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C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh
1855–1932
Best known for studying toxic plants and tiny freshwater life, this American scientist spent his career asking practical questions about the natural world. His work ranged from dangerous locoweed on western rangelands to plankton and field research in the Panama Canal Zone.
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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, Charles Dwight Marsh was an American botanist and biologist whose work connected careful observation with real-world problems. He studied at Amherst College and later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Marsh became especially known for his work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he led field experiments on locoweed and other toxic plants that affected livestock. He also studied plankton, with a focus on copepods, and served as an honorary curator of that group at the U.S. National Museum.
His research took him beyond the laboratory. In the 1910s he worked on the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, and surviving field notebooks show the detail and range of his scientific interests. He died on April 23, 1932.