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Dinsmore, John Edward (1862-1951)

Standard Form: Dinsm.

Area of Interest: Spermatophytes

Countries North American region: United States Western Asia: Syria, Jordan, Israel Associate(s) Chamberlain, Edward Blanchard (1878-1925) (co-collector) Meyers, Frederic Stanton (1902-) (co-collector) Biography American botanist in Palestine. John Edward Dinsmore worked as director of the American Colony Herbarium in Jerusalem and as honorary curator of the Post Herbarium in Beirut, Lebanon. He was responsible for undertaking further studies and collections in order to edit George E. Post's The Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai and he published the second edition in 1932-1933. Dinsmore also conducted a special study into Iris L. in the Near East, publishing The genus Iris in Syria and Palestine (1933).

Sources: F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1976-1998, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2), 5: 346-347. References Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 168; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 163; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 534;

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John Edward Dinsmore Birthdate:	November 17, 1862 Birthplace:	Winslow, Kennebec, ME, USA Death:	Died 1951 in Isreal Immediate Family: Son of John Dinsmore, Rev. and Catherine Dinsmore Husband of Mary Sybil Dinsmore Father of Rachel Cornelia Matson Brother of Nathan Cobb Dinsmore; Althea Chase Dinsmore; Katie Valentine Dinsmore and George Leon Dinsmore Managed by:	Jamie Dinsmore Last Updated:	January 14, 2015 https://www.geni.com/people/John-Dinsmore/6000000017783733395 accessdate=24 May 2016

ID: I081833 Name: John Edward Dinsmore Sex: M Birth: 17 NOV 1862 in Winslow, Kennebec Co., Maine 1 Death: 1951 in Jerusalem, Israel 2 3 Note: 1883 graduate of Bowdoin College. A teacher, resident of Auburn, ME in June, 1892, when he applied for a passport for his wife and himself. He applied for another passport in Oct. 1898 for himself, wife and child born the prior year. He was Principal of the School of the American Colony in Jerusalem and a botanist who founded a herbarium in Jerusalem.

J.E.Dinsmore of the American Colony in Jerusalem was active in Palestine and Syria in the first half of the 20 th century. He'd revised the edition of Post's Flora (1932-1933) ,and included all relevant data published since 1896. The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mbwheeler&id=I081833 accessdate=24 May 2016