> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 158](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259662) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4894172) QID Q4894172 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fernow, Bernhard Eduard (1851-1923), German-born American forester and dendrologist, born 7 Jan 1851 in Inowraclaw (Hohensalza), Posen (Prussia, now Poland), attended forest acad. in Münden 1870-1873, studied law in Königsberg from 1874, came to the U.S.A. in 1876, married an American citizen, naturalized 1883, chief, Division of Forestry, U.S.D.A., Washington, D.C. 1886-1898, LL.D. 1896 Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, dir. of the first American school of forestry at Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York 1898-1903, later, from 1907, dean of the first Canadian school of forestry in Toronto, died 6 Feb 1923 in Toronto. **Abbreviated name**: *Fernow* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]. – The Bernhard Eduard Fernow papers, 1885-1930, are in the Cornell Univ. Division of Rare and Mss. Collections. #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 4: 219-220; Barnhart 1: 537; BL 1: 226, 295; BM 6: 322; Bossert p. 125; CSP 14: 973; DAB 6: 336-337; Ewan ed. 1: 208, ed. 2: 73-74; Ewan Pap. p. 68; Langman p. 280; Lenley p. 165; NDB 5: 98; NW p. 45 (index); Portr. 1: 61 (index), 3: 426; Rehder 5(index): 276; TL-2/4: 1170, 2/5: 1029 (indices); Tucker 1: 245-246, 773, 2: xvi, 3: 106. #### Biofile - Anon. \["X"\], Science, ser. 2, 57: 255-256. 1923; A catalog of the Edward L. Greene collection: 121. 1986. - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 194; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 249; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 381. - Carpenter, M.M., 1953. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 285. (as "Bernard") - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 142. - Greeley, W.B., 1923. J. Forestry 21: 305-348. (portr.) - McVaugh, R., 1972. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 9(3): 234-235. - Reiger, J.F., 1986. American sportsmen and the origins of conservation, Norman (Univ. of Oklahoma): 311 (index). (portr. p. 194) - Rodgers, A.D., 1951. Bernard Eduard Fernow: a story of North American forestry: 623 p. (portr.) \[reprinted 1968 and 1991\] \[*see*: Loehr, R.C., Mississippi Hist. Rev. 38(2): 339-341. Sep 1951 (rev.); Little, S., Jr., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 78(6): 469-470. Nov-Dec 1951 (rev.)\] - Wellman, J.D., 1987. Wildland recreation policy: an introduction, New York (John Wiley & Sons): 71-37, 77, 78. (portr.) #### Eponymy Fernow Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York. #### Composite works - (1) Scientific editor, *USDA, Division of Forestry, Bulletin* Nos. 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, at least (1896-1898, at least). - (2) Revised, edited and published a previously unpublished draft of V.M. Spalding, *The White Pine*... 1899, see TL-2/5, nr. 12.525. ### Publications ##### n.34.395. Forest conditions **Title** *Forest conditions* of the high *Sierra Maestra* in *Cuba*... \[from Forestry Quarterly ... 1906\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1906 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[239\]-273. *Copies*: NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Forest. Quart. 4(4): 239-273. 1906. *Note*: (1) Incorporated in the reprint: 1. A survey in the tropics, p. \[239\]-258; 2. List of *trees *on the *Sierra Maestra*, p. \[259\]-269; and 3. Taylor, Norman (1883-1967), *Botanical notes *on the *vegetation* of the *High Maestra*, p. \[270\]-273. (2) Taylor, author of part 3, who was then a museum asst. at the New York Botanical Garden, later established a reputation as an horticultural writer.