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George Newton Best (October 16, 1846 – June 18, 1926) was an American bryologist , expert on moss taxonomy , and second president of the Sullivant Moss Society .[1] [2]
Biography [ edit ]
Best attended Lafayette College for three years before leaving to teach high school in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania . He resumed his education at the University of Pennsylvania , graduating with a degree in medicine in 1875. He took up his medical practice in the Rosemont section of Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey .[2]
Best was also a prominent bryologist, contributing often to Torrey Botanical Club publications. He was instrumental in revising and reclassifying many moss genera, including Thuidium Claopodium Heterocladium Leskea Pseudoleskea [3]
Best served as associate editor of The Bryologist [1] [4] Medical Society of New Jersey , American Medical Association , and Torrey Botanical Club. He died on June 18, 1926.[5]
Best's personal herbarium of mosses and publications were absorbed into the collection of the New York Botanical Garden .[5]
In 1906, botanist Broth. published Bestia Lembophyllaceae and it was named in George Newton Best's honour.[6]
Selected publications [ edit ]
Best, G. (1896). Revision of the North American Thuidiums. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club , 23(3 ), 78–90. doi :10.2307/2478118
Best, G. (1897). Revision of the Claopodiums. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 24(9 ), 427–432. doi :10.2307/2477924
Best, G. (1900). Revision of the North American Species of Pseudoleskea. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 27(5 ), 221–236. doi :10.2307/2485378
Best, G. (1901). Revision of the North American Species of Heterocladium. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 28(2 ), 123–131. doi :10.2307/2477888
Best, G. (1901). Vegetative Reproduction of Mosses. The Bryologist, 4(1 ), 1º3. doi :10.2307/3238870
Best, G. (1903). Revision of the North American Species of Leskea. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 30(9 ), 463–482. doi :10.2307/2478535
The standard author abbreviation Best citing a botanical name .[7]
References [ edit ]
^ Leonard, John W., and Albert N. Marquis. Who's who in America, Volumes 2-4 . Marquis Who's Who, 1906.
^ Smith, Annie Morrill . The Early History of the Bryologist and the Sullivant Moss Society JSTOR 3238019
^ a b Beals, A. T. Dr. George N. Best, 1846-1926. The Bryologist, vol. 30, no. 2, 1927, pp. 20–22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3238332
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names ] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi :10.3372/epolist2022 . ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8 S2CID 246307410 . Retrieved January 27, 2022 .
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