Donald D. Dod

The Reverend Donald Dungan Dod (October 10, 1912, Kansas City, Missouri – April 1, 2008, West Virginia), was an American missionary and orchidologist.

He went to Long Beach Junior College and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a major in Chemistry.

While Tudy became interested in birds, Donald became an extremely well versed amateur orchidologist, having discovered well over fifty new orchid species and (having taught himself the rudiments of botanical Latin) described many of them himself.

Donald Dod was a research associate at the Department of Botany, of the University of California, Berkeley.

The Dods were made Caballeros de Colón, the highest civilian award of the Dominican Republic.