Internet, alt.obituaries, juillet 2004
Information trouvée : décès 2003, Robert W. Read, a former curator in the botany department of the National
Museum of Natural History. He was active in land preservation projects in Collier
County, Fla., following his retirement. He was founding chairman of the Naples Botanical
Garden and did research at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Coral Gables. An expert
on tropical plants, Read was a native of Woodbury, N.J., and ld degrees from the
University of Miami, Cornell University and the University of the West Indies.