page_title: Marshall Avery Howe
hierarchical_section_title: Marshall Avery Howe
caption_attribution_description: English: Nathaniel L. Britton, Thomas Edison and Marshall Avery Howe at the New York Botanical Gardens; July 1927
context_page_description: Marshall Avery Howe was an American botanist, taxonomist, morphologist, curator and the third director of the New York Botanical Garden. He specialized in the study of liverworts and algae, and was also an expert on
  the cultivation of dahlias and other ornamental plants. He was an instructor in cryptogamic botany at the University of California at Berkeley and was appointed curator of the New York Botanical Garden in 1906, and assistant director in 1923, and director in 1935 after the death of Elmer Drew Merrill. In collecting for the gardens, he made numerous expeditions collecting algae and liverworts. He was an active member of the "Garden Club" in New York. He served as secretary then president of the Board of Trustees of the Pleasantville Free Library.
context_section_description: Marshall Avery Howe (1867-1936) was an American botanist, taxonomist, morphologist, curator and the third director of the New York Botanical Garden.  He specialized in the study of liverworts (Hepaticae) and algae, and was also an expert on 
  the cultivation of dahlias and other ornamental plants. He was an instructor in cryptogamic botany at the University of California at Berkeley and was appointed curator of the New York Botanical Garden in 1906, and assistant director in 1923, and director in 1935 after the death of Elmer Drew Merrill. In collecting for the gardens, he made numerous expeditions collecting algae and liverworts. He was an active member of the "Garden Club" in New York. He served as secretary then president of the Board of Trustees of the Pleasantville Free Library.
caption: Howe in 1927
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