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John, Harold St. was born on July 25, 1892 in Pittsburgh. Son of Charles Elliott and Martha Elizabeth (Everett) St. John.
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(1963 583 pages with illustrations. Original publication, ...)
1963 583 pages with illustrations. Original publication, not a modern copy. Hardbound, xlib, writing on cover, text in good plus condition
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John, Harold St. was born on July 25, 1892 in Pittsburgh. Son of Charles Elliott and Martha Elizabeth (Everett) St. John.
AB, Harvard University, 1914. AM, Harvard University, 1915. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1917.
Postgraduate, University Sorbonne, Paris, 1919.
Assistant in botany, Harvard University and Radcliffe College, 1913-1915;
assistant botanist, Canada Geological Survey, 1915, 17;
assistant in botany, University Extension, 1917;
assistant professor, State College Washington, 1920-1923;
associate professor, curator Herbarium,, State College Washington, 1923-1929;
professor, U. Hawaii, 1929-1950;
department chairman, U. Hawaii, 1929-1940, 43-54;
senior professor, U. Hawaii, 1950-1957;
Wilder professor, U. Hawaii, 1957-1958;
associate director, Manoa Arboretum, 1953-1957;
board directors, Manoa Arboretum, 1957-1958. Assistant Gray Herbarium, 1913-1917, 19-20. Botanist B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, from 1929.
Visiting professor Yale University, 1939-1940. Botanist, explored for quinine Andes Mountains, Colombia, 1944-1945. J.H. Whitney visiting professor Chatham College, Pittsburgh, 1958-1959.
Smith-Mundt visiting professor U. Saigon, U. Hue Vietnam, 1959-1961. Fulbright professor Cairo U., 1963. Curator Herbarium, from 1965.
Made botanical explorations or expeditions to Newfoundland and maritimeprovinces of Canada, Hawaiian Islands, Eastern Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, S.E. Asia, Indian Ocean, Africa, northeastern and northwesternU.S.
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Second lieutenant infantry United States Army, 1918-1919. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Linnean Society London. Member Botanical Society of America, New England Botanical Club, Northwest Science Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Academy National Sciences Philadelphia, Hawaiian Botanical Society (president 1932-1933), Hawaiian Academy of Sciences (president 1947-1948), American Society Plant Taxonomists, Botanical Society Japan (honorary), Society International Phytosociologie et de Geobontique, American Legion, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi (president University Hawaii chapter 1945-1946).
Married Elizabeth Chandler, June 24, 1922. Children: Charles Elliott, Robert Pierce, Mary Merrill, Martha Everett.