Re: HIST: William Setchell
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HIST: William Setchell
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- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:33:10 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: HIPSource@aol.com
> Bill, I was waiting for you to write it up! Perhaps as an installment in
the
> What's in a Name series in ROOTS? I did one of those already on Alice
> Harding, one of my own heroines, and Donald Eaves is doing one that will
rock
> the casbah.
Bill and Aner,
William A. Setchell has already been the subject of a "Faces Behind the
Name" item in ROOTS, written by Phil Edinger and published in the Spring
'97 issue on p. 12. He mentions therein that Dr. Setchell became Professor
and Chairman of the Department of Botany at the University of California in
Berkeley at the age of 31 and established the University's Botanical
Garden, where he did extensive research on tobacco (though his specialty
was marine algae as indicated in Bill's posting to the List).
There is no indication in the article of the connection that led Brehm to
name his introduction for Dr. Setchell or that Setchell himself had any
interest in irises, although his colleagues at Berkeley, Profs. Mitchell
and Essig were major figures among the early iris hybridizers and Carl
Salbach, who operated out of Berkeley, was the introducer of WILLIAM A.
SETCHELL, the iris.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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