Samuel J. Record

Samuel James Record 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. After working for the US Forest Service he joined the faculty of the Yale [School of Forestry] in 1910. In 1917 he became Professor of forest products, and in 1939 was made Dean of the school.
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. Record's honour. Also in the same year, Adolpho Ducke published Recordoxylon, a genus of flowering plants from northern South America in the legume family, Fabaceae.
Through field trips around the Americas and help from correspondents all over the world, Samuel Record amassed a collection of some 41 000 identified wood specimens. Originally housed at Yale, the SJRw collection was moved in 1969 to the US Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory. He was a founder of the International Society of Wood Anatomists and started publishing the journal Tropical Woods in 1925.