Charles Frederick Millspaugh
Botanist who illustrated his own works
Charles Frederick Millspaugh was an American botanist and physician, born at Ithaca, N.Y., and educated at Cornell and the New York Homeopathic Medical College. He received his medical degree in 1881 and practiced medicine in Binghamton, New York until 1890. From 1891 to 1892, he taught botany at West Virginia University. In 1894 he was appointed as the newly established Field Museum of Natural History's first Curator of Botany, a position he held until his death. From 1897 to 1923 he was also professor of medical botany at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College and lectured on botany at the University of Chicago. Millspaugh conducted explorations in the United States and Mexico, the West Indies, Brazil, and other parts of South America, and was the author of American Medical Plants (1887); Flora of West Virginia (1896); Contribution I-III to the Coastal and Plain Flora of Yucatan (1895-1898); "Flora of Santa Carolina Island" (1923); and many articles in scientific and popular journals. He was a skilled scientific illustrator and artist, producing the majority of the illustrations for his publications." The genera Millspaughia B.L.Rob. and Neomillspaughia S.F.Blake (Polygonaceae) were named in his honor.
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- Georgina Burne Hetley Parent
Artworks by this artist (180 total)
- Medicinal Plants Pl.119 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.029 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.011 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.172 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.141 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.105 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.163 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.055 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.054 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.159 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.079 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.097 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.129 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.124 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.117 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.139 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.144 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.156 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.016 1892
- Medicinal Plants Pl.093 1892