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Page 39 · DO #4878 · 231_Rogers_Bx8FF10_r
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David James Rogers (1918–2007) papers
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Manihot - Miscellaneous Grants, up to 1956
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DO #4878,
page 39
- Collection-level dates
- 1948–1977
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found in most laboratories. The inadequacies of this material is evident, however, by even a casual glance through the collections of the country's most outstanding herbaria. Equipment is on hand, or can be constructed, for most of the microbiological assays. However, a first class research microscope for the genetic studies does not exist on the campus of Allegheny College. The highest powers available are the 900x of the student oil immersion lenses.
Personnel: At present, the only investigator involved is the principal, Rogers. Born in 1918 at De Funiak Springs, Florida, of native white citizens of the US, educated in the public school system in Florida through BS in botany at the University of Florida. Four and one half years of war service as artillery officer in combat division, plus other army odd jobs; master's and doctor's (PhD, 1951) at Washington University, majoring in systematics under Dr. R. E. Woodson, Jr., specializing for research in the Euphorbiaceae. Title of doctoral thesis: "A Revision of Stillingia in the New World", published in the Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard., 1951. Published also a short paper on a small genus of Phytolaccaceae: "Stegnosperma: A New Species and Generic Commentary", ibid, 1949. Worked as student assistant since under-graduate days as general botany lab. assistant and later in graduate school as herbarium assistant, greenhouse flunky and general handy-man in the Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington University and at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The last year of Graduate
