> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 28](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189461) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7281-1) LSID 7281-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048655) QID Q3048655 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Palmer, Edward (1831-1911), English-born American surgeon and botanist; professional collector of botanical, archeological and ethnological materials; emigrated to the U.S. 1849; from then on travelling and collecting mainly in the American West and in Mexico. **Abbreviated name**: *Ed. Palmer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Palmer*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]] (major collections), other important holdings at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]]; further material in many herbaria (see e.g. Knobloch 1979). Extensive details on itineraries, location of main sets and references to lists of identification and related taxonomic papers based on Palmer are found in McVaugh (1956). – Main repositories of letters and other archival material: Smithsonian Archives and Harvard University. Palmer is estimated to have collected some 100.000 specimens. For exsiccatae (algae) see Sayre (1969). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 44; BB p. 235; Bl 1: 162, 311; Bossert p. 298; CSP 10: 984; Desmond p. 476; DSB 10: 285-286; Ewan, ed. 1: 40, 276-277, ed. 2: 166-167; IH 1 (ed. 6): 362, (ed. 7): 339, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 216; Langman p. 562-563; Lenley p. 320, 465; ME 3: 159, 163; Pennell p. 615; PH 164; Rehder 5: 646. #### Biofile - Anon., Entom. News 22: 239. 1911. - Barnhart, J.H., New York Bot. Gard. 32: 40-41. 1911 (b. 12 Jan 1831, d. 10 Apr 1911). - Beaty, J.J., Pacific Discovery 17: 10-15. 1964 (portr., popular account with many ills.); Plants in his pack, New York 1964, 182 p. (biogr.). - Blake, S.F., Madrono 16(1): 1-4. 1961 (Palmer’s visit to Guadeloupe Isl., Mexico). - Bye, R.A., Jr., in D.D. Fowler, ed., Great Basin cultural ecology, Reno, Nevada 1972, p. 87-104 (ethnobotany Paiute Indians and Ed. Palmer); Econ. Bot. 33(2): 135-162. 1980 (Palmer’s first major Mex. coll., 1878, San Luis Potosi). - Cantelow, E.D. & H.C., Leafl. w. Bot. 8: 96-97. 1957 (eponyms given by A. Eastwood). - Coates, R.A., Great amer. natural. 48-53. 1974. - Geiser, S.W., Men of science in Texas 167. 1959. - Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index coll. Edinb. herb. 116. 1970. - Hitchcock, A.S. & A. Chase, Man. grasses U.S. 988. 1951 (epon.). - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 50, 51 (pl. K). - Jaeger, E.C., Source-book biol. names terms ed. 3. 318. 1966. - Knobloch, I.W., Plant. coll. N. Mexico 52. 1979 (b. 12 Jan 1831, d. 10 Apr 1911; the erroneous birth year 1821, often quoted, goes back to a typographic error in Safford(1911)). - McVaugh, R. & Kearney, T.H., Amer. midl. Natural. 29(3): 768-778. 1943 (P’s coll. in Arizona 1869, 1876, 1877, itin.). - McVaugh, R., Brittonia 5(1): 64. 1943 (P on La Plata exped. 1853-1855); Edward Palmer, plant explorer of the American West. Norman 1956, xvii, 430 p. (main biography and bibliography; very detailed information on itineraries and collections); Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 288-289. 1972. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH)1: 172. 1904 (3.196 spec, at BM). - Palmer, T.S., Condor 30: 290-291. 1928 (ornithol. eponymy). - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 334 \[index\]. 1944; John Torrey 298-300. 1942. - Rose, J.N., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 63-90, 91-116, 117-127, 129-134, 293-392. 1890-1895 (identification of pl. coll. 1889-1892). - Safford, W.E., Amer. Fern J. 1(6): 143-147. 1911; Pop. Sci. Mon. 78: 341-354. 1911 (b. 12 Jan 1821, err. for 1831, biogr., portr.). Bot. Gaz. 52(1): 61-63. 1911 (obit., portr.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 91-92. 1969 (on *Algae floridanae* and *Algae bahamenses*); Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 376-377. 1975. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 84. 1981 (arch. mat. HU). - Thomas, J.H, Huntia 3: 16, 17. 1969, 1979 (portr.). - Wiggins, I., Fl. Baja Calif. 42. 1980. #### Handwriting McVaugh, R., Edward Palmer 1956, *pl*. opposite p. 142-143. #### Eponymy *Malperia* S. Watson (1889); *Palmerella* A. Gray (1876); *Palmerocassia* Britton (1930).