- Lyster Hoxie Dewey
Lyster Hoxie Dewey (1865–1944) was an American botanist, born at Cambridge, Mich. In 1888 he graduated from Michigan Agricultural College where for the next two years he taught botany. He was an assistant botanist of the
United States Department of Agriculture from 1890 to 1902 and thereafter botanist in charge of fibre investigations. In 1911 he was the representative of the United States to theInternational Fibre Congress at Soerahaia,Java . His publications comprise bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture on the production of fibre fromflax ,hemp ,sisal , and manila plants, on the classification and origin of the varieties ofcotton , and also investigations ongrass es and troublesomeweed s.
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