. Budd's flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Botany; Botanique. A tribute to A. C. Budd Archibald Charles Budd was born in London, England, on 28 April 1889. He attended Bellenden Road Higher Grade School, where as top boy he earned a merit certificate. He took commercial training at Camberwell Gram- mar School, and attended Choumert Road Evening School and Kings College. From 1905 until 1909 he clerked in the Civil Service at the Customs House and the General Post Office. A prize of 250 pounds for winning a limerick contest made it possible for Mr. Budd to emigrate to Canada in 1910 as a
. Budd's flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces. Botany; Botanique. A tribute to A. C. Budd Archibald Charles Budd was born in London, England, on 28 April 1889. He attended Bellenden Road Higher Grade School, where as top boy he earned a merit certificate. He took commercial training at Camberwell Gram- mar School, and attended Choumert Road Evening School and Kings College. From 1905 until 1909 he clerked in the Civil Service at the Customs House and the General Post Office. A prize of 250 pounds for winning a limerick contest made it possible for Mr. Budd to emigrate to Canada in 1910 as a land seeker. He first worked as a farmhand at Waldeck, Saskatchewan, and later homesteaded and farmed at Burnham until 1922. A lifelong interest in nature study helped him when he began working at the Dominion Experimental Station at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1926. As an assistant to the late Dr. Sidney Barnes of the Soils Research Laboratory, Mr. Budd assisted in studies on the taxonomy of weeds and the physiology of weed seeds until 1944. Although he had no formal training in botany, Mr. Budd was a keen student of taxonomy. An avid reader of botanical works and an astute observer, he soon became an authority on the prairie Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Ottawa] : Research Branch, Agriculture Canada
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