Talk:Jonathan Paul Dey
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From: Buck, Bill <BBUCK@NYBG.ORG> To: 'lichens-l@lists.hawaii.edu' <lichens-l@LISTS.HAWAII.EDU> Sent: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 9:52 am Subject: Jonathan Dey
American lichenologist, Jonathan Paul Dey, died yesterday (19 November 2012), after a prolonged illness. He was born on 29 November 1943 in Ashton, Idaho. He spent most of his career at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is best known for his work on the macrolichens of the high elevations of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Shortly before his death he transferred his personal herbarium of about 35,000 lichens to The New York Botanical Garden (NY). His lichenological library will also be sent to NY. An obituary and biography are being prepared for The Bryologist.