> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 79](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259583) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13402-1) LSID 13402-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21512731) QID Q21512731 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Featherman, Americus (1822-1891, or later), German-born American physician, novelist, botanist and anthropologist, born 1822 in Göttingen (probably as Federmann and possibly with a different first name), came to the U.S.A. at age 17, studied medicine in Paris 1847-1850 and practiced in Missouri, asst. examiner, Confederate Patent Office, Richmond, Virginia 1862-1865, prof. of romance languages and botany, Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy (later Louisiana State Univ.), Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1869-1872, returned to Europe (and Paris) 1875. **Abbreviated name**: *Featherm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Featherm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection LSU|LSU]] (rec'd. ca. 1930), [[Collection NY|NY]] (Bryoph.), [[Collection P|P]] (105). – Mss. letters (few) in [[Collection LSU|LSU]] Libraries. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 196; Barnhart 1: 531; BL 1: 184, 295; Ewan Pap. p. 67; GR p. 76; IH 2: 192; Lenley p. 455; NAF ser. 2(5): 238, ser. 2(6): 63; Pennell p. 606. #### Biofile - Brown, C.A., 1944. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sci. 8: 35-47. - Ewan, J.A., 2005. Sida 21: 2285, notes 60, 61. - Koch, L.F., 1956. Bryologist 59: 193. - MacRoberts, D.T., 1984. Bull. Mus. Life Sci., Louisiana State Univ. 6: 13-14, 134. - MacRoberts, M.H. & B.R. MacRoberts, 2004. Sida 21: 1149-1152. (handwr.) ### Publications ##### n.33.999. botany **Title** Report on the *botany* of *Louisiana*... \[New Orleans (s.l.)\] 1870. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1870 (p. 114 signed Jan 1870), p. \[111\]-122. *Copies*: HH, LC (n.v.), MICH (n.v.). – Published in and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Board Supervisors Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, for the year ending December 31, 1869, to the governor. 1870. *Followed by*: (1) Report of *botanical survey* of southern and central *Louisiana* made during the year 1870... New Orleans (printed at the Office of the Republican...), t.p., p. \[1\]-131, 1 map (col. fold.) 1871. Oct. (*Rep. Bot. Surv. S. & Centr. Louisiana*). *Copies*: HH (map wanting), LC (n.v.), MO (map wanting), NY, NYPL (n.v.) – Published in and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Board Supervisors Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, for the year ending December 31, 1870. – *Note*: p. \[3\] signed 7 Jan 1871. - (2) *Third* annual report of *botanical survey* of southwest and northwest *Louisiana*, made during the year 1871... New Orleans (printed at the Republican Office), p. \[101\]-161. 1872. Oct. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Published in and to be cited from Ann. Rept. of Prof. D\[avid\]. F. Boyd, Superintendent Louisiana State Univ., for the year 1871, to the governor of the state of Louisiana. 1871. – *Note*: p. \[101\] signed 7 Jan 1872. *Ref*.: G\[ray\]., A., Amer. J. Sci., ser. 3, 2: 374-375. \[Nov\] 1871 (Rev. of *Rep. Bot. Surv. S. & Centr. Louisiana*). - Wycoff, E., Bibl. Contr. Lloyd Library 1: 372. 1913. (n.v.) - Foote, L.B., 1942. Bibl. Official publications Louisiana, 1803-1934 (American imprints inventory, No. 19): 307, 341-343. - Ewan, J., Southw. Louisiana J. 7: 29-30. 1967 \[1968\]. - *Note*: (1) Pages \[71\]-130 of the 1871 publication may be subtitled "*Flora Ludoviciana*". (2) The William Jones Rhees Collection (SIA) contains a "final report of the Botanical Survey of Louisiana by Americus Featherman, 1872", which may represent the "Third... botanical survey...." (3) Act. No. 72 passed by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1869 obligated professors of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy to spend four months of each year in survey work in their respective fields. Consequently, the three reports also often are bound with other Louisiana official publications and are reprinted as "Legislative Documents".