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JOSEPH BURTT-DAVY, who died on August 20, was born on March 7, 1870, at Findern, Derby. He was educated privately. During 1891—92 he worked as an assistant in the Director's Office at Kew. On leaving Kew he went to California, where he worked as a research student and held various botanical posts in the University, finishing there in 1902 as instructor in botany. It was there that he also met his wife. Afterwards he served as assistant curator in the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. During his stay in America he published several short papers on the vegetation of California, the vegetation and crops of the Colorado delta, and he contributed the accounts of the glumaceous families of Monocotyledons for Jepson's “Flora of Western Middle California”.
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HUTCHINSON, J. Dr. J. Burtt-Davy. Nature 146, 424 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146424a0
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