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### Author
Bastin, Edson Sewell (1843-1897), American botanist, Wisconsin born, on active service 1862-1865, with General Steele at Little Rock, at the University of Chicago 1865-1867, employed in a drug store while studying pharmacy, registrar of the University of Chicago 1874-1883, also teaching botany, professor of botany and microscopy at the Chicago College of Pharmacy 1883-1890, professor of materia medica and botany in the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy 1890-1894, id. in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 1894-1897.
**Abbreviated name**: *E.S. Bastin*
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection MO|MO]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 136; CSP 9: 138, 13: 338; IH 2: 59; Kew 1: 175; Morren ed. 10, p. 119; Rehder 1: 37, 92, 2: 19.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1898: 45 (d.).
- Bastin, E.S., Bot. Centralbl. 70(21-22): 303. 1897 (d.).
- Harshberger, J.W., Bot. Philadelphia 330-335. 1899 (biogr. sketch, bibl. of 21 nos.; b. 29 Mai 1843, Azaukee County, Wisc., d. 6 Apr 1897, Philadelphia).
- Trimble, H., Amer. J. Pharm. 69: 385-391. 1897 (obit.).
### Publications
##### n.20.363. Elements of botany
**Title**
*Elements of botany*, including organography, vegetable histology, vegetable physiology, and vegetable taxonomy and a glossary of botanical terms... Chicago (G.P. Engelhard & Company) 1887. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Elem. bot.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Mai-Jun 1887 (preface 22 Apr 1887; Bot. Gaz. Jul 1887, Bot. Centralbl. 8-12 Aug 1887, Bot. Zeit. 26 Aug 1887, Nat. Nov. Jul (1) 1887), p. \[ii\]-xv, \[1\]-282. *Copies*: MO, NY.
*Ed. 2*: 1889 (preface 19 Jan 1889), p. \[i\]-xv, \[xvi\], 1-451. *Copy*: MO. − "*College botany*, including...." being a revised and enlarged edit. of the "Elements of Botany".
*Ed. 3* ("second revision"): 1893, p. \[i\]-xv, \[xvi\], \[1\]-451. *Copy*: MO. − *Elements of botany*, ... vegetable taxonomy, with a brief account of the succession of plants in geologic time, and a glossary of botanical terms. Second revision,... Chicago (id.). 1893. Oct.
*Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Gaz 12(7): 169-170. Jul 1887 (rev.).
- Möbius, M.A.J., Bot. Centralbl. 32(47): 225-226. 21-15 Nov 1887 (rev.).
##### n.20.364. A contribution
**Title**
*A contribution* to the knowledge of *some North American Coniferae*... \[Philadelphia 1897\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Co-author*: H. Trimble.
*Publ*.: Jan-Jul 1897 (as unidentified pamphlet), p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-124, *2 unnumb. pl. Copies*: MO, NY. − Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Pharm. 68: 21-39. Jan, 65-79. Feb, 136-140. Mar, 199-210. Apr, 242-254. Mai, 321-337. Jun, 383-386. Jul, 409-422. Aug, 554-566. Oct, 642-648. Dec 1896, 69: 90-97. Feb, 354-359. Jul 1897.