> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 16](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259520) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2587580) QID Q2587580 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fairchild, David Grandison (1869-1954), American botanist, mycologist and plant explorer, born 7 Apr 1869 in Lansing, Michigan, B.S. 1888 and M.S. 1893 Kansas State College of Agriculture, Manhattan, Kansas, also studied plant pathology and mycology at Ames, Iowa, employed in plant pathology section U.S.D.A. 1889-1893, resigned to travel, employed as chief of seed and plant introduction section U.S.D.A. 1898 until retirement in 1933 (then appointed collaborator), married Marian Hubbard ('Daisy') Bell (1880-1962), daughter of Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone and a founder of the Natl. Geographic Magazine) in 1905, throughout his life he traveled the world to collect plants and seeds for introduction into the U.S.A., died 6 Aug 1954 in Miami (Coconut Grove), Florida. **Abbreviated name**: *D.G. Fairchild* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]]; see also Frans Nicholaas Meyer sub TL-2/3: 402. – Some corr. in [[Collection LC|LC]] (Alexander Graham Bell family papers). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 8: 745; Barnhart 1: 524; Biol.-Dokum. 5: 64.908; BM 6: 312; Bossert p. 121; CSP 14: 915; DAB suppl. 5: 213-214; De Toni 4: xxi; Ewan Pap. p. 66; Hirsch p. 80; IH 2: 189; Kelly p. 74-75; Kew 2: 231; Langman p. 274; Lenley p. 161-162; LS suppl. 7887-7889; MW p. 111, suppl. p. 62; NW p. 45 (index); Plesch p. 221; Portr. 1: 60 (index), 3: 415-416; Rehder 5(index): 269; RHS 2: 278-279; RUS 3: 216-217, 4: 218; SK 1: 162-163, 5: cclxxvi, 8: xxxiii; Sotheby 1: 213; TL-2/4: 1170 (index); Tucker 1: 239; 3: 102. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 40(44): 159. 1889, 41(6): 171. 5 Feb 1890; Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42: 479. 1895; Bot. Zeitung, 2. Abt. 53: 246. 1 Aug 1895; Intl. address book botanists: 466. 1931; Fl. Males. Bull. 1(4): 84. 1948, 4(20): 1238. 1965; New York Herald Tribune \[newspaper\]: 7 Aug 1954. (portr.); Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 10(1): 2, 6-7. (portr., cover); *in* R.M. Jefferson & A.E. \[sic\] Fusonie, Japanese flow. cherry trees Washington, DC: 62-63 (index). 1977. - Coats, A.M., 1969. Plant hunters: 387 (index). - Dammerman, K.W., 1935. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 45: 21. - Dörfl er, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 194; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 249; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 329. - Douglas, M.S., 1973. Adventures in a Green World: the story of David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop: 61 p. - Douglas, M.S., 1978. Bull. Fairchild Trop. Gard. 33(1): 10-15. (portrs., incl. cover) - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 142. (as "Farichild") - Epstein, B.W. & S. Epstein, 1961. Plant explorer David Fairchild, ed. 2, \[1-6\], 7-192. - Ewan, J., 1962. Rhodora 64: 187. - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 165. (index) - Ewan, J., 1971. *In*, R.W. Long & O. Lakela, Fl. Trop. Florida: 8. - Fusonie, A., 1989. ALIN 15(5): 3-4. (portr.) - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, 1981. Bot. explor. S. Afr.: 152. - Hryniewiecki, B., 1938. Prof. dr. Edward Strasburger (1844–1912): \[23\]. (index) - Kay, E.D., 1964. Huntia 1: 71-78. (portr.) - Kearney, T.H., 1958. Leafl. W. Bot. 8(12): 278, fig. 2. (portr.) - Lawrence, G.H.M., 1964. Huntia 1: 79-102. (bibl.) - Lenz, L.W., 1977. Aliso 4(1): 9. - Letouzey, R., 1968. Fl. Cameroun 7: 38. (Allison V. Armour colls.) - Loomis, H.F., 1954. Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 10(1): 4-5. - Menninger, E.A., 1954. Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 10(1): 7-8. - Moore, H.E. Jr., 1954. Baileya 2: 115-116. - Moore, H.E. Jr., 1954. Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 10(1): 3. (portr., cover) - Murrill, W.A., 1945. Hist. Found. Bot. Florida: 35. - Robbins, W.J., 1959. Garden J. (New York) 9: 204-205. (portr.) - Rodgers, A.D., 1949. Liberty Hyde Bailey: 494. (index) (portr., facing p. 72) - Rodgers, A.D., 1951. Bernhard Eduard Fernow: 612. (index) - Rosengarten, F., Jr., 1991. Wilson Popenoe: Agricultural explorer, educator, and friend of Latin America: 178. (index) (portr., p. 93) - Smit, P. & R.J.Ch. ter Laage (eds.), 1970. Essays in biohistory: 417. (index) - Stevenson, J.A., 1955. Taxon 48: 183. (fungi in BPI) - Stieber, M.T. & A.L. Karg, 1984. Huntia 5: 146. - Stieber, M.T. et al., 1981. Huntia 4: 79. (index) - Suksdorf, W.N., 1976. Northw. Bot. Manuscripts... Washington State Univ., Pullman Library: 45. - Sutton, S.B., 1970. Charles Sprague Sargent: 374. (index) - Venning, F.D., 1954. VIIIe Congr. Intl. Bot. Rapp. & Comm. Sect. 26B: 225-227. (hist. Fairchild Trop. Gard.) - Whetzel, H.H., 1918. Outline Hist. Phytopathology: 60. - Williams, B. & S. Epstein, 1961. Plant explorer, David Fairchild, New York (Messner): 1922 p. - Wittrock, V.B., 1903. Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 178; 1905. Id. 3(2): 195, *pl. 147.* (portr.) - Zona, S., 1995. Fairchild Trop. Gard. News 50(4): 11-12. (n.v.) #### Eponymy *Fairchildia* Britton & Rose (1930); Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A. #### Outside our period - (1) *Garden islands of the Great East*. Collecting seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the junk "Chêng Ho", New York (Charles Scribner's Sons): xv, 239 p. 1943. - (2) *The world grows round my door*. The story of Kampong, a home on the edge of the tropics, New York (Charles Scribner's Sons), London (id.), xiii, 347 p. 1947. #### Composite works - (1) Introd. (p. \[1\]-3) *in* J.F.C. Rock, The *Chaulmoogra tree* and some related species. U.S.D.A. Bull. nr. 1057: \[1\]-29, *pl. 1-16.* 1922. - (2) Principal author of articles in the series *Occasional paper* (*Fairchild Tropical Garden*) ... Coconut Grove, Florida \[1938-1950\]. ### Publications ##### n.33.708. Kenntnis **Title** Ein Beitrag zur *Kenntnis* der *Kerntheilung* bei *Valonia utricularis*... Gebrüder Borntræger (Berlin)... 1894. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 27 Dec 1894 (in journal, mss. rec'd. 26 Nov 1894), p. \[331\]-338, *pl. 21* (lith.). *Copies*: NY, US-Dawson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 12(9): 331-338, *pl. 21.* 1894. ##### n.33.709. lebbek **Title** The *lebbek* or Siris tree... United States Department of Agriculture... \[1900\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 3 Feb 1900 (date approved on p. 4), p. \[1\]-4. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Issued as U.S.D.A., Div. Bot. Circ. nr. 23. 1900. ##### n.33.710. Spanish almonds **Title** *Spanish almonds* and their introduction into America... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1902. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Span. almonds*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1902 (pref. p. 3 signed 14 Feb 1902), cover-t.p., frontisp. (uncol. phot.), p. \[1\]-16, *pl. 1-7* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH-ECON, LC (n.v.). – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. nr. 26. 1902. ##### n.33.711. introduction **Title** III. – Plant *introduction* notes from *South Africa*... \[U.S.D.A. Plant Industr. Bull. ... 1902\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 8 Mai 1903 (footnote on p. 13), p. 13-22. *Copy*: BR. – Reprinted and to be cited from U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. 25(3): 13-22. 1902. ##### n.33.712. plant introductions **Title** Three new *plant introductions* from *Japan*... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1903. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. introd. Japan*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 24 Jun 1903 (date on cover-t.p., Nat. Nov. Dec (2) 1903), cover-t.p., *pl. 1* (uncol. phot.), p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 2-6* (id.). *Copies*: B, BM, BR, HH, LC (n.v.), MO. – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. nr. 42. 1903. ##### n.33.713. Japanese bamboos **Title** *Japanese bamboos* and their introduction into America... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1903. