> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 266](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265463) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123681697) QID Q123681697 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Boerker, Richard Hans Douai (1887-?), American botanist, born at Brooklyn, New York, at Boys' High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., A.D. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 1909, worked as a graduate student in forestry at the University of Michigan 1909-1911, M.S. Forestry ib. 1911, also 1910-1911 forester in the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, in California 1911-1914 engaged in forest reconnaissance, graduate student in botany and silvics at Univ. Nebraska 1914-1915, Dr. phil. 1915 (thesis 1916). **Abbreviated name**: *R.H. Boerker* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 209 (b. 19 Oct 1887, Brooklyn, N.Y.). #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men Sci. 4: 98. 1927. ### Publications ##### n.21.819. Ecological investigations **Title** *Ecological investigations* upon the germination and early *growth of forest trees*... A thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate College in the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of doctor of Philosophy, Department of Botany... Lincoln, Nebraska January 1, 1916. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ecol. invest. forest trees*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Jan 1916 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[i, t.p.\], 1-89, *pl. 1-5* (uncol. phot.), \[i\* vita\]. *Copy*: L.