> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 40](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258480) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2920-1) LSID 2920-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21513553) QID Q21513553 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Friesner, Ray Clarence (1894-1952), American plant taxonomist and ecologist, born 8 Feb 1894 in Bremen, Ohio, A.B. 1916 Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Delaware, Ohio, Ph.D. 1919 Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, asst. prof. 1919, assoc. prof. 1922, prof. 1925, "Head" 1920-1952, Dept. of Botany, and dean 1947-1952, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, all Butler Univ., Indianapolis, Indiana, secretary1926-1935 and president 1936, Indiana Academy of Science, Dr. h.c. 1951 Ohio Wesleyan Univ., died 1 Dec 1952 in Indianapolis (buried in Bremen, Ohio). **Abbreviated name**: *Friesner* \[standard form in IPNI: *Friesner*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BUT|BUT]] (25,500, incl. field books), duplicates [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection DUKE|DUKE]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection LAS|LAS]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OKLA|OKLA]], [[Collection POM|POM]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection WAB|WAB]] (now [[Collection NY|NY]]), [[Collection WS|WS]], [[Collection WVA|WVU]]. – Some corr. at [[Collection HU|HU]]. #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci., ed. 8: 837; APN p. 211; Barnhart 2: 12; Hirsch p. 90; IF suppl. 4: 322, 324; IH 2: 210 (excluding Colombia); Pennell p. 607; Tucker 3: 112. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 470. 1931; Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 11: 103-111. 1954. (bibl.: 47 entries; portr.) - Bowman, H.H.M. et al., 1953. Ohio J. Sci. 53: 251. (obit.) - Burgess, R.L., 1996. Huntia 10: 44. - Dolan, R.W., 1991. Brittonia 43: 54-56. (Friesner Herb.) - Edington, W.E., 1953 \[1954\]. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 63: 32-34. (obit., portr.) - Jones, J.J., 1954. Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 11: 103-104 (portr. on p. \[ii\]), 107-110. (bibl.) - Masson, V.J., 1994. Brittonia 46: 220. (herb.) - Potzger, J.E., 1945. Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 7: 6. - Potzger, J.E., 1954. Castanea 19: 126-127. (obit., portr.) - Stieber, M.T. & A.L. Karg, 1984. Huntia 5: 193 \[=157\]. #### Eponymy Friesner Herb. (BUT), Butler Univ., Indianapolis, Indiana. #### Festschrift Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 11(papers 8-17): 103-209. Nov. 1954 (with portr. on p. \[ii\]) "dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ray C. Friesner by the former majors in the Botany Department of Butler University (1920-1952) and by his collegues on the faculty of Butler University" (see also Anon., 1954 above). #### Composite works Editor, *Butler University Botanical Studies*, vols. 2-10 (1931-1952). ### Publications ##### n.35.679. Solidago **Title** The genus *Solidago* in *Northeastern North America*... Indianapolis \[Butler University\] 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 30 Apr 1933 (in journal), cover t-p., p. 1-64. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Butler Univ. Bot. Stud. 3(1): 1-64. 1933. – Alternate series, Contr. Bot. Lab. Butler Univ. 44. ##### n.35.680. Indiana **Title** *Indiana* as a *critical botanical area*... Reprinted from the Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. ... 1937. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1937, cover-t.p., p. 28-45. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 46: 28-45. 1937. *Note*: Based on a Presidential address delivered 6 Nov 1936.