Frank Nicholas Meyer: An Emigrant's Lifelong Searchfor Plant Immigrants
Journal: Journal of American Pomological Society
Year: 2019

Rarely sedentary, Frank N. Meyer (1875-1918) labored and studied plants diligently in Europe to earn passage to the United States. After holding several jobs briefly in the U.S. to fund his botanical explorations, Meyer was hired by the Foreign Plant Introduction Section of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). During his four expeditions to Asia (1905 to 1918), Meyer collected more than 2,500 plant specimens and exchanged germplasm with botanical gardens worldwide. Traveling thousands of m