> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 674](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333813) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9796-1) LSID 9796-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5645042) QID Q5645042 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Smith, Hamilton Lanphere (1819-1903), American educator, physicist, astronomer, diatomologist and microscopist; A.M. Yale 1839; professor of astronomy and natural philosophy, Kenyon Coll. 1849-1867; professor of physics and astronomy at Hobart College, N.Y. 1867-1900; in retirement 1900-1903 at Yonkers, N.Y. and New London; LL.D. Trinity 1871. **Abbreviated name**: *H.L. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.L.Sm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]] (orig.); exs.: *Diatomacearum species typicae*, cent. 1-6, nos. 1-600, suppl. nos. 601-650 (-700?) 1876-1888, sets at [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CAHS|CAHS]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TALE|TALE]], (further details: Sayre 1969, p. 99-100). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 292 (b. 5 Nov 1819, d. 1 Aug 1903); BM 4: 1946; Bossert p. 373; CSP 5: 724, 8: 970, 11: 435, 12: 689-690, 18: 805; De Toni 1: cxvii, 2: cviii-cix, cxxv, cxxviii; IH 1 (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 343; ME 3: 657 \[index\]; Morren ed. 10, p. 126; NAF ser. 2. 6: 75; Nordstedt p. 29; TL-2/see L.A. de Brébisson. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 4. 16: 268. 1903 (d.); Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 12: 466. 1904; Science ser. 2. 18: 221. 1903 (d.); Torreya 3: 128. 1903 (d.); New York Times 2 Aug 1903; Who's who Amer. 2: 1047. 1901-1902; Who was who Amer. 1: 1142. 1968. - Deby, J., Bibl. microsc. microgr. Stud. 3, Diat.: 51. 1882. - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 238. 1979. - Freund, H. & A. Berg et al., Gesch. Mikroskopie 21, 39, 220, 357. 1963. - Frison, E., Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck 25, 26, 28, 29, 64, 84. 1959. - Fryxell, G.A., Nova Hedwigia Beih. 35: 363. 1975 (colls.). - Koster, J.T., Taxon 18: 557. 1969 (coll.). - Leonard, J.W., ed., Who's who in Amer. 2: 1047. 1901-1902. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr. lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1258. 1898, 4(2): 1404. 1904 (bibl.). - Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. univ. 472. 1984. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 99-100. 1969 (on *Diatomacearum species typicae*). - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. Diat. 4: 2373-2374. 1971, 6: 3593. 1978, 7: 4230. 1978. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, eds., Appl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 566. 1888. #### Composite works *The Annals of Science*... conducted by H.L. Smith, vols. 1-2 (no. 5), 1852-1854. ### Publications ##### n.12.204. Synopsis des familles et des genres des diatomées **Title** *Synopsis des familles et des genres des diatomées*, par le professeur Hamilton L. Smith, ... traduit par le Dr Henri Van Heurck. Bruxelles (imprimerie de L. Boulard et V. Havaux,...) 1878. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. fam. genr. diat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1878 (date on cover t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-55. *Copies*: US, USGS. – Reprinted from H. Van Heurck, Le microscope, ed. 3, 1878. – For original publication, *Conspectus of the families and genera of the Diatomaceae*, see The Lens (Quart. J. microsc. allied nat. Sci.) 1(1): 1-19. Jan 1872 (*copy*: FH) and subsequent publications in The Lens. ##### n.12.205. A contribution to the life-history of the Diatomaceae **Title** *A contribution to the life-history of the Diatomaceae*... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Amer. Soc. Microsc. 1886-1887. 2 parts. Oct. **Notes** *1*: 1886, cover, \[i-iii\], \[1\]-37, *pl. 1-5* (col.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Amer. microsc. Soc. 1886: 30-66. *pl. 1-3*. *2*: Sep-Dec 1887, cover, \[i\], \[39\]-80, *pl. 1-6* (col.). – Id. 1887: 126-167, *pl. 1-6*. 1887.