> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1004](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190475) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/25913-1) LSID 25913-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4390386) QID Q4390386 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Russell, John Lewis (1808-1873), American botanist; Unitarian clergyman and botanist at Salem, Mass.; A.B. Harvard 1828, A.M. id. 1836; Div. school id. 1831; vicar at Chelmsford, Hingham, Brattleboro, Kennebunk (Mass.); from 1853 again at Salem devoting himself to cryptogamic botany and writing of popular articles on natural history in addition to occasional preaching. **Abbreviated name**: *J.L. Russell* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.L.Russell*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr), [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NEBC|NEBC]] (lich.), [[Collection VT|VT]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 342 (b. 2 Dec 1808, d. 7 Jun 1873); GR p. 196; GR, cat. p. 70; Herder p. 18; Lenley p. 468; ME 1: 226, 3: 648 \[index\]; SBC p. 130; Urban-Berl. p. 290. #### Biofile - Anon., Bryologist 82: 511. 1979 (portr.); Bull. Essex Inst. 5: 51, 103-104, 108-109. 1874; Meehan's Monthly 3: 78-79. 1903; Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 321. 1874 (obit.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 92. 1969. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 224, 225, 226, 249, 334. 1967. - Robinson, J., Bull. Essex Inst. 12: 92. 1880. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 516. 1977 (bryol. coll. at BUF, FH, VT). - Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 91. 1966. ### Publications ##### n.9829. Hydrothyria venosa **Title** *Hydrothyria venosa*, a new genus and species of the Collemaceae. Read before the Essex Institute, June 8, 1853, by John Lewis Russell,... \[Proc. Essex Inst. 1, 1856\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1856, p. \[1\]-12. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Essex Inst. 1: 188-191. 1856.