Assignment 4

Henry Nicholas Bolander was an American botanist. He was the state botanist for California in 1864. He attended a Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio but never became a minister. His neighbor introduced him to botany while he was teaching English and German at a school. He then became ill and upon the advice of his doctor, moved to a different climate in California. At this time he became the state Botanist until the job was discontinued. He published two books, A Catalogue of Plants Growing in the Vicinity of San Francisco in 1870 along with chapters on the different grass in California in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. He traveled to many different countries to study the plants there including Guatemala, Chile and Peru. After his travels, he began teaching English and botany at a school in Oregon until he passed away in 1897.

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http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/BOLANDER.html