Lincoln Brower, an American entomologist at Sweet Briar College known for his work to conserve US and Mexican populations of monarch butterflies, died at his home in Virginia last week (July 17) after an extended time living with Parkinson’s disease. He was 86.
“His prodigious and pivotal contributions to biology were exceeded only by his humility,” John Morrissey, a professor of biology at Sweet Briar College, says in a statement. “In fact, I knew him for two to three years before I realized that he was the Lincoln Brower who had authored all those amazing papers that I read as a student! He was simply too warm, too generous, too gregarious and too thoughtful to be that famous! Simply stated, he is one of the finest humans that I have ever met.”
Born in 1931 in Madison, New Jersey, Brower grew up fascinated with the wildlife in the plant nursery ...
