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Bailey (WILLIAM WHITMAN an American)

WILLIAM WHITMAN, an American botanist, born in West Point, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1843. He was educated at Brown and Harvard, having been a pupil of Prof. Asa Gray. In 1867 he was botanist of the United States Geological Survey of the 40th parallel; in 1867-1869 assistant librarian of the Providence Athanæum. He was appointed Instructor in Botany at Brown University in 1877, and became professor there in 1881. He published "Botanical Collectors' Handbook" (1881); "Botanizing" (1899); "Poems" (1910). Died Feb. 20, 1914.