George Burton Rigg 



B.S., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1896; M.A., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 

 1909; Ph.D. (Plant Physiology and Plant Ecology), Chicago, August, 1914 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 



SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 



Present position, 1914 — . 



Member: Anaer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (Fellow), Bot. Soc. Amer. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Laboratory exercises in elementary botany. {With T. C. Frye.) Boston, 1909. — 

 A method of preparing the larger algae. Plant World 8: 202. 191L — Notes on the 

 ecology and economic importance of Nereocystis luetkeana. Plant World 15: 84—92. 

 1912.— Northwest flora. (With T. C- Frye.) Seattle, 1912.— A note on the genera- 

 tions of Polysiphonia. (With A. D. Dalgity.) Bot. Gaz. 54: 164-165. 1912.— Eco- 

 logical and economic notes on Puget Sound kelps. U. S. Senate Documents 190: 

 179-193. 1912 — The effects of some Puget Sound bog waters on the root-hairs of 

 Tradescantia. Bot. Gaz. 55: 314-326. 1913. — Is salinity a factor in the distribution 

 of Nereocystis luetkeana? Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 42: 337-342. 1913.— The distribu- 

 tion of Macrocystis pyrifera along the American shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 

 Torreya 13: 158-159. 1913. — Forest distribution in the San Juan de Fuca Islands. 

 Plant World 16: 1.77-182. 1913.— Elementary flora of the Northwest. {With T. C. 

 Frye.) New York. 1914. — Notes on the flora of some Alaska sphagnum bogs. Plant 

 World 17: 167-182. 1914. — The effect of the Katmai eruption on marine vegetation. 

 Science N. S. 40: 509-513. 1914.— The kelp beds of Puget sound. U. S. Dept. Agric. 

 Rept. 100: 50-59. 1915.— The kelp beds of western Alaska. Ibid. 100: 105-122. 

 1915. — The size of kelps on the Pacific coast of North America {W~ith T. C. Frye and 

 W. C. Crandall.) Bot. Gaz. 60:473-482. 1915. — Physical conditions in sphagnum 

 bogs. Z6id. 61: 159-163. 1916. 



66 



