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Herbert Louis Mason

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and jointly in U.C. Berkeley's botany department, Mason was appointed in 1933 assistant curator and instructor, in 1934 associate curator and assistant professor, in 1938 (full) curator and associate professor, in 1941 herbarium director and (full) professor, retiring in 1963 with emeritus status.
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in an expedition to the Magdalena Basin of Colombia, sponsored by the Associates in Tropical Biogeography. The objective was to study periodic phenomena under tropical conditions without marked seasons ... The State Division of Fish and Game commissioned a botanical survey of California wetlands
209:. After the end of the war, Herbert Mason returned to Stanford University and received his bachelor's degree there in 1921. He became a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley) and received an M.A. there in 1923. From 1923 to 1925 he taught at 204:
After graduating from high school, Herbert Mason and his identical twin brother matriculated at Stanford University. Their education was interrupted when they both volunteered for military service in WW I and served in a U.S. Army hospital in
213:. From 1925 to 1931 Mason was employed as an associate in Willis L. Jepson's Phenogamic Laboratory. In 1932 he received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. His thesis committee consisted of W. L. Jepson (as committee chair), 529: 319:. He was recalled from retirement to serve as director of this project, which he found richly rewarding, and which has had an important impact on science education in the United States. 811: 315:
Shortly before his retirement, Mason became one of three founders of the Elementary School Science Project, funded by the National Science Foundation and operated out of the
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he married Lucile Roush (1896–1986), who was a student along with him at both Stanford and Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley with a thesis on
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The years of Mason's directorship were a time of rapid growth for Jepson Herbarium. From 1935 to 1963 he was a member of the board of editors of the journal
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The Crustaceous Corallines of the Pacific Coast of North America. PhD diss. Thesis manuscript in the Library of the University of California
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In 1949 he became one of the founders of the Regional Parks Association, which has the stated goal of protecting natural resource in the
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This 1978 article incorrectly indicates as 1932 the year in which Herbert L. Mason married Lucile Roush — the correct year is 1931.
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A Pleistocene flora from the Tomales Bay region and its bearing on the history of the coastal pine forests of California
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He collected plants in California, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Colombia, and Mexico's
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carried out by Mason and his graduate students. It culminated in the production of
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Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches
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Ornduff, Robert; Constance, Lincoln (1994). "Herbert L. Mason 1896-1994".
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The University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
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University and Jepson Hebaria, University of California, Berkeley
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The Ecological Society of America's History and Records (esa.org)
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"Five New Species of 313: 255: 524: 522: 520: 518: 516: 514: 512: 510: 508: 282:, Mason wrote the section on the phlox family 573:"Botany at Berkeley, The First Hundred Years" 8: 481:Ornduff, Robert; Constance, Lincoln (1994). 812:University of California, Berkeley faculty 230:, where he was assisted for many years by 22: 807:University of California, Berkeley alumni 642:Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States 547: 545: 543: 415:Mason, Herbert Louis (1 January 1957). 367: 276:Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States 270:(1957), doubtless his best-known work. 534:University of California, In Memoriam 375: 373: 371: 7: 444:A Flora of the Marshes of California 418:A Flora of the Marshes of California 274:For volume 3 of the 4-volume series 268:A Flora of the Marshes of California 90:A Flora of the Marshes of California 421:. University of California Press. 125:University of California, Berkeley 80:University of California, Berkeley 14: 304:were scientifically undescribed. 759: 442:Löve, Askell (1958). "Review of 402:Evolution Tree, academictree.org 792:20th-century American botanists 738:International Plant Names Index 448:The Quarterly Review of Biology 257:In 1949 and 1950, Mason joined 16:For British film director, see 817:American expatriates in France 720:"Obituary. David Thomas Mason" 1: 333:Western Washington University 483:"Herbert L. Mason 1896-1994" 399:"Herbert Louis Mason, Ph.D." 173:Author abbrev. (botany) 571:Constance, Lincoln (1978). 833: 802:Stanford University alumni 623:Regional Parks Association 552:Smith, Charles L. (2005). 15: 687:"Herbert L. Mason papers" 325:Skagit County, Washington 181: 96: 317:Lawrence Hall of Science 554:"Mason, Herbert Louis" 446:by Herbert L. Mason". 321: 272: 251:San Francisco Bay Area 65:Bellingham, Washington 47:Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 704:Mason, L. R. 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Index

Herbert Mason
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Bellingham, Washington
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
Botany
Plant biosystematics
Phytogeography
Jepson Herbarium
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Willis L. Jepson
Charles Bixler Heiser
Robert Ornduff
Author abbrev. (botany)
Beaune, France
Mills College
Ralph Works Chaney
Charles Lewis Camp
Jepson Herbarium
Madroño
Annetta Mary Carter
Ethel Katherine Crum
Helen Sharsmith
East Bay
San Francisco Bay Area
A. H. Miller
R. A. Stirton
LeRoy Abrams
Polemoniaceae

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