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### 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.