> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 657](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355744) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6757-1) LSID 6757-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379580) QID Q379580 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Muir, John (1838-1914), Scottish-born American conservationist, botanist and explorer of California and Alaska. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Muir* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Muir*\] #### Herbarium and types Some material at [[Collection MO|MO]]. – *Note*: The entry in IH 2: 567 is a combination of collections by John Muir of California (1838-1914) and Dr. John Muir of South Africa (1874-1947, also born in Scotland; Dr. med. Edinburgh 1896; to S. Africa 1896, see e.g. E. C. Nelson, J. S. Afr. Bot. 44(2): 187-200. 1978). For Thomas Muir (1833-1926) who collected for F. von Mueller see e.g. Desmond, p. 455. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 526; BL 1: 132, 310; BM 3: 1374; Bossert p. 276; CSP 8: 454, 10: 884, 17: 415; DAB (by Wm. F. Badè) 13: 314-317; Desmond p. 455; IH 2: 567; Plesch p. 344; Rehder 5: 601; Tucker 1: 507. - Anderson, M. B., Amer. Mus. J. 15(3): 117-121. 1915 (obit., portr.). - Anon., Who was who 1897-1916: 512; Mazama 2(2): 92-93. 1901 (obit., portr.). - Badé, W. F., Science ser. 2. 41: 353-354. 1915 (obit.); The life and letters of John Muir, Boston and New York 1924, 2 vols., Mich., ix, 399 and 454 p. (portr.; b. 21 Apr 1838, d. 24 Dec 1914). - Ewan, J., *in* Cent. nat. sci. 56. 1955. - Grinell, F., Entomol. News 26: 95-96. 1915. - Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 304 (Alaskan itin.). - Iltis, H. H., Wisconsin Academy Review, Spring 1975, 5 p. (portr.) - Muir, J., West of the Rocky Mountains, New York 1888, reprint Philadelphia ca. 1976; The cruise of the Corwin. Journal of the Arctic expedition of 1881 in search of DeLong and the Jeannette. Edited by W. F. Badé, Boston 1917, xxxi, 238 p; The story of my boyhood and youth, with a foreword of Vernon Carstensen, Madison 1965, xviii, 227 p.; Rambles of a botanist among the plants and climates of California. Los Angeles, Calif. 1974, 43 p. (portr., introd. by William F. Kimes on p. 11-13). - Nelson, E. C., J. S. Afr. Bot. 44(2): 187-200. 1978 (corr. Muir/Matilda C. Knowles). - Norman, C., John Muir, father of our national parks. New York, 1957, 191 p. - Rodgers, A. D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 333 \[index\]. 1944. - Sprague, R., Mycologia 50: 827. 1959 (epon.). - Strother, J., Worlds work 17: 11355-11358. 1909 ("Three days with John Muir"). - Sutton, S. B., Charles Sprague Sargent 378 \[index\]. 1970. - Teale, E. W., The wilderness world of John Muir, with an introduction and interpretive comments. Boston 1954, xx, 332 p. *Note*: For further biographical references see Joseph, B. & C. W. Squires, eds., Biography index 1: 682. 1949, 2: 702-703. 1953, 3: 683-1956, 4: 599. 1960, 5: 522. 1962, 6: 422. 1965, 8: 485-486. 1971. #### Eponymy *Muirella* R. Sprague (1959). – The John Muir Memorial Park and Muir's Lake, Wisconsin, U.S.A. – *Muiria* C. A. Gardner (1933) is named after "Sir Thomas Muir of Warungu, Morden \[Australia\], who accompanied me on the two occasions when this plant was collected." *Muiria* N. E. Brown (1927) [^1] was named after a John Muir (and his daughter Hortense Muir) who was still alive in 1927 and who sent living material of the plant concerned to the author. #### Postage stamps U.S.A. 5 c. (1964) yv. 760. ### Publications ##### n.6539. The cruise of the Corwin **Title** *The cruise of the Corwin* journal of the Arctic expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeannette... edited by William Frederic Badè. Boston and New York (Houghton Mifflin Company...) 1917. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cruise Corwin*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1917, p. \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-279. *Copy*: MICH. *Reprint*: s.d. p. \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-303, \[304\]. *Copy*: NY. [^1]: "*Muiria* N.E.Br. 1927 (Aizoaceae) \[is dedicated to\] John Muir (1874–1947), Scottish physician, naturalist, cultural historian in South Africa; his daughter Hortense (Mrs. H.J. Stabbet, f l. 1927) who gave living plants to the author, got the type species *Muiria hortenseae* (Gunn, 1996: 3–4)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)