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### Author
Newcombe, Frederick Charles (1858-1927), American botanist (plant physiologist); Dr. phil. Leipzig 1893; Instructor of botany (from 1905 full professor of botany) at the University of Michigan 1890-1923; in retirement at Honolulu 1923-1927.
**Abbreviated name**: *F. C. Newcombe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Newc.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
No specimens at [[Collection MICH|MICH]] (info. R. McVaugh).
#### Note
Not to be confused with the English-born Canadian botanist Charles Frederick Newcombe (1851-1924).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 548; Bossert p. 285; CSP 17: 505-506; Hirsch p. 213: Kelly p. 161; Lenley p. 314; LS 18928; Moebius p. 316; NW p. 54; Rehder 1: 134.
- Anon., Amer. Men Sci. 233. 1906; Honolulu Star Bulletin, 3 Oct 1927 (no.62);Jahrb. wiss. Bot. 56: 822. 1915 (Schüler Pfeffers); Nat. Nov. 25: 321. 1903 (president Michigan Acad. Sci., Detroit), 27: 427. 1905 (prof. bot. Ann Arbor).
- Bartlett, H. H., Proc. Mich. Acad. Sci. 1928: 78-80.
- Dörfler, J., Botaniker-Adressbuch 206. 1896.
- Humphrey, H. B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 186-188. 1961.
- Pollock, J. B. & H. H. Bartlett, Amer. J. Bot. 15(1):. 1-5. 1928 (obit., bibl., portr.; 8 Mai 1858, d. 1 Oct 1927; introduction to memorial volume; the portrait is a reproduction of a painting by Leon Makielski, at Univ. Mich.).
- Voss, E. G., Contr. Univ. Mich. herb. 13: 73. 1978.
#### Composite works
First editor-in-chief *American Journal of Botany* vols. 1-4, 1914-1917.
#### Memorial volume
Amer. J. Bot., volume 15, for 1928.