William Whitman Bailey

William Whitman Bailey is a chemist and a American Botaniste , born the February 22nd 1843 with West Point in the State of New York and dead the February 20th 1914 with Providence (Rhode Island).

He is more the young child of the chemistry teacher and geology to the Military academy of West Point Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811-1857) and of Maria Slaughter. At the 9 years age, his/her mother and her sister die in a nauvrage, experiment which will mark it all its life and which will undermine its health.

He leaves West Point in 1857, after the death of his father, and goes to Providence where he enters in University Grammar School. In 1860, it enters to Brown University. In 1862, it briefly engages in the 10th regiment of volunteers of Rhode Island during the American Civil War. But its health is bad and it returns to Providence at the end of three months.

It is graduate ( Bachelor off Philosophy ) in 1864 and works as chemist-assistant for Chemical Laboratory until in 1866 then in Manchester Print Works. Later, he works as assistant with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology. During the summers 1875,1876 and 1879, he attends the courses of summer of the Université Harvard.

In 1867, it obtains the station of Botaniste in the geological mission of exploration of the fortieth parallel led by Clarence King (1842-1901). But its precarious health prevents it from leaving the following year, Sereno Watson (1826-1892) replaces it then. Bailey starts to give private lessons of botany in 1877 and obtains a post of professor of botany in 1881, function which it preserves until in 1906, date on which it resigns for health reason. It Marie in 1881 with the pedagog and writer Eliza Randall Simmons, union including to be born two children.

It receives a honorary Doctorat in right of the Université of New Brunswick (1900) and a honorary Master off Arts of the Université Brown (1903).

Bailey particularly studies the pollination of the plants as well as the anomalous cellular developments. It makes appear many scientific publications but also poem. He is member various learned societies of which the American Association for the Advancement off Science. He bequeaths his important Herbier to the Brown university.

List partial of the publications

1881 : The Botanical Collector' S Notebook .
1895 : Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers .
1897 : New England Wild Flowers .
1897 : Botanical Notebook .
1898 : Botanizing .

Source

Keir B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco & Lorne F. Hammond (to dir.) (1997). Biographical dictionary off American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists . Greenwood Close (Westport): xix + 937 p.

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