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Studies Of Mexican And Central American Plants, Issue 7; Volume 13, Part 9 Of Contributions From The United States National Herbarium
Joseph Nelson Rose, United States National Museum
G.P.O., 1911
Science; Life Sciences; Botany; Botany; Science / Life Sciences / Botany
The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family; Volume 1
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Miscellaneous Papers By J. N. Rose, N. L. Britton, John M. Coulter, And G. N. Collins (1909)
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List of Plants Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1890 in Lower California and Western Mexico, At: 1. La Paz, 2. San Pedro Martin Island, 3. Raza Island, 4. Santa Rosalia and Santa Agueda, 5. Guaymas
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Plants Of The Tres Marias Islands
Joseph Nelson Rose
The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family; Volume 3
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A Synopsis Of Mexican And Central American Umbelliferae (1900)
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Joseph Nelson Rose was an American botanist. His main field of interest was the studies of the Cactaceae (Cactus Family).
Background
Joseph Nelson Rose was born on a farm near Liberty, Union County, Indiana. He was the son of George W. Rose and Rebecca Jane (Corrington). The Rose family came originally from Monmouth County, N. J. , to southern Indiana. George W. Rose was born and brought up near Fairfield, Ind. He was drafted for service during the latter part of the Civil War, and was sent to camp at Vicksburg, Miss. , where he died, leaving two infant sons. The Corrington family, of English origin, settled in New Jersey before the American Revolution. Joseph Corrington removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1792, and his grandson Joseph Corrington was the maternal grandfather of Joseph Nelson Rose.
Education
Joseph Nelson Rose received his early education in the common schools of Union County and was graduated from the Liberty High School in 1880. In the fall of that year he entered the preparatory department of Wabash College and in 1881 the college proper, from which he was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1885. He at once reentered Wabash as its first post-graduate student, receiving the degree of M. A. in 1887 and that of Ph. D. in 1889.
Career
During the last two years Rose acted as assistant in botany to Prof. John M. Coulter, whose influence undoubtedly inspired his future career. In August 1888 Rose accepted a position as assistant botanist in the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. , under Dr. George Vasey.
His studies thus far had been upon fungi, pines, the flora of Indiana, and the Umbelliferae of North America, the last a difficult family of phanerogams upon which he published monographically, both then and later, for the most part jointly with Coulter. It fell to Rose's lot to report upon the rich botanical collections brought out of Mexico by Edward Palmer, and for the next twenty years his numerous published papers related primarily to the flora of that country.
They include a series entitled "Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants, " published in Contributions from the United States National Herbarium (1897 - 1911). These consist largely of synoptical studies and revisions in many families of flowering plants, increasing attention being given to several groups of succulents, especially Agave and the families Crassulaceae and Amaryllidaceae. Meanwhile, in 1896, the National Herbarium had been returned by the Department of Agriculture to the United States National Museum, under the custody of the Smithsonian Institution, and Rose was transferred to the Museum as assistant curator.
During the next fifteen years he made nine trips of botanical exploration to Mexico, visiting nearly every state in the Republic.
His first paper on Crassulaceae, published jointly with Dr. N. L. Britton in 1903, contained descriptions of many new species. This was followed two years later by a joint systematic treatment of the entire family as represented in North America. Subsequently, up to 1927, he published many other papers upon the American members of this group, on which he was the acknowledged authority. Rose's studies of the Cactaceae found expression similarly. His special interest in this family appears to have developed principally through field-work in the mountains of Mexico.
His first paper appeared in 1907 and during the next two years about a dozen more were published, several of them written in collaboration with Britton. In 1912 Rose was furloughed from his position as associate curator in the Museum (to which he had been promoted in 1905) to accept appointment as research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for the purpose of preparing, in collaboration with Britton, a monographic treatment of the Cactaceae of the world. Setting about this task with characteristic patience, quiet enthusiasm, and thoroughness, he visited Europe at once, to study historic museum material and to acquaint himself with the species cultivated in all the important gardens.
In 1913 he collected in the West Indies. Between 1914 and 1918 he made four trips of exploration, covering a large part of South America and assembling an extraordinarily rich collection of herbarium material and of living plants. The final results of this extended investigation are contained in a beautifully illustrated monograph of four volumes by Britton and Rose entitled The Cactaceae (1919 - 23). This is an exceedingly important treatise, not only because it presents a well-considered new classification of this difficult family, but also because it has been influential in bringing into present general favor a fascinating and intricate group of plants which are almost exclusively American.
In 1923 Rose returned to the National Herbarium as associate curator, and besides continuing his studies of succulents undertook, again jointly with Britton, a revision of the North American leguminous plants of the families Mimosaceae and Caesalpiniaceae, the results of which have mostly appeared since his death.
His published work includes nearly 200 titles, among them many important papers written in association with no fewer than twelve botanists. This spirit of cooperation was an outstanding well-recognized characteristic, a reflection of his invariable tolerance, helpfulness, and remarkably even temperament, and a judicial attitude which though deliberately critical was always friendly and unbiased. Despite rapidly failing strength he continued steadily at work to the very day of his death.
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Connections
On August 8, 1888, Rose married Lou Beatrice Sims, of Delphi, Indiana, the daughter of Joseph Allen Sims, and Susanna (Hawkins) Sims. He was the father of five children, four of whom, with their mother, survived him.