Albert LeRoy Andrews

Albert LeRoy Andrews (1878–1961) was a professor of Germanic philology and an avocational bryologist, known as "one of the world’s foremost bryologists and the American authority on Sphagnaceae." From 1922 to 1923 he was the president of the Sullivant Moss Society, renamed in 1970 the American Bryological and Lichenological Society.

A. LeRoy Andrews
Born(1878-12-27)December 27, 1878
Williamstown, Massachusetts
DiedNovember 1, 1961(1961-11-01) (aged 82)
Alma materWilliams College
Harvard University
University of Kiel
Known forThe Bryophyte Flora of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin, New York (1957)
Scientific career
FieldsGermanic philology
Bryology
InstitutionsCornell University
Author abbrev. (botany)A.L.Andrews
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