Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
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Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918)
In 1905, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Office of Seed and Plant Introduction recruited Frank Meyer, a native of Holland who had immigrated to America in 1901, to gather economically useful plants in China. Through an arrangement between Charles Sprague Sargent, the Director of the Arboretum and David Fairchild, Chairman of the USDA Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, Meyer was to send to the Arboretum trees and shrubs of ornamental value along with images of his travels. More about Meyer.
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