Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer
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Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer (1870–1942) was an American
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 botanist and plant collector.

Elmer was born in 1870 in Van Dyne, Wisconsin
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, United States
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. He was educated at the Washington Agricultural College, and earned a M.Sc.
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 from Stanford University
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 in 1903. He made extensive plant collections in the Philippines
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 from 1904 to 1927, and also in California
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, Borneo
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, and New Guinea
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. He was editor of Leaflets of Philippine Botany, where he published more than 1,500 new species.

Elmer died on April 17, 1942, in Manila
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, the Philippines
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