Otis Barrett
American agriculturalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otis Warren Barrett (April 18, 1872 ā October 6, 1950) was an American agriculturalist. He spent his early career collecting insects in Mexico, where he became a museum curator and agent for that country's exhibition at the 1900 Paris Exposition. In 1901 Barrett went to Puerto Rico as a US Department of Agriculture entomologist and botanist and afterwards worked with the department's Office of Seed and Plant Introduction. In 1908 he was appointed director of agriculture for the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.
Otis Barrett | |
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Born | (1872-04-18)April 18, 1872 |
Died | October 6, 1950(1950-10-06) (aged 78) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Vermont |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, entomology |
Institutions | US Department of Agriculture, US War Department |
Barrett returned to the Department of Agriculture in 1910 as chief of their experimental stations and horticultural divisions in the Philippines. He became a horticulturalist in the Panama Canal Zone in 1917 and served as the US War Department's agricultural adviser to Liberia in 1920ā21. Barrett returned to Puerto Rico with the Department of Agriculture from 1923 to 1929 and afterwards was a horticulturalist at the University of Hawaii. In 1935 he collected a shipment of rotenone-producing plants from Dominica for use in pesticide production.