> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 218](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258696) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3148-1) LSID 3148-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18984952) QID Q18984952 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gillespie, John Wynn (1901-1932), American botanist, A.M. 1926 Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Calif. (thesis entitled "Notes on the fungus Dicaeoma evadens..."), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Fellow, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn., during which period he visited Fiji Jul 1927-Apr 1928, Research Associate in Botany, Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1928-1932, Ph.D. 1930 Stanford Univ., Natl. Research Fellowship, Gray Herb., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass., appointed prof. of botany, Arizona State Teachers College (now Arizona State Univ.), Tempe 1932, visited Kew summer 1932 and died of pneumonia on 13 Sep 1932 in Albany, Georgia, U.S.A. while enroute home. **Abbreviated name**: *Gillespie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gillespie*\] #### Note His wife, Doris Kildale Gillespie (subsequently Niles) (1903-1995), also received an A.M. (1927) and Ph.D. (1931) from Stanford Univ., assumed her husband's position in Tempe after his death, then taught at the Humboldt Normal School (1927-1930) and Humboldt State Univ. (1930-1950), both Arcata, Calif., and finally the Univ. of Calif. at Davis (1960-1990). From 1982-1990, she published 20 illus. booklets in the Humboldt Co. Science Series, many on Calif. botany. She is commemorated by *Dorisia* Gillespie (1933). #### Herbarium and types Fiji: [[Collection BISH|BISH]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection US|US]] and elsewhere; Panama: [[Collection DS|DS]]; s.w. U.S.A. and Mexico: [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Corr. in [[Collection GH|GH]] (Archives). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 227; Barnhart 2: 49; BL 1: 108 (sub Seemann); Ewan Pap. 78; IH 2: 225, 1154 (sub Wiggins); Tucker 3: 119. #### Biofile - Anon., Science, ser. 2, 66: 370. 1927 (Yale fellowship); Intl. address book botanists: 472. 1931; Science, ser. 2, 76: 289. 1932. - Gregory, H.E., 1930. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 78: 15-16. - Gregory, H.E., 1931. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 82: 13-14. - Gregory, H.E., 1932. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 94: 12. - Gregory, H.E., 1933. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 106: 11. - Keck, D.D., 1933. Madroño 2: 111. - Lindsay, G.E., \[1961\]. Notes concerning bot. explor. of Lower Calif., Mexico: 60. - Merrill, E.D., 1947. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 30(1): 130. (bibl.) - Smith, A.C., 1979. Fl. vitiensis nova 1: 57 (sub Parks), 75. ### Publications ##### n.36.442. New plants **Title** *New plants* from *Fiji*... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the Museum) 1930-1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*1*\]: Jul 1930 (p. \[3\] of Part II), cover-t.p., frontisp. (uncol. phot.), p. \[1\]-99 \[p. 43-99 as figs. (i.e. pl.) 1-57 (uncol. draw.)\]. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), US. – Issued as Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 74: 1-99. 1930. *2*: 1931, cover-t.p., p. i-ii, \[1\]-72 \[p. \[2\] phot. (uncol.), p. 33-72 as figs. (i.e. pl.) 1-40 (uncol. draw.)\]. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), US. – Id. 83: 1-72. 1931. *3*: 5 Jan 1932 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. i-ii, \[3\]-81 \[p. 39-81 as figs. (i.e. pl.) 1-43 (uncol. draw.)\]. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), US. – Id. 91: 1-81. 1932. *Illus*.: Signed draw. by Sperry, Helen (née Gillespie), the author's sister; unsigned draw. by the author. *Microfilm* \[I-III\]: 1997,... Ann Arbor (Univ. of Michigan, Univ. Library, Preservation Office Microfilming Unit), 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Reprint* \[I-III\]: 1971,... New York (Kraus Reprint). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Note*: This series of papers is based, in part, on his unpubl. Ph.D. thesis entitled "*The sympetalae of Fiji*", 238 lvs. *Copies*: MO (photocopy), Stanford Univ. (n.v.).