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### Author
Smith, Charles Eastwick (1820-1900), American engineer, industrial executive and amateur botanist at Philadelphia; chief organizer of the American Iron and Steel Association; president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company 1861-1869; collected widely in the N.E. United States 1862-1882.
**Abbreviated name**: *C.E. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.E.Sm.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PH|PH]]. – Other material at [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]]. – Library at [[Collection PH|PH]]; letters e.g. at [[Collection GH|GH]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Bossert p. 372; Lenley p. 378; ME 2: 186; NI 3: 53.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 83: 176. 1900 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 29: 447. 1900 (leaves botanical library and herbarium as well as one sixth of his estate to PH; Nat. Nov. 22: 458. 1900; Österr. bot. Z. 50: 347. 1900 (d.).
- Bond, L.A., Natl. Magaz., New York 17: 567-571. 1893 (portr.; biogr. sketch, in series "Railroad men of America").
- Eaton, D.C., Ferns N. Amer. 1: 176. 1878 (coll. Maine).
- Harshberger, J.W., Bot. Philadelphia 227-229. 1899.
- Meehan, T., Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Phildelphia 53: 4-9. 1901 (obit., b. 1 Nov 1820, d. 15 Apr 1900).
- Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 22: 12. 1943.
- Smith, Charles Leonhard (1866-1923), American botanist; AB State Univ. Iowa 1891, MD 1904; assistant in the Botany Department, State University of Iowa; with B.
- Shimek in Nicaragua 1892-1893. (*C.L. Sm.*).
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – Further material in [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection US|US]].
*Exsiccatae*: *Central American fungi* 3 fasc., nos. 1-150. 1896. Sets at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – For details see Stevenson (1971).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 291; Bossert p. 372; IH 2: (files); LS 24969, 24972; NW p. 57; Stevenson p. 1258.
#### Biofile
- Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 42. 1981.
- Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedw. 36: 389-391. 1971 (exsicc.).