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### Author
Wilcox, Edwin \[Forrest\] Mead (1876-1931), American agricultural botanist and plant pathologist; B.S. Ohio State 1896; Dr. phil. Harvard 1899; assistant in botany Ohio State 1894-1897; fellow Harvard 1899-1900; in Buitenzorg (Bogor), Indonesia 1900; professor of botany and entomology, Oklahoma Agr. Mech. College 1900-1901; biologist and horticulturist Alabama Polytechnic Inst., Auburn 1901-1904; professor of botany Alabama Experiment Station 1904-1908; professor of agricultural botany Nebraska Exp. Sta. and State botanist 1908-1920; director Santo Domingo Exp. Sta. 1920-1921; professor of biology Transylvania College 1924-1926; assistant John Crerar Library 1924-1926; director Agronomical Station and College of Agriculture Haina, East Lansing, Mich. from 1927.
**Abbreviated name**: *E.M. Wilcox* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wilcox*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection OS|OS]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection NY|NY]] (Barnhart corr.).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 494 (b. 21 Mai 1876); CSP 19: 611; Hirsch p. 323; Lenley p. 434; LS 28846-28851, 40577-40581; NW p. 61; Stevenson p. 1262; Tucker 1: 745.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 1-5, 1906-1933; Hedwigia 40: (204). 1901 (app. Auburn); Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 532. 1969; Österr. bot. Z. 58: 455. 1908 (app. Nebraska); Who's who Amer. 3-14. 1903-1927, 21: 2761; Who was who Amer. 1: 1344. 1968.
- Barnhart, J.H., Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 9: 78-79. 1908, 12: 144-145. 1911.
- Melsheimer, E., Ohio State Univ. Bull. 37(5): 368. 1932.
### Publications
##### n.17.612. A handbook of Nebraska grasses
**Title**
*A handbook of Nebraska grasses* with illustrated keys for their identification, together with a general account of their structure and economic importance... Lincoln, Nebraska 1945. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Handb. Nebraska grass.*
**Notes**
*Co-authors*: George Konrad Karl Link (b. 1888) and Venus Worrell Pool (b. 1882).
*Publ*.: 1 Apr 1915, p. \[1\]-120. *Copies*: G, HH, MO, NY, Stevenson. – Bull. Agr. Exp. Sta. Nebraska 148 (vol. 27, art. 5).