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Jap. bamboos*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 3 Jul 1903 (date on cover-t.p. & on t.p., Nat. Nov. Dec (2) 1903), cover-t.p., *pl. 1* (uncol. phot.), p. \[1\]-36, *pl. 2-8* (id.). *Copies*: B, BM, BR, HH, L, LC (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard Univ. Library Microreproduction Service), \[1983\], 35 mm, Film Mas C 978. *Copy*: HH (n.v.). – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. nr. 43. 1903. ##### n.33.714. Persian Gulf dates **Title** *Persian Gulf dates* and their introduction into America... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1903. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 19 Dec 1903 (issue date on p. \[1\], pref. p. 4 signed 17 Sep 1903), cover-t.p., frontisp. (=*pl. 1*), p. \[1\]-32, *pl. 1-4* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, LC (n.v.). – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. nr. 54: 1-32, *pl. 1-4.* 1903. ##### n.33.715. cultivation **Title** The *cultivation* of the *Australian wattle*... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1904. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cultiv. Austral. wattle*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 8 Oct 1904 (date on t.p., Nat. Nov. Dec (1) 1904), p. \[1\]-7, *pl. 1-3* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: B, BM, HH. – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. nr. 51, part 4. 1904. *Note*: Subject is *Acacia mollissima* Willd. ##### n.33.716. plant immigrants **Title** Our *plant immigrants*. An account of some of the results of the work of the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction of the Department of Agriculture and some of the problems in process of solution... The National Geographic Magazine... 1906. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. immigrants*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1906 (date on p. \[179\], read 9 Feb 1906), cover-t.p., p. \[179\]-201. *Copies*: BKL, HH, L, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Natl. Geogr. Mag. 17(4): 179-201. 1906. ##### n.33.717. South African Pipe Calabash **Title** The *South African Pipe Calabash*... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1909. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *S. Afr. Pipe Calabash*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Collins, Guy N. (1872-1938), see TL-2 Suppl. 4: 274-275 and IH 2: 134. *Publ*.: 1 Dec 1909 (issue date on t.p., Nat. Nov. Sep (1) 1910), p. \[1\]-9, *pl. 2* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: B, BM (n.v.), BR, HH, LC (n.v.), NY. – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Circ. nr. 41. 1909. ##### n.33.718. New plant immigrants **Title** *New plant immigrants*... Reprinted from the National Geographic Magazine... 1911. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1911 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[879\]-907. *Copies*: BKL, K. – Reprinted and to be cited from Natl. Geogr. Mag. 22(10): 879-907. 1911. ##### n.33.719. Asiatic Actinidias **Title** Some *Asiatic Actinidias*... \[U.S.D.A. Bureau Plant Industry Circular\]... 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 18 Jan 1913 (issue date on p. 7), p. 7-12, *pl. 1-2* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: BKL, BR, HH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Circ. nr. 110: 7-12, *pl. 1-2.* 1913. ##### n.33.720. Chinese wood-oil tree **Title** The *Chinese wood-oil tree*... U.S. Department of Agriculture... 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 5 Apr 1913 (issue date on t.p. \[=p. \[1\]\], p. 7 signed 29 Nov 1912), p. \[1\]-7, *pl. 1-3 *(uncol. phot.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, LC. – Issued as U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Circ. nr. 108: 1-7, *pl. 1-3.* 1913. ##### n.33.721. Barro Colorado Island Laboratory **Title** *Barro Colorado Island Laboratory*... American Genetic Assoc., Washington, D.C. ... 1924. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1924 (on cover-t.p.), p. \[98 = frontisp.\], 99-112. *Copies*: HH, US (n.v.), USDA. