Arthur Johnson Eames (October 10, 1881 – February 12, 1969) was an American botanist who spent over 50 years as faculty member and emeritus professor of botany at
Cornell University
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, known for his work on
flower anatomy and
plant morphology
Phytomorphology is the study of the physical form and external structure of plants.Raven, P. H., R. F. Evert, & S. E. Eichhorn. ''Biology of Plants'', 7th ed., page 9. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2005). . This is usually considered distinct from pl ...
. He served as president of the
Botanical Society of America in 1938, was a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, and received an honorary
LL.D. from the
University of Glasgow
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in 1950.
Life
Eames was born in
Framingham, Massachusetts
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and attended
Harvard University
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, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1908, a master's degree in 1910, and a PhD in 1912. He joined the faculty of Cornell that year. In the 1920s he was the botanist sent to
Tonga
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with
William C. McKern and
Edward Winslow Gifford who were from the
University of California
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. These three made up one of the four teams of the
Bayard Dominick Expedition.
An Introduction to Polynesian Anthropology
Te Rangi Hiroa, The Bayard Dominick Expeditions, p45-, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1945, Honolulu
Eames retired in 1949. His works include the textbooks ''Plant Anatomy'' (1925); ''Morphology of Vascular Plants: The Lower Groups'' (1936); and ''The Morphology of Angiosperms'' (1961).
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1881 births
1969 deaths
People from Framingham, Massachusetts
Harvard University alumni
Cornell University faculty
20th-century American botanists