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Abel Aken Hunter (September 18, 1877 – April 6, 1935) was an American botanist notable for his contributions to science primarily in the collection of the orchids of Panama. From 1915-1935, he was a team member on scientifically significant orchid hunting expeditions with many of the collectors and researchers of the day: Charles Powell, George Pring, Carroll Dodge, Julian Steyermark, and Paul Allen. He earned his reputation in field work as an outgrowth of his friendship with Charles Powell. In a unique period in Panama's history, his first orchid collecting adventure took place with Powell during a fishing trip on the newly man-created Gatun Lake in 1912. By 1915, both Hunter and Powell were living and working in Balboa, Panama. As a hobby, Powell started an orchid garden. Beginning in 1918, the two men would spend leave periods from their employment on extended collecting expeditions: their mission morphing over the years from that of hobby collecting to systematic scientific collecting. In 1919, Powell submitted their findings for identification to German botanist Rudolf Schlechter who published, in 1922, ''Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses'', a 95-page study of Powell's Panama orchids—Schlechter naming five of the new to science species to honor Hunter. To supplement the plant collection at the Missouri Botanical Garden's (MBG) Tropical Station in Balboa, Panama, in 1927, Hunter trekked with George Pring on a month-long collecting expedition in Panama's Chiriquí region. In 1928, Hunter became the second manager of the Tropical Station. In 1934-35, as part of MBG collection teams including Carroll Dodge, Julian Steyermark, Paul Allen and Hunter, more than 740 collection records (herbarium specimens) crediting Hunter were submitted for study to the MBG's herbarium in St. Louis, Missouri; Hunter's specimen records are found online in the Tropicos database. Hunter and Allen's herbarium specimens can be found in the Oakes Ames Herbarium at Harvard University—four of which proved to be new to science species.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_search.php?mode=search&cltr=A.+A.+Hunter+%26+P.+H.+Allen )〕 The records generated by these expeditions not only document the time and location of specific species but continue to provide scientists and anyone wishing to see them an opportunity for study via digital images in virtual herbaria. ==Early life== Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Mary Abba (née Crooker) and Joseph H. Hunter, Abel was the third-born of four children. About 1870, Joseph Hunter (1843-1880) was admitted to the Illinois bar, initially opening his law practice in Mendota, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=hunter&GSfn=joseph&GSby=1843&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1880&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=70360160&df=all& )〕 There he met and married Mary Crooker. After the birth of their daughter, Alice Cushman Hunter (1874), the pioneer family moved 400 miles west to Lincoln, Nebraska where Walter David (1875), Abel Aken (1877), and Joseph Slayton Hunter (1879) were born.〔 In 1880, the U. S. Federal Mortality Schedule documented Joseph H. Hunter's death: cause—typhoid fever. In a biography of Abel's older brother, Walter David Hunter (entomologist), the Hunter children were mentioned: "He () and the other children in the family were apparently born naturalists, for they knew all the birds and many of the plants and insects around Lincoln."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhu53 )〕 While studying for a higher education, on January 3, 1893, Hunter (age 15) was appointed to the United States Postal Service (USPS).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://archive.org/stream/registercatalogu189196univ#page/n167/mode/2up/search/hunter )〕〔 At the University of Nebraska, he studied botany and in 1898 was appointed by the Board of Regents as a plant collector. That same year, Hunter along with George G. Hedgcock submitted a paper "Thorea" after discovering a rare seaweed (ramosissima'' Bory ) in Lancaster County, Nebraska. By 1900, Hunter left the University's employ and began working full-time for the USPS. The May 4, 1901 issue of the ''Nebraska State Journal'' reported: "A. A. Hunter, who has for several years been doing work in the department of botany, has accepted a position (the USPS ) in Grand Island ()." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abel A. Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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