FARLOW, WILLIAM GILSON

1844–1919, American botanist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1866. His chief contributions were made in the study of cryptogamic and parasitic plants. Many eminent botanists received their training in his Harvard laboratory. The Farlow Herbarium at Harvard is named after him.

____________________

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

-16500-

Top...
Search the Library
Books
Journals
Magazines
Newspapers
Encyclopedia
Advanced Search
About Questia
Questia is the world's largest online academic library offering full-text books, journals, and articles on thousands of topics.

Join Now...
Questia Books and Articles on: Farlow William Gilson
We found: 8 results
By media type:
 

Books:

 

5  

 

Journal articles:

 

1  

 

Magazine articles:

 

0  

 

Newspaper articles:

 

1  

 

Encyclopedia articles:

 

1  
 

books on: Farlow William Gilson  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Later Years of the Saturday Club, 1870-1920
Book by M. A. De Wolfe Howe; Houghton Mifflin, 1927
Subjects: Authors, American, Boston (Mass.)--Biography, Saturday Club (Boston, Mass.)
...Memoir, 207 -13. Endicott, William Crowninshield, son of foregoing, 208 , 211 . Endicott, William Putnam, 207 . Essex bar, 208...238 . Faraday, Michael, 61 . Farlow, William Gilson, Memoir, 314 -16; on Asa Gray...
2.
Erwin Frink Smith; a Story of North American Plant Pathology
Book by Andrew Denny Rodgers; American Philosophical Society, 1952
Subjects: Plant Diseases, Smith, Erwin F--(Erwin Frink)--1854-1927
...see, its start in America. William Gilson Farlow 5 in 1866 had received his...William Albert Setchell, William Gilson Farlow 1844- 1919, Natl Acad...Commemorating the 100th Birthday of William Gilson Farlow 1844- 1944, Farlowia , A...
3.
Education, Bricks and Mortar: Harvard Buildings and Their Contribution to the Advancement of Learning
Book; Harvard University Press, 1949
Subjects: Harvard University--Description
...Education. Named in memory of William Gilson Farlow A.B. 1866 , who bequeathed...University from estate of Lillian G. Farlow. Purchase Cost: $60,000 including...FISHER MUSEUM: see Harvard Forest WILLIAM HAYES FOGG ART MUSEUM: 1927 Contains...
4.
Symbiosis: An Introduction to Biological Associations
Book by Surindar Paracer, Vernon Ahmadjian; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Symbiosis
...its botanical laboratory" by William Dudley in 1888. 3 De Bary and...supporters, asked his student, William Gilson Farlow, to go to Germany and study the...under de Bary. In a letter to Farlow in January 1873, Gray outlined...
5.
The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of Its First Half Century
Book by George Brown Goode; Smithsonian Institution, 1897
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution--History
...Society of London 611 V GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY , BY WILLIAM NORTH RICE, Professor of Geology, eyan University...University of Pennsylvania 679 VIII BOTANY , BY WILLIAM GILSON FARLOW, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University...


Top...
 

journal articles on: Farlow William Gilson  - 1 result

 
 
1.
The Actual Infinite as a Day or the Games
Journal article by Pascal Massie; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Aristotle--Works, Monotheism--Comparative analysis, Pantheism--Comparative analysis, Philosophical theology--Analysis
...real"; John King-Farlow, "The Actual Infinite...Jean Pepin, Etienne Gilson, W.D. Ross...grammatically unambiguous, William Guthrie translates...instance, Etienne Gilson: "If the Greeks...1830), trans. William Wallace (Oxford...sense of infinity, Gilson is prompt in identifying...


Top...
 

newspaper articles on: Farlow William Gilson  - 1 result

 
 
1.
University of Teesside Academic Awards 2005
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), November 22, 2005
...Cowell Andrea Nicole Louise Flanagan Brian William Graves Diane Greaves John Kennedy Emily...Ogden Alastair John Leslie Robertson Nigel William Smith Janette Welford Cherry Zellweger...and Finance DAY ZIMMERMANN PRIZE Nigel William Smith MBA (Public Management) EDE RAVENSCROFT...


Top...
 

encyclopedia articles on: Farlow William Gilson  - 1 result

 
 
1.
Farlow, William Gilson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FARLOW, WILLIAM GILSON 1844 1919, American botanist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1866...eminent botanists received their training in his Harvard laboratory. The Farlow Herbarium at Harvard is named after him...


Top...
 About Questia   ::   Privacy   ::   Contact