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- ↑ "Crum, Ethel Katherine (1886-1943)". University and Jepson Herbaria Archives. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
She worked as a research assistant for Dr. Willis Linn Jepson on the manuscript for volume two of A Flora of California. In 1933 she was hired as curatorial staff at the Herbarium, where she worked until her death in 1943. She served as the secretary to the editorial board of the California Botanical Society from 1933-1943.
- ↑ "Crum, Ethel Katherine (1886-1943)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ↑ "Tropicos | Person - Crum, Ethel Katherine". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Crum.
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