Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946

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Name (Latin)
Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946
Date of birth
1865-12-27
Date of death
1946-01-18
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 33644060
Wikidata: Q3133468
Library of congress: n 91110998
Sources of Information
  • nuc91-11090: His The advantage of planting heavy cotton seed [MI] 1907(hdg. on DNAL rept.: Webber, Herbert J.; usage: Herbert J. Webber)
  • The improvement of cotton, 1900?:t.p. (H.J. Webber; U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
  • LC database, 9-17-96(hdg.: Webber, Herbert J., 1865-1946; usage: Herbert John Webber)
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Wikipedia description:

Herbert John Webber (December 27, 1865 – January 18, 1946) was an American plant physiologist, professor emeritus of sub-tropical horticulture, first director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, and the third curator of the University of California Citrus Variety Collection. Webber was the author of several publications on horticulture, member of numerous professional horticultural and agricultural associations. He coined the word "clone" in 1903 and was the first to use it to describe a colony of organisms derived asexually from a single progenitor.

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