Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through the course of his career he authored nearly 500 publications, described approximately 3,000 new plant species, and amassed over one million herbarium specimens. In addition to his scientific work he was an accomplished administrator, college dean, university professor and editor of scientific journals. (From Wikipedia) More about Elmer D. Merrill:
| | Books by Elmer D. Merrill: Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Bibliography of Polynesian Botany (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #13; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924) (PDF at bishopmeseum.org) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: The Botany of Cook's Voyages and its Unexpected Significance in Relation to Anthropology, Biogeography, and History (Chronica Botanica v14, #5/6; Waltham, MA: Chronica Botanica Co., 1954) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Polynesian Botanical Bibliography, 1773-1935 (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #144; Honolulu: The Museum, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by Elmer D. Merrill in the extended shelves: Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: The Ascent of Mount Halcon, Mindoro (Manila : Bureau of Printing, 1907., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants (Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A bibliography of eastern Asiatic botany (Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1938), also by Egbert H. Walker, National Science Foundation (U.S.), New York Botanical Garden, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Arnold Arboretum, and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A bibliography of eastern Asiatic botany. Supplement 1- (American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1960), also by Egbert H. Walker, American Institute of Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation (U.S.), New York Botanical Garden, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Arnold Arboretum, and Smithsonian Institution (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Bibliography of Polynesian botany (Honolulu, Hawaii, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Botanical work in the Philippines. (Bureau of Public Printing, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A commentary on Loureiro's "Flora cochin-chinensis" ... (The American philosophical society, 1935) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A Contribution to the bibliography of the botany of Borneo (West, Newman & Co., 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A descriptive catalogue of the plants cultivated in the city nursery at the Cementerio del norte Manila. (Bureau of printing, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A dictionary of the plant names of the Philippine Islands (Bureau of public printing, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Distribution of life in the Philippines. (Bureau of printing, 1928), also by Roy E. Dickerson, Albert W. Herre, Edward Harrison Taylor, Willie Schultze, and Richard C. McGregor (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants (Bureau of printing, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants (Bureau of printing, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: An enumeration of plants collected in Sumatra by W.N. and C.M. Bangham (Arnold arboretum of Harvard University, 1934) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A flora of Manila. (Bureau of Printing, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: The grasses of Alaska (Govt. print. off., 1910), also by F. Lamson-Scribner (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: An interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium amboinense. (Bureau of Printing, 1917), also by Charles Budd Robinson (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Minor products of Philippine forests (Bureau of Printing, 1920), also by William Henry Brown, Augustus Price West, Otto August Reinking, Leon Ma. Guerrero, and Arthur Frederick Fischer (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: New or noteworthy Philippine plants ... (Bureau of public printing, 1904), also by Charles Baron Clarke, H. N. Ridley, and E. Hackel (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: New or noteworthy Philippine plants, IV (Bureau of Printing, 1905), also by Charles Baron Clarke, Henry Nicholas Ridley, and E. Hackel (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: North American species of Chætochloa (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Agrostology, 1900), also by F. Lamson-Scribner (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: The North American species of Spartina (G.P.O., 1902), also by United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Osbeck's Dagbok öfwer en Ostindsk res (Lancaster, Pa., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Philippine Freycinetia : The oaks of the Philippines. The genus Radermachera Hassk. in the Philippines. (Bureau of Science, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Philippine palms and palm products. (Bureau of printing, 1919), also by William Henry Brown (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Report on investigations made in Java in the year 1902 ... (Bureau of Public Printing, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: A review of the identifications of the species described in Blanco's Flora de Filipinas (Bureau of Public Printing, 1905), also by Philippines. Bureau of Government Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Species Blancoanae; a critical revision of the Philippine species of plants described by Blanco and by Llanos. (Bureau of Printing, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust) Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956: Western Minerva (P. Smith, 1949), also by C. S. Rafinesque (page images at HathiTrust)
Find more by Elmer D. Merrill at your library, or elsewhere.
|