He attended a graduate program at Ohio State University before switching his focus to botany.
[1] Camp's research specialty involved the relationships and evolution of the Ericaceae, and he frequently collaborated with Charles Louis Gilly.
After leaving the Société, he spent the rest of the year traveling through South America in order to purchase loofahs for use as oil filters by the U.S. Navy.
He joined the Mision de Cinchona in Ecuador from 1944 to 1945, working closely with William Campbell Steere.
[1] Camp left the NYBG in 1949 for a position as Curator of Experimental Botany and Horticulture at Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.