> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 93](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333232) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8985-1) LSID 8985-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6372221) QID Q6372221 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sax, Karl (1892-1973), American botanist; BS Washington State Coll. 1916, at Bussey Institution of Harvard University 1916; M.S. ib. 1917, in military service 1917-1919; at the Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 1920-1928; D.Sc. Bussey Inst. 1922; associate professor of plant cytology Arnold Arboretum and Bussey Institution 1928-1936; full professor 1936-1959, acting director (1946) and director of the Arnold Arboretum 1947-1954; worked mainly on cytology, genetics and horticulture; Dr. Sci. h.c. Univ. Maine 1971 **Abbreviated name**: *Sax* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sax*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 218 (b. 2 Nov 1892); Biol.-Dokum. 15: 7870; BJI 2: 152; Bossert p. 350; IH 1 (ed. 4): 85; Langman p. 676; NCAB 58: 511; Tucker 3: 269. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men Sci. ed. 3: 600. 1921, ed. 4: 858. 1927, ed. 5: 976. 1933, ed. 6: 1238. 1938, ed. 7: 1550. 1944, ed. 8: 2170. 1949., ed. 9. 2: 983. 1955, ed. 10: 3554. 1961, ed. 11: 4674. 1967, ed. 12: 5524. 1972; Hortscience 8(6): 519. 1973 (obit., portr.); Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 58: 511. 1979; Who's who Amer. 22: 1927. 1942-1943, 23: 1861. 1944-1945, 24: 2071. 1946-1947, 25: 2169. 1948-1949, 26: 2413. 1950-1951, 27: 2129. 1952-1953, 28: 2348. 1954-1955, 29: 2253. 1956-1957, 30: 2423. 1958-1959, 31: 2533. 1960-1961, 32: 2736. 1962-1963, 33. 1964-1965, 34: 1865. 1966-1967; Who was who Amer. 6: 360. 1974-1976; World biogr. 1-2, p. 4215. 1948. - Brown, C.L., Bull. Amer. Ass. bot. Gard. Arbor. 8(1): 35. 1974 (obit., portr.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 20, 136. 1969. - Howard, R.A., J. Arnold Arb. 53(3): 333-343. 1974 (main biogr., bibl., portr.). - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 297, 347. 1970; Arnoldia 32: 2-20. 1972 (The Arboretum administration: an opinionated history). - Swanson, C.P., Genetics 83(1): 1-4. 1976 (obit., portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 30. 1935, 2: 30, 330, 405. 1936, 3: 291, 292, 294, 300. 1937, 4: 162. 1936, 6: 135, 234, 262. 1939, 7: 44. 1943.