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Shanks, Royal Eastman

Subject ID: 28249

Last Name: Shanks
First Name: Royal
Middle Names: Eastman
Birth Date: 11 November 1912
Birth Place: Ada, Ohio
Death Date: 4 August 1962
Death Place: San Jose, Costa Rica
Gender: male
Notes: Portrait in HI portrait collection. Professor of Botany, University of Tennessee; Ph.D. at Ohio State under Homer Sampson, but an intellectual son of Transeau.

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Alternate Names

  • Shanks, R. E.
  • Shanks, Royal Eastman

Specialties

Botany, Plant Ecology