Career
Born April 21, 1862, in Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, he gained a Bachelor from the University of Missouri in 1884, and joined the United States Department of Agriculture Section of Plant Pathology seven years later. He left the United States Department of Agriculture in 1907 to found his own horticultural business in Alexandria, Virginia, but rejoined the Department in 1909. In 1913 Dorsett began his first foreign expedition, to Brazil, with Archibald Dixon Shamel and Wilson Popenoe.
Later expeditions took him to Panama, Manchuria, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
His agricultural exploration work culminated in the 1928-1931 Dorsett-Morse Agricultural Exploration Expedition to Japan, of Korea, and China. Returning to the United States of America in 1932, he retired from the United States Department of Agriculture, but joined the Allison Vincent Armour agricultural expedition to the British West Indies and Guianas the same year.
Dorsett died aged 80 in a Washington, Doctorate. C. nursing home on April 1, 1943. Ulmus macrocarpa various dorsettii.
