> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 333](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260321) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5536743) QID Q5536743 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Emerson, George Barrell (1797-1881), American educator and botanist, born 12 Sep 1797 in Kennebunk (Maine), graduated from Harvard 1817, in charge of an academy in Lancaster (Mass.), tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard 1819-1821, in 1821 declined a professorship of mathematics in Harvard, headed a Boston private school 1823-1855, helped to organize the American Institute of Instruction, died 14 Mar 1881 at Newton (Mass.). **Abbreviated name**: *G.B. Emers.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 507; BL 1: 186, 295; BM 2: 525; Bossert p. 116; Jackson p. 364; Kew 2: 188; ME 1: 182, 3: 571; NAF 28B(2): 328; PR: 2627; Rehder 5(index): 256; Tucker 1: 229; Zander ed. 10, p. 656. ed. 11, p. 746. #### Biofile - Anon., Appletons' Cycl. Amer. biogr. 2: 342. 1896; Concise dict. Amer. biogr. 271. 1964. - Clarke, J.M., James Hall of Albany 559 (index). 1923. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 465 (index). 1967. - Kastner, J., A world of naturalists 273. 1978. - Stieber, M.T. and A.L. Karg, Huntia 5(3): 178. 1984. - Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 374 (index). 1970. ### Publications ##### n.32.884. report **Title** A *report* on the *trees* and *shrubs* growing naturally in the forests of *Massachusetts*. Published agreeably to an order of the legislature, by the commissioners on the zoological and botanical survey of the State... Boston (Dutton and Wentworth,...) 1846. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Rep. trees shrubs Mass.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1846 (p. iii signed 19 Sep 1846), p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-534, \[535 expl. pl.\], *pl. 1-17 *(uncol. liths.), \[537\]-547 (index). *Copies*: BKL, G, HH, MO, NY; IDC 7533/2; PR: 2676. *Issue 1850*: p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-534, \[535\], *pl. 1-17*, \[537\]-547. *Copies*: B, NY. – "Boston (Charles C. Little & James Brown) 1850". *Ed. 2*: 1875, Boston (Little, Brown and Company), Vol. 1: \[i\]-xxii, \[xxiii\], \[1\]-318. Vol 2: \[i\]-ix, \[319\]-611, \[613\]-624 (index). *Copies*: HH, MO. *Ed. 3*: 1878, Vol 1: \[i\]-xxii, \[xxiii\], \[1\]-318, *6 col., 75 uncol pl.* Vol 2: \[i\]-x, \[xi\], \[319\]-624, *29 col., 39 uncol pl.* (index). *Copies*: HH, NY, U. *Ed. 4*: 1887, Vol 1: \[i\]-xxii, \[xxiii\], \[1\]-318 + *pl. Copy*: MO. Vol 2: not seen but apparently same as ed. 3. *Ed. 5*: 1903 (date on p. \[1\]), Vol 1: \[i\]-xxii, \[xxiii\], \[1\]-318, *81 uncol pl*. Vol 2: \[i\]-x, \[xi\], \[319\]-624, *67 uncol. pl. Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: Anon., Hooker's London J. Bot. 7: 560-561. 1848 (rev.).