Background
SHEAR, Cornelius Lott was born on March 26, 1865 in Coeymans Hollow, Albany Company, New York, United States. Son of Henry Lansing and Mary (Speenberg) Shear.
SHEAR, Cornelius Lott was born on March 26, 1865 in Coeymans Hollow, Albany Company, New York, United States. Son of Henry Lansing and Mary (Speenberg) Shear.
Graduate New York State Normal School, Albany, 1888. Bachelor of Science, University Nebraska, 1897, A.M., 1901. Doctor of Philosophy., George Washington University, 1906.
Studied plant pathology and mycology, Munich, Berlin, Leiden and London.
Special field agent Division Agrostology, summers, 1895-1897. Assistant agrostologist, 1898-1901, assistant pathologist, 1901-1902, pathologist, 1902-1923, senior pathologist, 1923-1925, principal pathologist in charge office of mycology and disease survey, 1925-1935. Retired, appointed collaborator, 1935, United States Department of Agriculture Editor Asa Gray Bulletin, 1898-1900.
Associate editor Plant World, 1900-1905. One of editors Phytopathology, 1911-1915. Associate editor Mycologia since 1909.
Edited revision of plant pathological and mycological terms in Century Dictionary.
Editor Asa Gray Bulletin, 1898-1900. Associate editor Plant World, 1900-1905. One of editors Phytopathology, 1911-1915.Associate editor Mycologia since 1909. Edited revision of plant pathological and mycological terms in Century Dictionary.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Botanical Society American, American Society Naturalists, Association Internationale des Botanistes, American Phytopathol. Society (secretary-treasurer), Botanical Society Washington, Washington Academy Sciences, Sigma Xi.
United States official delegate Pasteur Centennial Celebration, Paris, 1923.
Married Avis Morrison Sherwood, December 25, 1890. Children: Sherwood William, Deming Jonas, Mary Beatrice, George Myron, Dorothy Margaret, Cornelius Barrett.