Alvan Wentworth Chapman
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Alvan Wentworth Chapman (September 28, 1809 – April 6, 1899) was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American Southeast.[1]Template:Rp He wrote Flora of the Southern United States, the first comprehensive description of U.S. plants in any region beyond the northeastern states.[1]
Life
Chapman was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children. In 1830, he graduated from Amherst College with a degree in classics. He moved to Georgia and then Florida where he held various teaching positions, and he married Mary Ann Hancock in 1839. In the early 1840s, he received a medical education, acquiring his MD in 1846. In 1847, he settled in Apalachicola, Florida, remaining there for the rest of his life working as a physician and botanist, collaborating with Asa Gray.[2]
Works
His botanical interest seems to have started when he lived in Georgia, adjacent to the botanically unexplored regions of northern Florida. Working in near isolation, in his spare time, he had a manuscript by 1859 and visited Harvard University for five months, consulting with Gray and arranging for publication of his Flora of the Southern United States, which occurred in 1860.[1]Template:Rp Chapman brought out a second edition in 1884 and a third edition in 1897.
Legacy
- He is memorialized in the genus Chapmannia and a multitude of species names.
- Chapman High School and Chapman Elementary School in Apalachicola are named in his honor.
- Chapman Botanical Gardens in Apalachicola.
- Chapman House Museum Script error: No such module "webarchive". – Greek Revival-style home built in the 1840s by Chapman in Apalachicola.
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Notes
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- ^ a b c Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dupree, A. Hunter (1988). Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-801-83741-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.International Plant Names Index. Chapm.
References
- Duane Isely, One hundred and one botanists (Iowa State University Press, 1994), pp. 181–183
- Raymond B. Becker. John Gorrie, M.D.: Father of Air Conditioning and Mechanical Refrigeration. Carlton Press, 1972. (Contains biographical information about Chapman).
- Chapman, A.W. Flora of the Southern United States. Ivison, Phinney and Co., New York. 1860. (Available on Google Books).
External links
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