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'''Geneva Sayre''' (June 12, 1911 [[Guthrie Center, Iowa]] – May 26, 1992, [[Northhampton, Massachusetts]])<ref></ref> was a [[bryologist]] and bibliographer.<ref name=papers></ref><ref name=Steere></ref> She "pioneered bibliographical and historical bryology, a new field in the study, evaluation, and organization of the literature of bryology."<ref name=papers/>
==Biography==
Sayre graduated in 1933 with a bachelor's degree from [[Grinnell College]], where she was taught botany by [[Henry Conard]]. She graduated in 1935 with an M.A. from the [[University of Wyoming]] and in 1938 with an Ph.D. at the [[University of Colorado]], where she worked as an instructor until 1940.<ref name=papers/>
At [[Russell Sage College]], Sayre was a faculty member from 1940 to 1972, when she retired as professor emerita. In 1972 she became a research associate at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany|Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany]]. There she trained curatorial assistants in the conservation and systematization of cryptogamic collections and scientifically inventoried 19th-century bryological collections.<ref name=papers/> In 1981 a volume in honor of her 70th birthday was published by the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 1981 her friends and colleagues established the Geneva Sayre Fund to support visiting scholars studying at the Farlow Herbarium.<ref name=obit></ref>
As a bryologist, Sayre was a leading expert on the moss genus ''[[Grimmia]]''. In order to clarify the taxonomic nomenclature of the mosses, in 1959 she privately published ''Dates of Publications Describing Musci, 1801-1821''.<ref name=Steere/>
She was the president of [[American Bryological and Lichenological Society]] from 1951 to 1953.<ref name=papers/> In 1983 the [[International Association of Bryologists]] awarded the Hedwig Medal to Sayre (and to Yoshinori Asakawa<ref></ref>) for lifetime achievement in bryology.<ref></ref>
At the end of WW II she organized the sending of food, clothes, money, books, and scientific equipment to distressed bryologists in Germany and other European countries.<ref name=obit/><ref name=Steere/>
==Selected publications==
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==References==
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[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American botanists]]
[[Category:Bryologists]]
[[Category:American women botanists]]
[[Category:People from Guthrie Center, Iowa]]
[[Category:Grinnell College alumni]]
[[Category:University of Wyoming alumni]]
[[Category:University of Colorado alumni]]
[[Category:Russell Sage College faculty]]
==Biography==
Sayre graduated in 1933 with a bachelor's degree from [[Grinnell College]], where she was taught botany by [[Henry Conard]]. She graduated in 1935 with an M.A. from the [[University of Wyoming]] and in 1938 with an Ph.D. at the [[University of Colorado]], where she worked as an instructor until 1940.<ref name=papers/>
At [[Russell Sage College]], Sayre was a faculty member from 1940 to 1972, when she retired as professor emerita. In 1972 she became a research associate at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany|Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany]]. There she trained curatorial assistants in the conservation and systematization of cryptogamic collections and scientifically inventoried 19th-century bryological collections.<ref name=papers/> In 1981 a volume in honor of her 70th birthday was published by the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 1981 her friends and colleagues established the Geneva Sayre Fund to support visiting scholars studying at the Farlow Herbarium.<ref name=obit></ref>
As a bryologist, Sayre was a leading expert on the moss genus ''[[Grimmia]]''. In order to clarify the taxonomic nomenclature of the mosses, in 1959 she privately published ''Dates of Publications Describing Musci, 1801-1821''.<ref name=Steere/>
She was the president of [[American Bryological and Lichenological Society]] from 1951 to 1953.<ref name=papers/> In 1983 the [[International Association of Bryologists]] awarded the Hedwig Medal to Sayre (and to Yoshinori Asakawa<ref></ref>) for lifetime achievement in bryology.<ref></ref>
At the end of WW II she organized the sending of food, clothes, money, books, and scientific equipment to distressed bryologists in Germany and other European countries.<ref name=obit/><ref name=Steere/>
==Selected publications==
*
*
*
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:1992 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century American botanists]]
[[Category:Bryologists]]
[[Category:American women botanists]]
[[Category:People from Guthrie Center, Iowa]]
[[Category:Grinnell College alumni]]
[[Category:University of Wyoming alumni]]
[[Category:University of Colorado alumni]]
[[Category:Russell Sage College faculty]]
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