Flora Hawaiiensis: Book Six By Otto Degener And Isa Degener New
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Flora Hawaiiensis: Book Six by Otto Degener, Sc. D and Isa Degener Dr. Rer. Nat. New illlustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Unpaginated. Degener was born May 13, 1899, in East Orange, New Jersey. Degener graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts Amherst). Intending to spend a year as a tourist, he arrived in Hawaii but decided to stay. He received his MA from the University of Hawai`i in 1922 and his PhD from Columbia University. He taught botany at the University of Hawai`i from 1925 to 1927, and was the first naturalist for what are now Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park. In 1932, Degener started the first book on Hawaiian plants published since that of William Hillebrand in 1888. It was titled Flora Hawaiiensis, and published in several volumes over his lifetime. On January 10, 1953, he married the botanist Isa Irmgard Hansen, whom he met in Berlin in 1952. They collected plants together in the Hawaiian archipelago. After 1956 Isa Degener was a coauthor for Flora Hawaiiensis. Amy B. H. Greenwell assisted in some of the volumes, and left her property as a botanical garden. He collected over 36,000 different species and preserved some 900 threatened and endangered plants. His specimens were left to the New York Botanical Garden. The front broad has some minor stains as well as wears on the headband and spine. Otherwise, the pages are trimmed on the fore edge and are clean throughout.
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