> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 213](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264940) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/338-1) LSID 338-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5140488) QID Q5140488 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Austin, Coe Finch|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Austin, Coe Finch (1831-1880), American bryologist, grew up in Greenville, N.Y. and Brookfield (State Hill, Ornage County, N.Y.), at a classical school in Sussex, N.Y. ca. 1850, school teacher at Tappan, N.Y. 1857, at the Columbia College Herbarium 1861-1863, teacher at Demarest, N.Y. 1865-1866 and subsequently at various other schools turning more to botanizing. **Abbreviated name**: *Aust.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Austin*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] (Hepat.), [[Collection NY|NY]] (Musci), further material in [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection FH|FH]]-Sullivant, [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] (Musci), [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NA|NA]] (Martindale), [[Collection NY|NY]] (general personal herb, s. str.), [[Collection PH|PH]] (Bryoph., Alg.), [[Collection QK|QK]] (in Fowler herb.). *Hepaticae boreali-americanae exsiccatae*, or specimens of North American liverworts (nos. 1-150, Closter, N.J., 1873, sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection NY|NY]]). – For tickets see below. *Musci appalachiani* (nos. 1-450, Closter, N.J., 1870), nos. 451-550, 1878 (suppl.), sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection W|W]]. – For accompanying text see TL-2/209. *Copies*: [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]], both p. \[1\]-48, supplement p. \[1\]-16, err. slip. *Copies*: [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 92; BM 1: 74; Bossert p. 17; CSP 1: 123, 7: 59, 12: 31; IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 45; Jackson p. 359, 361; Kew 1: 100; Lenley p. 12; LS 1347, 1348; ME 3: 530 \[index\]; MW p. 24; NAF ser. 2. 3: 31; Taxon 21: 725, 22: 378, 380, 381, 386, 396, 29: 677; TL-2/1: 81, see also TL-2/7586; Urban-Berl. p. 293. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 1/2(18): 576. 1880 (death; colls. for sale); Bot. Gaz. 5(6): 61. 1880 (death, details on his colls. (for sale)), 12(1): 9 Jan 1887 (Columbia College Herbaria \[now NY\] purchase of A's personal bryological coll.; "unfortunately the bulk of his hepatological material was allowed to leave the country" \[now at MANCH\]), 21(6): 384. 1896 (id.); Bot. Zeit. 38: 460. 1880 (obit. not.); J. Bot. 18: 192. 1880 (obit. not.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 27 (Bibl.): 93. 1880 (obit. not.); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 7: 38-39. 1880 (d.); Bot. Not. 1881: 39 (d.); J. New York Bot. Gard. 1(3): 36. 1900 ("mosses, and many of the hepatics and lichens accumulated by Mr. C.F. Austin came into the possession of Columbia..."). - Austin, Mrs. C.F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 10(5): 57. 1883 (two sets of *Musci appalach*. and five of the suppl. still available). - Britton, E.G., Bryologist 13(1): 1-4. 1910 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Crowder, A.A., Canad. Field-Natural. 88: 50, 52, 54. 1974 (material in QK, Fowler herb.). - Demarest, S.A., Mem. Torrey bot. Club 17: 31-38. 1918 (biogr., b. 20 Jun 1831 at Finchville, Orange County, N.Y., d. 18 Mar 1880, Closter, N.J.). - Ewan, J., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 94. 1953; Short hist. bot. U.S. 91. 1969. - House, H.D., New York State Mus. Bull. 328: 12, 20, 24. 1942 (bibl. bot. New York State). - L. \[Lesquereux\], Bull. Torrey bot. Club 7(4): 38-39. 1880 (obit.). - Macoun. J., \[frequent mention of C.F. Austin in corr. J. Macoun – E.G. Britton at NY\]. - Meyer, F.G. and S. Elsasser, Taxon 22(4): 380, 382. 1973 (A. material in Martindale herb. NA; label, handwriting). - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club Vols. 1-75: 4-5. 1955 (lists publ. in TBC). - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 265-267, 272-278, 281-282, 286, 296-297. 1940; John Torrey 264, 268, 287-288, 291-292, 335. 1942; Amer. Bot. 1873-1892. 4, 74, 111, 323. 1944. - Rusby, H.H., Torreya 6: 134-135. 1906 ("Unfortunately, his botanical zeal caused his family to be deprived of many of the important possessions of his life"). - Sayre, G., Cryptogamie, Bryol. Lichén., Paris 5: 57-58. 1984 (notes on *Musci appalach*., TL-2/209, Mem.); Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 177-178. 1971, 45: 19-27. 1987 (biogr., bibl.). - Steere, W.C., Bot. Rev. 43: 288. 1977 \[1978\] (refs. to biogr. sources). #### Composite works - (1) Contributed *Lemnaceae* to A. Gray, *Manual* (TL-2/2124) ed. 5. 1867. #### Handwriting See A.A. Crowder 1974, p. 50. ### Publications ##### n.19.720. Characters of some new Hepaticae **Title** *Characters of some new Hepaticae* (mostly North American), together with notes on a few imperfectly described species... From the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia... 1869. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1869 (date on reprint), p. \[1\]-17. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1869: 218-234. ##### n.19.721. New Hepaticae **Title** *New Hepaticae*... New York... 1872. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1872 (in journal), p. \[9\]-20. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey bot. Club 3(3): 9-20. 1872. ##### n.19.722. Hepaticae boreali-americanae **Title** *Hepaticae boreali-americanae*: (Tickets of the specimens.)... Closter, New Jersey. 1873. Oct. \[size; one gathering). **Abbreviated title**: *Hepat. bor.-amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1873 (Bull. Torrey bot. Club 4: 489 "now printing for this work" Oct 1873), p. \[1\]-48. *Copies*: G. NY. ##### n.19.723. Notes on the Anthocerotaceae **Title** *Notes on the Anthocerotaceae* of North America with descriptions of several new species... Bulletin Torrey botanical Club... 1876. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1876 (in journal), p. \[25\]-26. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey bot. Club. 6(4): 25-26. 1876.