Thank you to all the volunteers who helped us transcribe this travelog and gain insight into the young man who would become the first Head Curator of the USNM's Department of Botany some thirty-four years later, in 1947.
Raised in upstate New York, Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890-1968) received his A. B. degree in 1911 from the University of Rochester. This "Account of a canoe trip through the Adirondacks : my first travelogue" describes a 1914 summer expedition he undertook five years before joining the Division of Plant staff at the United States National Museum (USNM) in 1919 and embarking on a career in botany that would span over four decades. While the main focus of the narrative is Killip's travels, it includes photographs of localities and botanical specimens observed during the trip and many descriptions of surrounding flora and fauna.
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped us transcribe this travelog and gain insight into the young man who would become the first Head Curator of the USNM's Department of Botany some thirty-four years later, in 1947.
Raised in upstate New York, Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890-1968) received his A. B. degree in 1911 from the University of Rochester. This "Account of a canoe trip through the Adirondacks : my first travelogue" describes a 1914 summer expedition he undertook five years before joining the Division of Plant staff at the United States National Museum (USNM) in 1919 and embarking on a career in botany that would span over four decades. While the main focus of the narrative is Killip's travels, it includes photographs of localities and botanical specimens observed during the trip and many descriptions of surrounding flora and fauna.
Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890-1968), a botanist, was raised in upstate New York and received the A.B. degree from the University of Rochester in 1911. He joined the staff of the United States National Museum (USNM) in 1919 as an Aide in the Division of Plants. He was promoted to Assistant Curator in 1927, Associate Curator in 1928, and Curator in 1946. In 1947, Killip was appointed Head Curator of the newly established Department of Botany, USNM, a position he retained until his retirement in 1950. He was a Research Associate in the Department of Botany, USNM, from 1950 to 1965. Killip specialized in the taxonomy of South American plants
