Background
Tilden, Josephine Elizabeth was born in 1869 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Aldrich (Field) Tilden.
Tilden, Josephine Elizabeth was born in 1869 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Aldrich (Field) Tilden.
Studied and collected algae in Yellowstone Park, western United States and Canada, Hawaiian Islands, Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Minnesota Seaside Station, summers 1901-1907, Puget Sound Biological Graduate students, collecting algae in Australia and New Zealand, 1934, 35.
Professor botany, University of Minnesota, to 1938. Studied and collected algae in Yellowstone Park, western United States and Canada, Hawaiian Islands, Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Minnesota Seaside Station, summers 1901-1907, Puget Sound Biological Station, summer 1918. Delegate to 1st Pan-Pacific Science Conference, Honolulu, 1920.
2d Pan-Pacific Congress, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia, 1923.
3d Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 1926. 1st Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Congress, Honolulu, 1924.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geography Society. Member Botanical Society American, American Society Naturalists, American Microscopical Society, National Geography Society, Bulletin Torrey Botany.