George Lincoln Goodale
1839–1923
American physician, botanist, and educator. AB, Amherst College, 1860; MD, Harvard, 1863. Practised medicine in Portland, Maine. Took part in the scientific survey of Maine and published on the survey’s botanical discoveries, 1862–3. Visited areas of botanical interest in California, 1866; in Europe, 1867. Professor, Bowdoin College, 1868. From 1870, studied botany with Asa Gray. Assistant professor, vegetable physiology, Harvard, 1873; professor of botany, 1878; director of the botanic garden, 1879; Fisher Professor of natural history, 1888–1909.
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ANB
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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