongside Olive S. Day she gathered plant specimens in southern Alberta and southern British Columbia during 1904 and 1905, particularly working in the region between Banff and Glacier National Parks. In 1907 she published "Contributions to a catalogue of the Flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range".
Sources:
J. Ewan, 1950, Rocky Mountain Naturalists: 207.
Sources:
J. Ewan, 1950, Rocky Mountain Naturalists: 207.
References
Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 190;
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)
Edith May
Last name
Farr
Initials
E.M.
Life Dates
1864 - 1956
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
PENN (main), BM, MO, NY
Countries
North American region: Canada, United States
Associate(s)
Day, Olive S. (fl. 1904-1936) (co-collector)
Krautter, Louis (1880-1909) (co-collector)
Krautter, Louis (1880-1909) (co-collector)
Biography
Edith May Farr collected plants in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1900s. Working alongside Olive S. Day she gathered plant specimens in southern Alberta and southern British Columbia during 1904 and 1905, particularly working in the region between Banff and Glacier National Parks. In 1907 she published "Contributions to a catalogue of the Flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range".
Sources:
J. Ewan, 1950, Rocky Mountain Naturalists: 207.
Sources:
J. Ewan, 1950, Rocky Mountain Naturalists: 207.
References
Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 190;
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