Charles Frederick Millspaugh

Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1854-1923) was an American botanist, born at Ithaca, N.Y., and educated at Cornell and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. For several years he practiced medicine and from 1891 to 1893 taught botany at West Virginia University. In 1894 he was appointed curator of the department of botany of the Field Museum of Natural History; from 1897 to 1923 he was professor of medical botany at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. He was also lecturer on botany at the University of Chicago. Millspaugh carried on explorations in the West Indies, Brazil, and other parts of South America, and was the author of American Medical Plants (1887); Flora of West Virginia (1891); and many articles in scientific and popular journals.

The genera Millspaughia B.L.Rob. and Neomillspaughia S.F.Blake (Polygonaceae) were named in his honor.

The standard author abbreviation Millsp. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Bibliography

Books by and about Charles Frederick Millspaugh on WorldCat^[2]

Notes

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 
2. ^ Results for 'Charles Frederick Millspaugh' (WorldCat.org) at www.worldcat.org

External links

Publications by Charles Frederick Millspaugh at the Biodiversity Library [1]

See also

• Nashia
• Cubanthus
• List of botanists by author abbreviation

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Millspaugh, Charles Frederick
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Date of birth	1854
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Date of death	1923
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