Anna Buck Nickels (born Ohio , June 10, 1832; died Corpus Christi , Texas , January 3, 1917) was an American cactus collector and florist. She was for many years one of the most important collectors, cultivators, and popularizers of the cactus of Mexico and southern Texas. The standard author abbreviation A.B.Nickels is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name .
14-526: Nickels may refer to: People [ edit ] Anna B. Nickels (1832-1917), American cactus collector Christa Nickels (born 1952), German politician Greg Nickels (born 1955), two-term mayor of Seattle, Washington, United States Jean Nickels (1917–1985), Luxembourgian sprint canoer Jim Nickels (born 1947), American politician John L. Nickels (1931–2013), American judge Kelly Nickels , stage name of Henri Perret (born 1962), bass guitarist of
28-563: A 1915 article on peyote Safford included a picture of Nickels and noted in the caption that she had "called attention to the narcotic properties of Lophophora, and supplied to Parke, Davis, & Co. material with which to investigate the drug." The German botanist Max Gürke named a species Cereus nickelsii in her honor in 1910 (now Cephalocereus polylophus ). The California botanist Mary Katharine Brandegee knew Nickels and named Mammillaria nickelsae (now Coryphantha nickelsiae ) after her. The Southern Florist and Gardener published
42-555: A Mexican display at the Paris Exposition . Her cacti were distributed to various European nurseries after the Exposition and provided material for European botanists. In 1895 Nickels discovered a new species of Cereus, now known as Grusonia bradtiana , which was named at her request after George Bradt, the editor of The Southern Florist and Gardener by botanist John Merle Coulter . In 1908 William Safford wrote in
56-417: A picture of Nickels in its June 1898 issue with the following text: "It is with the greatest pleasure we present to our readers the picture of our esteemed friend, Mrs. Anna B. Nickels of Laredo, Texas. She is one of the most widely and favorably known among all of the cactus fraternity the world over, and surely none of us can look upon the kindly features of this pioneer collector without a keen desire to grasp
70-706: The Smithsonian Report for that year that Nickels had one of the most important collections of cactus in the United States at her Laredo nursery. He also noted that her observations of native use of peyote as an intoxicant and a febrifuge were published by Coulter in his 1894 Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora , and mentioned that she had provided plant materials for chemists, drug manufacturers, florists, and botanists for many years. In
84-595: The degree A.B. in 1870, followed by an A.M. in 1873 and Ph.D. in 1883 from the Indiana University. Indiana University conferred a pro merito Ph.D. to Coulter in 1884 while he was serving as professor of botany at Wabash College . He married Georgie M. Gaylord of Delphi, Indiana , on January 1, 1874. John Merle Coulter held the following positions: Coulter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1898. In 1901, Coulter
98-577: The hand that has been busy so many years in giving all of us pleasure. Many more years of robust health and usefulness is the sincere wish of the "Corner", and we feel sure that in this, all who read these lines will join us. Mrs. Nickels has very likely the largest number of succulent plants in this country, and no one having the opportunity to spend a few hours in Laredo should fail to see our friend's cactus farm." John Merle Coulter John Merle Coulter, Ph. D. (November 20, 1851 – December 23, 1928)
112-547: The hard rock band L.A. Guns Other uses [ edit ] Nickels Grill & Bar , a Canadian restaurant chain Nickels Arcade , a commercial building in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States See also [ edit ] Nichols (surname) Nichol , another surname Nickel (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
126-687: The sinking of the White Star liner Republic in which six were killed. While employed at the Boyce Thompson Institute , Coulter died from heart disease at his home in Yonkers, New York , on December 23, 1928, at the age of 77. John Merle Coulter's published works include: In 1875, Coulter founded the Botanical Gazette and thereafter continued to be its editor. Coulter's student, Henry Chandler Cowles played
140-510: The title Nickels . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nickels&oldid=1128420845 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Anna B. Nickels Nickels
154-708: Was an American botanist and educator. In his career in education administration, Coulter is notable for serving as the president of Indiana University and Lake Forest College and the head of the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago . John Merle Coulter was born in Ningpo, China to missionary parents Caroline Elvira Crowe and Moses Stanley Coulter. His brother was the botanist Stanley Coulter . He graduated from Hanover College in Indiana receiving
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#1732786652135168-741: Was born Anna Buck Snell in Ohio; her parents moved the next year to Knox County, Illinois . The family purchased land in Victoria Township there in 1839. She was one of eight children of Appleton Snell (1786-1864) and his wife Elizabeth Hubbell Snell (1803-1899). Anna married her first husband, David Foote Eells (1826-1866), in 1854; they had two children, Benjamin H. Eells (1854-1933) and Irene Eells Vera (1857-1935). She married lawyer Peter Nickels (born circa 1824) in 1869. By her own account, Nickels began collecting cactus around 1870 and travelled to many areas of Mexico in search of them. By 1876 she
182-578: Was publishing a printed catalog with a list of species that she had available from her private nursery in Laredo . According to a reviewer, she sent 287 species of cactus for her exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where they won the highest honors. In 1894 she found what was ultimately judged to be a new sub-species of Agave victoriae-reginae , now officially Agave victoriae-regina forma nickelsii . In 1900 Nickels provided cactus for
196-861: Was the general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1918 served as the Association's president. From 1897 to 1898, he was the president of the Botanical Society of America . He was also an elected member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . In 1909, Coulter and his wife, along with their children Grace and Merle, survived
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