Lyster Hoxie Dewey
Lyster Hoxie Dewey (1865–1944) was an American botanist from Michigan.
He was born in Cambridge, Michigan.[1] In 1888, he graduated from Michigan State Agricultural College where, for the next two years, he taught botany.
Career[]
Dewey was an assistant botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1890 to 1902, and thereafter botanist in charge of fiber investigations and fiber plants research at USDA's Arlington Experimental Farm.
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).
Publications[]
His publications comprised bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture, on:[2]
- the production of fiber from flax, hemp (Cannabis species), sisal, and manila plants
- the origin of cotton and classification of the varieties of cotton plants (Gossypium species).
- investigations on grasses and invasive troublesome weeds.
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.
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References[]
- ^ WashingtonPost.com: "Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground", by Manuel Roig-Franzia, 13 May 2010 . accessed 04.22.2017.
- ^ Lyster Hoxie Dewey: Fiber production in the western hemisphere, United states printing office, Washington, 1943
- ^ IPNI. L.H.Dewey.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty
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