Frederic Edward Lenient

Frederic Edward Clements is a American Botaniste , born the September 16th 1874 with Lincoln and dead the July 26th 1945.

He is the son of Ephraim G. Lenient and Mary born Scoggin. He obtains his Bachelor off Sciences at the university of Bebraska in 1894, his Master off Arts in 1896 and his pH. D. in 1898. It Marie with Schwartz Edict the May 30th 1899.

Of 1894 with 1906, he is instructor and professor of Botanique at the university of the Nebraska, then of 1906 with 1907, professor of vegetable physiology, then of 1907 with 1917, professor and director of the department of botany of the university of the Minnesota, finally of 1917 with 1941, botanist of the State and in load of ecological research in Carnegie Institut of Washington. Starting from 1941, it directs the ecological research laboratory. It takes part in work of the office of protection of the grounds starting from 1934. It obtains an honorary doctorate in 1940.

Member of the American Association for the Advancement off Science, of the National Academy off Sciences, of the Botanical Society off America (of which he is vice-president in 1905, adviser of 1906 with 1910) as well as many others learned societies. Lenient is in particular the author of:

with Nathan Roscoe Pound (1870-1964) The phytogeography off Nebraska (1898);
Histogenesis off Caryophyllales (1899);
Latin Greek and in Biological Nomenclature (1902);
Herbaria Formationum Coloradensium (1902);
Development and Structure off Vegetation (1904);
Research Methods in Ecology (1905);
Seedling Physiology and Ecology (1907);
Cryptogamae Formationum Coloradensium (1908);
Minnesota Mushrooms (1910);
with Edith Gertrude Lenient (1877-1971) Rocky Mountain Flowers (1913);
Seedling Succession (1916);
Seedling Indicators (1920);
Ventilation and Air-Content (1921);
with Harvey Monroe Hall (1874-1932), The Phylogenetic Method in Taxonomy (1923);
with Frances Louise Experimental Length, pollination; year outline off the ecology off flowers and insects (1923);
with John Ernest Weaver (1884-1966), Experimental Vegetation (1924);
with Glenn Warren Goldsmith (1886-1943), The phytometer method in ecology; the seedling and community ace instruments (1924);
Seedling Succession and Indicators (1928);
with Edith Lenient, Flower Families and Ancestors (1928).

Source

Allen G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.

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