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On October 14, Dr felmer Drew Merrill, the well-known America, was seventy years of age. To mark the, special numbers of the Journal of the Atmoia Arboretum (Harvard University) and of Ghrqni mJBotanica-in the latter case comprising a selSafeio from Dr. Merrill's principal general writings, witiVa biography and bibliography, entitled “Merilliana”—have been issued. After holding posts in his alma mater, the University of Maine, and in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, Merrill lived and worked from 1902 until 1923 in the Philippines, first as botanist to the Bureau of Agriculture and later also to the Bureau of Forestry at Manila and eventually to the Philippine Bureau of Science. For several years, while holding the latter post, he was also head of the Department of Botany of the University of the Philippines, and in 1919 he became director of the Bureau of Science. During this period he wrote the “Flora of Manila” (1912), “An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Am-boinense” (1917), “Species Blancoanse” (1918), “A Bibliographic Enumeration of Bornean Plants” (1921), and the “Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants”(4 vols., 1923–26).
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Prof. E. D. Merrill. Nature 158, 577 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158577a0
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