Louis Cutter Wheeler (1910–1980) was an American botanist and professor of botany with an international reputation for his research on Euphorbiaceae.
[1] Specialising in the Euphorbiaceae by this time, he published a revision of Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce in Canada and the U.S. (except for Florida), giving typifications of 49 taxa.
This led to four visits to the island, where he was disappointed not to be able to carry a gun for protection against dangers he believed he would encounter, such as stampeding elephants.
[4] Louis Cutter Wheeler an older brother, Willis Hayes (1906–1996), and 4 sisters, Hazel Ruth (1908–2013), Florence Elizabeth (1914–1920), Muriel Flora (1917–2006), and Janet Lucile (1919–2016).
[1] Willis Hayes Wheeler became a plant pathologist and botanist, working for the USDA.