Background
Hutchins, Lee Milo was born on April 21, 1888 in Fennville, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry Hudson and Harriet C. (Robertson) Hutchins.
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Lee Milo Hutchins
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Student of University Montpelier, 1919. Student Wageningen and Paris, 1930.
Career
Assistant pathologist, bureau plant industry, soils and agricultural engineering United States Department of Agriculture, 1914-1917, through grades to senior pathologist, 1919-1941, in charge field laboratories fruit disease investigation, 1921-1941, head pathologist in charge division forest pathology, 1941-1953, chief, division forest disease research Forest Service, 1945-1955, collaborator in United States Department of Agriculture, pathologist with Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) of United Nations in Yugoslavia, 1956, with Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 1957. Investigator diseases of cacao American Cocoa Research Institute and Interam. Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 1958-1976.
Engaged in research, Costa Rica, 1976-1978.
Collaborator United States Department of Agriculture.
Achievements
Membership
Served as Lieutenant Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1917-1919. Received Superior Service award from United States Department of Agriculture, 1955. Fellow American Phytopath.
Society (president 1942).
Member Botanical Society, Botanical Society Washington (president 1952), Society Foresters, Plant Physiologists, Society Horticultural Science, Society of Company Pathology (France), French Botanical Society, Horticultural Society France (honorary), Washington Academy Science, Sigma Xi. Club: Cosmos (Washington).
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April 13, 1978 (aged 89) -
Resting place
Buried San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San Jose, Costa Rica. -
Nationality
American