> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 919](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334058) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10133-1) LSID 10133-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4442570) QID Q4442570 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stevenson, John Albert (1890-1979), American mycologist; studied forestry at the University of Minnesota, B.S. ib. 1912, assistant ib. 1912-1913; plant pathologist in Puerto Rico 1913-1918; pathology inspector Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, D.C. 1919-1925; in charge of foreign agricultural exploration USDA 1925-1927, with the National Fungus Collections at Beltville, Md. 1927-1960; in retirement at Beltsville from 1960-1979. **Abbreviated name**: *J.A. Stevenson* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.A.Stev.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]] ([[Collection US|US]]); further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection IAC|IAC]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 227, 307, 308, 319, 332, 333, 334, 347; Barnhart 3: 328 (b. 16 Jul 1890); BM 8: 1248; Bossert p. 383; IH (ed. 1): 9, (ed. 2): 21, (ed. 3): 24, (4): 26, (ed. 5): 17, (ed. 6): 24, (ed. 7): 343; Kelly p. 219; Lenley p. 387; LS suppl. 26677-26689; MW p. 472; PH 209; Roon p. 108; SIA 223, 7231; Stevenson p. 1259; TL-2/see C.G. Lloyd. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. ed. 3: 656. 1921, 4: 938. 1927, ed. 5: 1068. 1933, ed. 6: 1359-1360. 1938, ed. 7: 1707. 1944, ed. 8: 2394. 1949, ed. 9. 2: 1087. 1955, ed. 10(S-Z): 3922. 1961, ed. 11 (S-Z): 5171. 1967; Plant Press 7(39). 1979; Taxon 29: 170. 1980 (d. 30 Oct 1979); Washington Star 2 Nov 1979(B-4); Who's who Amer. 26: 2639. 1950-1951, 27: 2325. 1952-1953, 28: 2562. 1954-1955, 29: 2468. 1956-1957, 30: 2653. 1958-1959, 31: 2778. 1960-1961; Who's who Nation's Cap. 852. 1934-1935; Who was who Amer. 7: 546. 1977-1981 (d. 30 Oct 1979). - Churgin, S.J. & R. Schallert, J. Soc. bibl. nat. Hist. 9(4): 599. 1980. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 703. 1985. - Plante, H., The Sentinel 19 Mar 1975 (interview, portr.). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 65, 66. 1981. - Stevenson, J.A., Technical writings 1914-1915: (mimeographed list in TL-2 files). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 5: 100. 1939. #### Note Major publications outside our period e.g. *An account of fungi exsiccati containing material from the Americas*, Beih. Nova Hedw. 36, 1971, 563 p. (see e.g. Taxon 21: 351-352. 1972), and *Fungi of Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands*, Reed herbarium, 1975, 743 p. and 55 entries on *Ustilaginales* in *Index nominum genericorum* 1979. #### Eponymy *Mycostevensonia* A.C. Batista et R. Ciferri (1962); *Stevensonula* F. Petrak (1952). *Note*: The derivation of *Stevensonia* Duncan ex I.B. Balfour (1877) was not given. ### Publications ##### n.13.089. Foreign plant diseases **Title** *Foreign plant diseases* a manual of economic plant diseases which are new to or not widely distributed in the United States... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1926. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Foreign pl. diseases*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, p. \[i\]-viii, 1-198. *Copies*: FAS, FH. ##### n.13.090. The new fungus names proposed by C.G. Lloyd **Title** *The new fungus names proposed by C.G. Lloyd*... Bulletin of the Lloyd Library and Museum... Cincinnati Ohio. 1936. **Notes** *Co-author*: Edith Katherine Cash (1890-?). *Publ*.: 1936, p. \[i-ii\], err. sheet, 1-209. *Copies*: BR, FH. – Issued and to be cited as Bull. Lloyd Libr. 35. 1936.