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|name = Wilbur Howard Duncan |image = Wilbur Howard Duncan.JPG |image_size = 125 |alt = |caption = |birth_date = October 15, 1910 |birth_place = Buffalo, New York, United States |death_date = March 25, 2005 |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = American |fields = botanist |workplaces = |alma_mater = Indiana University, Duke University |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = W.H.Duncan |influences = |influenced = |awards = |religion = |footnotes = }} Wilbur Howard Duncan (October 15, 1910 – March 25, 2005)[1][2] was a botany professor at the University of Georgia for 40 years where he oversaw an expansion in the school's herbarium collection and described three new plant species. Duncan also authored several books on plant species of the Eastern and Southeastern United States. BiographyDuncan was born in Buffalo, New York, on October 15, 1910.[1] He received his bachelor's and master's degrees, in 1932 and 1933, from Indiana University, then his PhD in botany from Duke University in 1938.[1] He then began a forty-year period in the faculty at the University of Georgia.[1] As Curator of the UGA Herbarium, he increased the collection size from 16,000 to 135,000 specimens.[2] He personally collected over thirty thousand specimens, which he shared with herbaria across the country.[1] During World War II, Duncan served in the United States Public Health Service, in which he earned the rank of Major.[1] His duties during this period included directing mosquito control for Charleston, South Carolina and serving as state entomologist for Kentucky.[3] Duncan was married for 64 years (from 1941 until his death) to botanist Marion Bennett Duncan, with whom he collaborated on several books, including Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.[1] Species describedDuncan is the botanical authority who first described three plant species: Quercus oglethorpensis, Trillium persistens, and Baptisia arachnifera.[2] All of these species are endangered. Associations and honorsDuncan was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1] Partial bibliography
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Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Duncan.htm|title=Collectors of the UNC Herbarium: Wilbur Howard Duncan (15 October 1910 – 25 March 2005)|publisher=University of North Carolina Herbarium|accessdate=August 1, 2009}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Wilbur Howard}}2. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Jean|author2=with information provided by Marion Duncan|date=May 2005|title=Wilbur H. Duncan: 1910–2005|journal=Bot Soc News|publisher=Georgia Botanical Society|location=Comer, Georgia|volume=79|issue=3|pages=1|url=http://www.gabotsoc.org/2005_may.pdf|accessdate=July 30, 2009}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://onlineathens.com/stories/102499/ath_1024990033.shtml|title=Wild about Wildflowers|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=October 24, 1999|work=Athen Banner-Herald|accessdate=August 3, 2009}} 14 : 1910 births|2005 deaths|American botanical writers|American male non-fiction writers|American botanists|American entomologists|Duke University alumni|Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science|Indiana University alumni|People from Athens, Georgia|Scientists from Buffalo, New York|University of Georgia faculty|Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)|Writers from Buffalo, New York |
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