Benjamin Lincoln Robinson

Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (November 8, 1864 – July 27, 1935) was an American botanist. He served as Gray Herbarium curator and professor of systematic botany at Harvard University for most of his career. He edited the journal Rhodora for 30 years.

Biography Robinson was born on November 8, 1864, in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1887, he received an A.B. from Harvard College. He married Margaret Louise Casson on June 29, 1887, and couple traveled to Europe. He studied plant anatomy with Hermann zu Solms-Laubach and completed his Dr.phil. at the University of Strasbourg in 1889. He returned to the United States in the fall of 1890. He spent most of his career as Gray Herbarium curator. He died at his summer home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, on July 27, 1935.

Awards 1929—Centennial Gold medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society

Family Benjamin Lincoln Robinson was a brother of James Harvey Robinson (1868–1936), a historian, scholar, and educator.