> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 303](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333442) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9239-1) LSID 9239-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4798203) QID Q4798203 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schott, Arthur \[Carl Victor\] (1814-1875), German (Württemberg) naturalist, explorer and plant collector; manager of several estates in Germany and in charge of a mining property in Hungary; travelled in S. Europe, Turkey and Arabia 1848; to the United States 1850; in New York 1850-1851; surveyor on the Mexican Boundary Survey 1851-1864; in the field 1851-1853, 1854, 1855, 1857, but stationed at Washington D.C.; in charge of a geological survey of Yucatan 1864-1866; in various Government functions in Washington, D.C. 1866-1875. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Schott* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Schott*\] #### Herbarium and types Personal herbarium at [[Collection F|F]]; Mexican Boundary Survey material at [[Collection NY|NY]] and [[Collection US|US]]. Duplicates: [[Collection BM|BM]] (1000, from Yucatan), [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MEDEL|MEDEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection STU|STU]], [[Collection W|W]]. Some material from Austria-Hungary in [[Collection F|F]]. – Letters to John Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]. Daniel (1981) remarks that the specimens collected on the Mexican Boundary Survey often went directly to specialists, and that Schott's specimens went directly to John Torrey (now [[Collection NY|NY]]). – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 238 (b. 27 Feb 1814, d. 26 Jul 1875); BM 4: 1857; Bossert p. 355; CSP 5: 538, 8: 884; IF p. 729; Langman p. 683; Lenley p. 468 (Torrey corr.); ME 3: 651; Plesch p. 334; Rehder 2: 153, 396, 681; SIA 95, 201; TL-1/see W.H. Emory; TL-2: 1616, 1670; see W.H. Emory; Tucker 1: 634. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Gaz. 23: 228. 1897 (complete personal herbarium acquired by F); - \[-r\], Flora 52: 47. 1869 (coll. Yucatan); Leopoldina 11: 164. 1875 (d.). - Barnhart J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 28: 132-133. 1927, 30: 280-281. 1928 (biogr. sketch); *in* F.W. Pennell, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 618. 1935 (coll. F). - Daniel, T.F., Taxon 30: 48, 50, 51. 1981 (Mex. Bound. Survey specimens directly to John Torrey). - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 263. 1882. - Geiser, S.W., Field & Laboratory 27: 197-198. 1959; Natural. Frontier 281. 1948. - Knobloch, I.W., Pl. coll. N. Mexico 62. 1979 (b. 26 Feb 1814); Prel. list pl. Coll. Mexico 87. 1983. - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 302. 1972 (coll. Mexico). - Moldenke, H.N., Plant Life 2: 82. 1946 (1948) (epon.). - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. BM(NH) 181. 1904 (1000 sp. from Yucatan, coll. 1865). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1208. 1898. - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 349 \[index\]. 1942. - Sargent, C.S., Silva N. Amer. 10: 18. 1896 (biogr. not.). - Taylor, W.R., Field Mus. Bot. 20(4): 87-104. 1941 (tropical marine algae of the Arthur Schott herbarium). - Thomas, J.H., Huntia 3: 15. 1969.