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Heredity 15(3): 98-112. Mar 1924. ##### n.33.722. Roxburgh's giant fig **Title** *Roxburgh's giant fig* in *Teneriffe*... J. Hered.... 1927. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1927 (in journal), cover (identif.), p. 553-536. *Copy*: K. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Heredity 18(12): 533-536. 1927. *Subject*: *Ficus macrophylla* Roxb. & Buch.-Ham. ex J.E. Sm. (=*F. auriculata* Lour.). ##### n.33.723. Allison V. Armour Expeditions **Title** Two expeditions after living plants. The *Allison V. Armour Expeditions* of *1925-27*, including two voyages of the especially equipped yacht Utowana... Reprinted from The Scientific Monthly... 1928. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1928 (cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. 97-127. *Copy*: K. – Reprinted and to be cited from Sci. Monthly 26: 97-127. 1928. ##### n.33.724. Hunting **Title** *Hunting* for *plants* in the *Canary Islands*... \[National Geographic Magazine... 1930\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1930 (in journal), p. 607-652. *Copy*: U. – Reprinted and to be cited from Natl. Geogr. Mag. 57(5): 607-652. 1930. ##### n.33.725. Exploring **Title** *Exploring* for *plants*. From notes of the Allison Vincent Armour Expeditions for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1925, 1926, and 1927... New York (The Macmillan Company) 1930. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Expl. pls.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1930 (on verso of t.p., p. xi signed Feb 1930), p. \[i\]-xx, \[xxi\], 1-591. *Copies*: G, HH, K (n.v.), L, LC (n.v.), MO, NY(2), U, US (n.v.). *Ref*.: Fuller, G.D., Bot. Gaz. 90(3): 336. Nov 1930 (noticed). - Anon., J. Bot. 69(821): 142. Mai 1931 (rev.). - Webster, H., Economic Geogr. 7(4): 430-431. Oct 1931 (rev.). - J.M.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1931(9): 461-462. 1931 (rev.). - *Note*: According to information at USDA, this was reprinted Jan 1931. - *Ed. 2*: 1978,... Sakonnet \[Rhode Island\] (Theophrastus), p. \[i\]-xx, 1-591. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), NYPL (n.v.). ##### n.33.726. world **Title** The *world* was my *garden*. Travels of a plant explorer... New York (Charles Scribner's Sons)/London (id.) 1938. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1938, p. \[i\]-xiv, \[xv\], 1-494, many illus. (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: B, BM, L, NY(2), U, US. *Note*: Additional printings, without change in the text, have publication dates of 1939, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1954, at least. *Ref*.: Cockerell, T.D.A., Science, ser. 2, 89(2306): 221-223. 10 Mar 1939 (rev.). - Hastings, G.T., Torreya 39(3): 76-77. 15 Jun 1939 (rev.). - Ramsbottom, J., J. Bot. 77(920): 250-252. Aug 1939 (rev.). - Evans, G., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939(1): 39-40. 1939 (rev.). - Zirkle, C., Isis 32(1): 164-165. Jul 1940 (rev.). ##### n.33.727. Jaboticaba **Title** The *Jaboticaba* "The Grape of *Brazil*"... Occasional papers... Fairchild Tropical Garden... 1939. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Jan 1939 (on cover-t.p. & p. 1), p. 1-7. *Copy*: HH. – Issued as Occas. Pap. Fairchild Trop. Gard. 2: 1-7. 1939. *Note*: Jaboticaba is *Myrciaria jaboticaba* (Vell.) O. Berg. ##### n.33.728. gorgeous vine **Title** Florida plant immigrants... \[1\] A *gorgeous vine* from *West Africa*... \[and\] \[2\] *Hernandia ovigera*, a handsome strand tree *from Sumatra*... Occasional papers... Fairchild Tropical Garden... 1939. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 31 Mar 1939 (cover-t.p.), p. \[1\]-5, \[7\]-11. *Copy*: L. – Issued as Occas. Pap. Fairchild Trop. Gard. 3 and 4. 1939 (two papers combined). ##### n.33.729. White Sapote **Title** The *White Sapote* and the Matasano... Occasional papers... Fairchild Tropical Garden... 1939. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Oct 1939 (cover-t.p.), p. 1-7. *Copy*: HH. – Issued as Occas. Pap. Fairchild Trop. Gard. 5: 1-7. 1939. *Note*: Issue includes "*Antidesmas* as *promising fruit trees* for *Florida*", Id. 6: \[9\]-16. 1939.