> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 669](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333808) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/26923-1) LSID 26923-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5396128) QID Q5396128 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Smith, Erwin Frink (1854-1927), American phytopathologist, mycologist and specialist on bacterial plant diseases; Dr. phil. Univ. Mich. 1889; with USDA, Washington D.C. 1886-1927 (pathologist Bureau of plant industry 1901; pathologist in charge ib. 1902-1927). **Abbreviated name**: *E.F. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.F.Sm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]] (micr. prep., specimens, notes, mainly on bacterial plant diseases); phanerogams at [[Collection WIS|WIS]]. – *Letters* to Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]; other letters at [[Collection GH|GH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 177, 347; Barnhart 3: 291 (b. 21 Jan 1854, d. 6 Apr 1927); BJI 2: 167; BM 4: 1944; Bossert p. 373; DAB 11: 262-263; DSB 12: 467-468; Hawksworth p. 186; Hirsch p. 278; Hortus 3: 1204; Kelly p. 257; LS 24979-25025, 39291-39309, suppl. 25830-25850; Moebius p. 413; Rehder 5: 804; SIA 7230; Stevenson p. 1258; TL-2/see E.D. Rodgers; Tucker 1: 655, 3: 286. #### Biofile - Anon., Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 20: 273-274. 1929; Who's who Amer. 3-15, 1901-1929; Who was who Amer. 1: 1140-1142. 1968. - Cattell, J.M., ed., Amer. men sci. ed. 1: 296. 1906, ed. 2: 435. 1910. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 47, 83, 84. 1969. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 234-236. 1961. - Jones, K.L., Michigan Academician 9(3): 277-279. 1977. - Jones, L.R., Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 21(1): 1-71. 1939 (biogr., portr., bibl. by F.V. Rand). - Marquis, A.N., Who's who in America 4: 1648. 1906-1907. - Pfister, D.H., Taxon 31(3): 608. 1982 (corr. with Farlow). - Rand, F.V., Mycologia 20(4): 181-186. 1981 (obit., portr.). - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 129-130, 199, 288-293. 1944; Liberty Hyde Bailey 503 \[index\]. 1949; Erwin Frink Smith, a story of North American plant pathology, Philadelphia 1952, x, 675 p., (biogr., portr.), (Mem. Amer. philos. Soc. 31),(rev. Nature 171: 764. 1953). - Rosen, H.R., Mycologia 19: 292-293. 1927 (personal note). - Smith, E.F., J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14(11): 231-238. 1924 ("Some thoughts on old age"). - Stevenson, J.A., Taxon 4(8): 183. 1955 (mycol. coll. BPI). - True, R.H., Phytopathology 17: 675-688. 1927 (obit., portr., main bibl.). - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 13: 72, 85-87. 1978 (early work on Mich. flora). - Whetzel, H.H., Outline hist. phytopath. 1918 (frontisp., portr., see index). #### Composite works With C.F. Wheeler (senior author), *Cat. pl. Michigan*, 1881, see under Wheeler. ### Publications ##### n.12.192. The Botanical club checklist **Title** *The Botanical club checklist*: *a protest*... Washington, D.C., July 22, 1895. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. club checkl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Jul 1895, p. \[1\]-16. *Copy*: US. – A protest against N.L. Britton et al., *List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing without cultivation in Northeastern North America*. – Plan against the nomenclatural reforms of the N.L. Britton school and in favour of the stand by Ascherson, Engler, Schumann and Urban at Genoa to conserve widely used generic names.