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C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh
1855–1932
Best remembered for studying poisonous plants and freshwater life, this American botanist spent years turning field research into practical science. His work linked academic biology with real problems faced by farmers and livestock owners.
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Special report on diseases of cattle
by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward
About the author
Born in Hadley, Massachusetts, on December 20, 1855, he became an American botanist whose career moved between teaching, research, and government science. He earned an A.B. from Amherst College in 1877 and later completed a Ph.D. in zoology and botany at the University of Chicago in 1904.
He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry, where he was especially known for field experiments on locoweed and other toxic plants affecting grazing animals. He also studied plankton and served as an honorary curator of Copepoda at the U.S. National Museum, showing how wide his scientific interests were.
His research took him into the field as well as the laboratory. In 1912, he joined work connected with the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, collecting freshwater plankton, and he published books and reports including The plankton of Lake Winnebago and Green Lake, The loco-weed disease of the plains, and Stock-poisoning plants of the range. He died on April 23, 1932.