Palser, Barbara Frances   (1916 - 2008)

Born in in Worchester, USA, on 2 June, 1916; died in Northampton, USA, 15 March, 2008.

Botanist and plant anatomist of many talents, editor, writer of handbooks, and adviser of students. Her Ericaceae collections reflect her national and international travels, with specimens ranging from the United States to New Zealand, India, and Australia.

She also taught and did research at Duke University, University of Canterbury in New Zealand and University of Melbourne in Australia and spent many years after her retirement continuing her research at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA.

From instructor to professor botany, University of Chicago, 1942-1965;
- from associate professor to professor botany, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1965-1983;
- Visiting professor Duke Univ., Durham, North Carolina, fall 1962.
- Erskine fellow Univ. Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 1969.
- Director graduate program in botany, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1973-1980;
- Visiting Research Fellow Plant Cell Biology Unit, School of Botany University of Melbourne, Australia, 1985;
- Adjunct Professor botany, Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, after 1991.

Source: Extracted from:
https://prabook.com/web/barbara_f.palser/1694759
http://2016.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=647
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v40n1/v40n1-palser.htm
https://obits.masslive.com/us/obituaries/masslive/name/barbara-palser-obituary?id=13006488
Portrait Photo: seeking portrait

Collecting localities for 'Palser, B.F.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 191 specimens in Australian herbaria