Background
Blake, Sidney Fay was born on August 31, 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Raymond and Harriot Elsie (Southworth) Blake.
Blake, Sidney Fay was born on August 31, 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Raymond and Harriot Elsie (Southworth) Blake.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1913, Master of Arts, 1913, Doctor of Philosophy, 1917.
In 1912, he received a bachelor"s degree from Harvard University, a master"s degree in 1913, and a Doctor of Philosophy in botany in 1917. The same year he received his Doctor of Philosophy, he started his botanical career at the Bureau of Plant Industry for the United States Department of Agriculture, and worked there till he died in 1959. Blake published only one work in 2 volumes, Flora of the World, the second volume of which was published after his death.
Fellow Linnean Society, London. Member American Botanical Society, American Society Plant Taxonomists (president 1943), California Botanical Society, Washington Academy Science, Biological Society Washington (recording secretary since 1923), Botanical Society Washington, Washington Biologists’ Field.
Married Doris Mildred Holmes, May 4, 1918.