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Lyster H. Dewey

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Lyster Hoxie Dewey (1865–1944) was an American botanist from Michigan.

Early years

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Dewey was born in Cambridge, Michigan on March 14, 1865.[1] In 1888, he graduated from Michigan State Agricultural College where, for the next two years, he taught botany.

Career

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Dewey was hired as an assistant botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture in 1890. He served in that role until 1903 when he became the botanist in charge of fiber investigations and fiber plants research at USDA's Arlington Experimental Farm.[2]

In 1911, he was the U.S. representative to the International Fibre Congress, held in Surabaya on Java island, in the Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia).[citation needed]

Publications

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His publications comprised bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture, on:[3]

He wrote about growing exotically named varieties of hemp on USDA research land in Virginia known as the Arlington Experimental Farm, site of the present day Pentagon.

Personal Diaries

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Dewey began keeping personal diaries in 1896 and wrote in them nearly daily until his death in 1944.[4]

Taxonomist abbreviation

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References

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  1. ^ WashingtonPost.com: "Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground", by Manuel Roig-Franzia, May 13, 2010. Accessed April 22, 2017.
  2. ^ Admin. "Timeline - Lyster Dewey". Lyster Dewey Diaries. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  3. ^ Lyster Hoxie Dewey: Fiber production in the western hemisphere, United states printing office, Washington, 1943
  4. ^ Admin. "Lyster Dewey Diaries: What's Inside?". Lyster Dewey Diaries. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  L.H.Dewey.
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