Chamberlain, Charles Joseph

Chamberlain, Charles Joseph
born Feb. 23, 1863, Sullivan, Ohio, U.S.
died Feb. 5, 1943, Chicago, Ill.

U.S. botanist.

His research into the structure and life cycles of primitive plants (cycads) enabled him to suggest a course of evolutionary development for the egg and embryo of seed plants (spermatophytes) and to speculate about a cycad origin for flowering plants (angiosperms). He organized and directed the botanical laboratories at the University of Chicago (1897–1931), where, with plants collected in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Cuba, he created the world's foremost collection of living cycads.

Charles Chamberlain, 1925

By courtesy of the Harshberger Collection, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh

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▪ American botanist
born Feb. 23, 1863, near Sullivan, Ohio, U.S.
died Feb. 5, 1943, Chicago
 U.S. botanist whose research into the morphology and life cycles of the cycads, a primitive gymnosperm family possessing structural features found in both ferns and conifers, enabled him to postulate a course of evolutionary development for the spermatophyte (seed plant) ovule and embryo and led to speculation about a cycad origin for angiosperms (flowering plants).

      Chamberlain organized and directed the botanical laboratories at the University of Chicago (1897–1931), where he became professor of plant morphology and cytology (1915). With plants collected in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Cuba, he created in the university greenhouses the world's foremost collection of living cycads, which remained unsurpassed until a decade after his death. With the U.S. botanist John Coulter he prepared textbooks on the morphology of spermatophytes (1901), angiosperms (1903), and gymnosperms (1910). He also wrote The Living Cycads (1919) and Gymnosperms, Structure and Evolution (1935).

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