> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 214](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120345) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/784-1) LSID 784-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701108) QID Q1701108 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bigelow, John Milton (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bigelow, John Milton (1804-1878), American surgeon and botanist on the Whipple Expedition. **Abbreviated name**: *J. M. Bigelow* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.M.Bigelow*\] #### Herbarium and types Mainly at [[Collection GH|GH]] and [[Collection MO|MO]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 185; ME 1: 165, 3: 538. - Warren, Pacific Railroad Surv. 11: 76-78. 1859 (itin.). - Sargent, Silva North America 1: 88. 1891. - Dellenbaugh, Frémont and '49. New York and London 1914, p. 507 \[index\]. - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 232, 234. 1940. - Rodgers, John Torrey 336 \[index\]. 1942. - Waller, Papers Dept. Bot., Ohio State Univ. 449: 313-331. 1942 (repr. from Ohio archeol. hist. Quart. 51: 313-331. 1942) (to be used with caution). - Geiser, Naturalists of the frontier 271. 1948. - Howell, Marin flora 30. 1949. - Ewan, Rocky Mountain naturalists 164. 1950. - Ewan, A century of progress in the natural sciences 44. 1955. - Thomas, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 149. 1961. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. U.S. 10, 43, 148. 1969. #### Eponymy For eponyms based on the name Bigelow, cf. supra, sub Jacob Bigelow. ### Publications ##### n.515. Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific **Title** *Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. * War Department. Route near the thirty-fifth parallel, explored by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, topographical engineers, in 1853 and 1854. Report on the Botany of the Expedition. Washington, D.C. 1856 \[Pacific Railroad reports, Senate set vol. 4, part 5\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific*. **Notes** *Publ*.: parts 1-2, by Bigelow, 1856, p. \[i-vii\], *part 1*: \[1\]-16 (General description), *part 2*: \[17\]-26 (description of forest trees), *part 3*: \[27\]-58 (description of the Cactaceae of George Engelmann and J. M. Bigelow. For *part 4* see John Torrey, for *part 5* W. S. Sullivant. *Copies*: MO, U. (Previously published, in part, in the Report of the Secretary of War on the Pacific Railroad Surveys vol. 2, serial no. 737, 1855, see ME 3: 200).