NEIL ARTHUR HARRIMAN (1938-2018)

摘要

Just as this issue was going to press, we received word of the death of Neil Harriman, who served as editor of The Michigan Botanist from 1998 to 2005. Neil died on December 7 after an extended illness. He was bom on August 1,1938, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. He did his undergraduate work at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and received his Ph.D. in Biology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 1965. Neil joined the Biology Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1964, primarily to teach botany classes and do plant taxonomy research. Neil remained at UWO until his retirement in May 1998. In addition to his dedication as a teacher and his research, which resulted in the publication of numerous scientific articles, Neil grew the UWO herbarium from just a few specimens to its current size of 125,000. After his retirement in 1998, the university named the herbarium in his honor. We expect to publish a fuller account of Neil's life and work in a future issue of The Great Lakes Botanist.