> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 20](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259524) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5739969) QID Q5739969 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fairchild, Herman Le Roy (1850-1943), American geologist who published on fossil plants, born 29 Apr 1850 in Montrose, Penn., B.Sci. 1874 Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, teacher of natural sciences, Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Penn. 1874-1876, lecturer, private schools and Cooper Union, New York City 1877-1888, prof. of geology, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, New York 1888-1920, prof. emeritus 1920, Marsh Panama-Darien exped. 1924, Dr. h.c. 1910 Univ. of Pittsburgh, also a founder of Geological Soc. America, died 29 Nov 1943 in Rochester. **Abbreviated name**: *H.L. Fairchild* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Mss. in Rush Rhees Library, Univ. of Rochester (Herman Le Roy Fairchild papers) and Victor Historical Society/Valentown Museum, Fishers, New York (Fairchild-Field family papers, 1827-1975). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 7: 541; Barnhart 1: 524; BJI 1: 18; BM 6: 312; CSP 9: 824, 12: 230, 14: 915; ME 1: 50; PH p. 398 (index); Quenstedt p. 134; Sarjeant Suppl. 1: 412; Tucker 3: 102. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 466. 1931. - Berkey, C.P., 1944. Science, ser. 2, 99: 271-273. - Chadwick, G.H., 1945. Proc. Vol. Geol. Soc. America 1944: 185-222, *pl. 10.* (autobiogr. notes, sel. bibl., biogr., portr.) - Diels, L. & J. Mildbraed, 1904. General Register Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 18. - Fairchild, H.L., 1932. Published writings of Herman LeRoy Fairchild, 1877-1932 \[Rochester, New York\] (Privately published?): \[1\]-15. (bibl.) \[*Copy*: NY\] - Siefert-Dudley, J., 1998. Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. 18(3): 18-32. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske (eds.), 1898. Appletons' Cyclopedia 2: 401. ### Publications ##### n.33.730. decorticated leaf-scars **Title** No. 1. – On the variations of the *decorticated leaf-scars* of certain *Sigillariæ*... From the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences... \[1879\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (read 4 Jun 1877), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-5, *pl. 3-4* (uncol. draw. by auth.). *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1(2): 42-45, *pl. 3-4.* 1879. – In series, On the *structure* of *Lepiododendron and Sigillaria*, nr. 1. ##### n.33.731. leaf scars of Lepidodendron aculeatum **Title** No. 2. – Variations of the *leaf scars of Lepidodendron aculeatum*, Sternberg... From the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences... \[1879\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (read 1 Oct 1877), cover-t.p., p. \[77\]-91, *pl. 5-9* (uncol. draw. by auth.). *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1(3): 77-91, *pl. 5-9.* 1879. – In series, On the *structure* of *Lepiododendron and Sigillaria*, nr. 2. ##### n.33.732. Identity **Title** No. 3 – On the *Identity* of certain *supposed species* of *Sigillaria* with S. lepidodendrifolia, Brongt.... From the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences... \[1879\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (read 1 Apr 1878), cover-t.p., p. 129-133, *pl. 10* (uncol. draw. by auth.). *Copies*: BKL, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1(5): 129-133, *pl. 10.* 1879. – In series, On the *structure* of *Lepiododendron and Sigillaria*, nr. 12.