Samuel J. Record

Samuel James Record (10 March 1881 – 3 February 1945) was an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of wood.

Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, Record graduated from Wabash College in 1903 and received a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University in 1905.

In 1934, botanist Moldenke published Recordia, a genus of flowering plants from Bolivia and Brazil, belonging to the family Verbenaceae and named in Samuel J.

[1] Also in the same year, Adolpho Ducke published Recordoxylon, a genus of flowering plants from northern South America in the legume family, Fabaceae.

[2] Through field trips around the Americas (most notably Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and of course the US)[3] and help from correspondents all over the world, Samuel Record amassed a collection of some 41 000 identified wood specimens.