Edward Charles Jeffrey

Edward Charles Jeffrey (born May 21, 1866, St. Catherines, Ont., Can.—died April 19, 1952, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.) was a Canadian-American botanist who worked on the morphology and phylogeny of vascular plants. While a lecturer at the University of Toronto (1892–1902), Jeffrey established his reputation with a series of articles published from 1899 to 1905 on the comparative anatomy and phylogeny of different vascular plant groups. Taking a leave of absence from Toronto, Jeffrey received his...