> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 430](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355517) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23293-1) LSID 23293-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18343965) QID Q18343965 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Merrill, George Knox (1864-1927), American lichenologist, journalist and photographer; active at Rockland, Maine were he kept an art studio. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Merr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Merr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FH|FH]] (50.000). *Exsiccatae*: *Lichenes exsiccati*, fasc. 1-11, nos. 1-275 (1909-1913), ser. 2, fasc. 1-6, nos. 1-150, (1925-1927); for sets see IH, for dates etc. see Sayre and Stevenson. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 479; Bossert p. 264; GR p. 193, cat. p. 68; IH 2: 529; Kelly p. 148, 255; LS 17728-17731, 36924-36937, suppl. 18269-18289; NW p. 53; SBC p. 127 ("Merr."). - Anon., Bryologist 30: 96. 1927; Flora 14(2) Int. Bl. 3: 8. 1831 (sale herb., libr.). - Burnham, S. H., Bryologist 31(4): 74. 1928. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 95. 1969. - Laundon, J. R., Lichenologist 11: 14. 1979 (lichen herb. at FH). - Norton, A. H., Maine Natural. 7(4): 161-163. 1927. - Plitt, C. C., Bryologist 31(4): 20, 24, 65-71. 1928 (portr., bibl., b. 16 Oct 1864, d. 21 Oct 1927). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 147-148. 1969. - Stevenson, J., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 253. 1971 (exsicc.). - Urban, I., Gesch. Bot. Mus. Berlin-Dahlem 289. 1916.