Clair Alan Brown

Clair Alan Brown (August 16, 1903 – March 24, 1982) was an American botanist who specialized in Louisiana flora. He was a Louisiana State University faculty member from 1926 until his retirement in 1970. He took up his position at LSU again and taught botany, systematic botany, wood identification, dendrology, forest pathology, ecology, and palynology until his retirement in 1970. as a delegate to the International Botanical Congress in 1950; and as president of the American Fern Society in 1960. He was also appointed to the International Committee on Palynology and an Edmund Niles Huyck Fellowship.

Personal life Brown married Maude Nichols on September 4, 1926 and they had two daughters, Sarah and Dorcas.

Brown died on March 24, 1982, in Baton Rouge.

Selected publications

With Donovan Stewart Correll (1908–1983) Ferns and Fern Allies Trees & Shrubs. 1942 Louisiana Trees & Shrubs. 1945 Vegetation of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 1959 Palynological Techniques. 1960 Wildflowers of Louisiana & Adjoining States. Ed. Louisiana State University Press. 259 pp. , 1980