Botanical Society of America
| Abbreviation | BSA |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1893 |
| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Headquarters | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Members | 3,059[1] |
| Andrea Wolfe (2017–2020) | |
President Elect | Linda Watson (2018–2021) |
| Budget | $1.63 million[2] |
| Website | www |
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) represents professional and amateur botanists, researchers, educators and students in over 80 countries of the world. It functions as a United States nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership society.[3]
History
[edit]The society was first established in 1893 as an outgrowth from the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at a meeting in Rochester, New York, on August 22, 1892.[4] The organizing principles of the society were the enhancement of the study of plants in North America and to professionalize such efforts.[5] In 1906, the organization merged with the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology and the American Mycological Society.[6]
Sections
[edit]The society has 16 special interest sections:
Former presidents
[edit]Former presidents of the society have included:
- William Trelease - Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the first president of the society
- Nathaniel Lord Britton - Cofounder of the New York Botanical Garden
- Margaret Clay Ferguson - Head of the Department of Botany at Wellesley College and the first female president of the society[7]
- William Francis Ganong - Professor of Botany, Smith College and historian and cartographer of New Brunswick
- Albert S. Hitchcock - Chief Botanist for the USDA
- William Chambers Coker - Founder of the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina
- Katherine Esau - National Medal of Science recipient and namesake of the Katherine Esau Award in structural and developmental biology
- Vernon Cheadle - Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
- G. Ledyard Stebbins − evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Davis
- Peter H. Raven - Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Loren Rieseberg - Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia
Publications
[edit]The society publishes the following scientific journals:
- American Journal of Botany, since 1914
- Plant Science Bulletin, since 1955
- Applications in Plant Sciences, since 2009
References
[edit]- ↑ "A Summary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Treasurers report July 2012 take 2" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2017.
- ↑ "Home". www.botany.org. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
- ↑ Tippo, Oswald (1958). "The Early History of the Botanical Society of America". Fifty Years of Botany. New York: McGraw-Hill. Retrieved 16 September 2012 from Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ↑ Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty (April 20, 2006), "One hundred years of American botany: a short history of the Botanical Society of America", American Journal of Botany, vol. 93, no. 7, pp. 942–952, doi:10.3732/ajb.93.7.942, archived from the original on February 11, 2016.
- ↑ "An Historical Overview of the BSA". Archived from the original on February 4, 2007.
- ↑ Rudolph, Emanuel D. (1982). "Women in Nineteenth Century American Botany; A Generally Unrecognized Constituency". American Journal of Botany. 69 (8): 1353. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1982.tb13382.x. JSTOR 2442761.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Archive of Plant Science Bulletin
- Publications by the Botanical Society of America at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
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- Botanical Society of America
- Professional associations based in the United States
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Natural Science Collections Alliance members
- Non-profit organizations based in St. Louis
- 501(c)(3) organizations
- Scientific organizations established in 1893
- 1893 establishments in New York (state)
- Botany in North America