JOHNSTON, Ivan Murray

JOHNSTON, Ivan Murray (1898-1960) was an American botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in Claremont, and in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University.

Ivan Murray Johnston = [1932] Mildred Williamson

• William M. Johnston
• daughter

Johnston collected on:

• Islas Coronados (1921)

In the News~

June 3, 1960 [Boston Herald]: “A memorial service for Dr. Ivan Murray Johnston, associate professor of botany at Harvard since 1938, will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon in the Leslie Lindsey chapel of Emmanuel Church, Back Bay. Dr. Johnston, an authority on the flowering plants of the United States, Mexico and South America, died Tuesday at his home, 383 South St., Jamaica Plain. He was 62. A member of the Harvard faculty almost 40 years, he had been on the staff of the Arnold Arboretum since 1931. In World War II, his work on the effects of toxic gases on defoliation of the jungle in Panama, won him a citation from the government. Born in Los Angeles, he was a graduate of the University of California and received his Ph.D from Harvard in 1925. He was a member of Sigma Xi, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a number of professional botanical societies. Surviving are his wife, Mildred (Williamson); a son, William M. of New York City, and a daughter, Mrs. Frederick Milleker of Paris.”