Education
He received his Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Wyoming then a Doctor of Philosophy from Washington University in Saint Louis.
He received his Bachelor and Master of Arts from the University of Wyoming then a Doctor of Philosophy from Washington University in Saint Louis.
He went on to be editor of the American Orchid Society Bulletin and during the war worked in Brazil on the rubber procurement project Foreign much of the 1950s he lived in Honduras and started the journal Ceiba there. After returning to the United States he worked for the Field Museum of Natural History starting in 1960 and from 1964 to 1973 served as departmental chairman
