Paul Carpenter Standley
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Paul Carpenter Standley was an American botanist
Botany
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Standley was born in Avalon, Missouri
Avalon, Missouri
Avalon is an unincorporated community in southern Livingston County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route H about one mile east of U.S. Route 65 and ten miles south of Chillicothe. The community was founded in 1845 and is named after the mythic Isle of Avalon of...

. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...

 and New Mexico State College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907, and received a masters degree from New Mexico State College in 1908, where he remained as an assistant from 1908-1909. He took a position at the United States National Museum from 1909 to 1928. In the Spring of 1928 he took a position at the Field Museum of Natural History
Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as the Museum Campus Chicago...

, where he worked until 1950. After his retirement in 1950, he moved to the Escuela Agricola Panamericana, where he worked in the library and herbarium and did field work until 1956, when he stopped doing botanical work. In 1957 he moved to Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa , and commonly referred as Tegus , is the capital of Honduras and seat of government of the Republic, along with its twin sister Comayagüela. Founded on September 29, 1578 by the Spanish, it became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto...

, Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

, where he died on the afternoon of June 2, 1963.

He contributed to the Trees and Shrubs of Mexico, Flora of Guatemala, and Flora of Costa Rica.
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