Clair Alan Brown (August 16, 1903 - 1982) was an American botanist.

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He was born in Port Allegany, PA to Charles Melvin and Jennie H. Burrows. He obtained his bachelor's degree with quotation from the New York State College of Forestry in 1925, his Master of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1926, and his doctorate in 1934. He married Maude Nichols on September 4, 1926. (She died in 1962.)

He went to the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he taught botany beginning in 1944. He served as an adviser to several industries, including oil, paper and wood fiber.

Some publications

The standard author abbreviation C.A.Br. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

• With Donovan Stewart Correll (1908–1983) Ferns and Fern Allies Trees & Shrubs. 1942
• Louisiana Trees & Shrubs. 1945
• Vegetation of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 1959
• Palynological Techniques. 1960
• Wildflowers of Louisiana & Adjoining States. Ed. Louisiana State University Press. 259 pp. ISBN 0-8071-0780-8, 1980

Honors

Member of numerous scientific societies, he was appointed president of honour of the 78º extraordinary session of the Société Botanique of France.

• 1952: Scholarship Guggenheim

Sources

• Allen G. Debus (dir.) (1968). World Who's Who in Science. To Biographical Dictionary of Remarkable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Marquis-Who's Who (Chicago) : xvi + 1855 pp.

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