> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 221](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265898) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1701-1) LSID 1701-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q282329) QID Q282329 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Clinton, George William|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Clinton, Georges William (1807-1885), American botanist, born in New York City, studied medicine two or three years and turned to law, resident of Buffalo 1836-1881 devoting himself to the bar, regent of the Buffalo University from 1856, returned to botany 1861 with the establishment of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, from 1881 resident of Albany. **Abbreviated name**: *Clinton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Clinton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NYS|NYS]](Albany), further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BUC|BUC]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection QK|QK]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 358 (b. 13 Apr 1807, N.Y. City, d. 7 Sep 1885, Albany, New York); CSP 12: 162, 14: 271; IH 1(ed. 8): see NYS, 2: 131; Kew 1: 572; Langman p. 208; ME 1: 173, 3: 553 (index); Morren ed. 2, p. 57, ed. 10, p. 126; Stevenson p. 1238; TL-2/1: 512, and see J.E. Smith; Tucker 1: 9. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1886: 39 (d.). - Coulter, J.M., Bot. Gaz. 10(10): 376. Oct 1885 (brief note plus details of his death in New York Tribune). - Crowder, A.A., Canad. Field-Naturalist 88: 51. 1974 (herb. mat.). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 26. 1934. - Day, D.F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 12: 103-106. 1885, *also*: An address comm. G.W. Clinton, Buffalo 24 Mai 1890. 29 p. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 31: 17-20. 1885 (obit.); Sci. Papers 2: 475-478. 1889. - House, H.D., New York State Mus. Bull. 328: 96. 1942, 329: 195. 1942. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 77. 1972. - Lack, H.W. and O.v. Sydow, Willdenowia 13: 417. 1983 (letters to Keck now at UPS-UB). - Lloyd, C.G., Mycol. Notes 64: 985. 1920 (phot.). - Lucante, A., Rev. Bot. Bull. mens. Sci. Soc. Franç. Bot. 4: 334. 1886 (d. 7 Sep 1885). - McVaugh, B., Edward Palmer 67. 1959. - Pennell, F.W. and J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 603. 1935 (coll.). - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 88, 189, 263 (Clintonia), 268. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-1892: 4, 275, 326. 1944. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 36-37. 1983. ### Publications ##### n.26.682. Preliminary list of the plants of Buffalo **Title** *Preliminary list of the plants of Buffalo* and its vicinity... Albany (Comstock & Cassidy, Printers) 1864. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1864 ("made" 4 Apr 1864), p. \[i-iii\], \[23\]-36. *Copies*: G, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from 17th Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York ... 1864: 23-26. *Note*: The same title exists as: Buffalo (Young, Lockwood & Co.'s Steam Press) 1864. Oct. *Copy*: BKL, p. \[1\]-12.