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> [!example] See also [[Bailey, Jacob Whitman|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Bailey, Jacob Whitman (1811-1857), American teacher, cadet at West Point 1828, assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, 1834-1857, amateur botanist mainly interested in diatoms.
**Abbreviated name**: *J.W. Bailey* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bailey*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection FH|FH]] (rd. 1941). − The collections of the U.S. Expl. Exp. (*algae* described by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey, see TL-2/239), are at [[Collection US|US]] and [[Collection FH|FH]]; some musci in [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection PH|PH]]. − Correspondence with J.C. Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 105; BM 1: 86; Bossert p. 21; CSP 1: 155-156, 6: 574, 9: 98; DAB 1: 498; De Toni 1: viii-ix, 2: ix-xi, lxiii, 4: iv; IH (ed. 5): 355, 2: 49; Jackson p. 518 (index); Kew 1: 121-122; Lenley p. 445-446 (corr. Torrey); LS 1543-1544; LS suppl. 1561-1564; ME 1: 161, 3: 531-532 (bibl.); Moebius p. 196, 368; MW p. 25; Nickles p. 56-57; Nordstedt p. 7; PR p. 12, ed. 1: 416; Quenstedt p. 17; TL-2/1: 93-94; TR p. 18; Tucker 1: 90.
#### Biofile
- Aderhold, R.F.T., Gen.-Reg Bot. Zeit. 96. 1895.
- Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 23: 447-448. 1857.
- Bailey, W.W., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 19: 271-272. 1829 (extract diary).
- Bartlett, H.H., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 82: 679-682. 1940 (on *Lower crypt*., U.S. Expl. Exp.).
- Benjamin, M., Proc. Amer. Ass. Adv. Sci. 48: 418-419. 1899.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 328.6. 1980.
- Clarke, J.M., James Hall of Albany 139, 171, 178, 194, 323. 1923.
- Coulter, St., Bot. Gaz. 13(5): 118-124. 1888 (obit., bibl., b. 29 Apr 1811 Ward (Auburn), Worcester County, Mass.; d. 27 Feb 1857, West Point, N.Y.).
- Cupp, E.E., Mar. plankton diat. W. Coast N. Amer. 210. 1943.
- Deby, J., Bibl. microsc. 3: 3-4. 1882.
- Edgar, R.K., Occ. Pap. Farlow Herb. 11: 1-26. 1977 (main bibl.), 14: 9-33. 1979 (J.W.B. and diatom, Wilkes Expl. Exp. 1838-1842), 16: 43-58. 1981 (origin diatom biology in America); The Jacob Whitman Bailey Diatom collection at the Farlow Herbarium, Farlow Herb., Harvard Univ. 1978, 155 p.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 42, 77. 1969.
- Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon: Dict. bot. 1: 350. 1877.
- Fryxell, G.A., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 35: 360. 1975 (diat. at FH, OS, PH).
- Gray, A., Proc. Amer. Ass. Adv. Sci. 11: 2-9. 1858 (publ. 1860).
- Harvey, W.H. and J.W. Bailey, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 3: 370-373. 1851; Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Sci. 6: 430-434. 1853 (on *Lower Crypt*., U.S. Expl. Exp.).
- House, J.D., New York State Mus. Bull. 328: 9. 1942 (bibl. bot. N.Y. State).
- Howe, J.W., J. New York Bot. Gard. 9(103): 124. 1908 (diat. at NY).
- Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 9-10. 1961.
- Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 349. 1969 (location algae).
- Marcou, J.B., Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus. 30: 203, 273. 1885 (bibl.).
- Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. univ. 37. 1984.
- Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 336 \[index\]. 1942.
- Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 284. 1975.
- Smith, Earle, Bartonia 28: *pl. 2.* 1957 (handwriting).
- Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 21: 172. 1972 (on *Lower Crypt*., U.S. Expl. Exp.).
- VanLandingham, S.C., Cat. Diat. 4: 2288. 1971, 6: 3509. 1978, 7: 4148. 1978.
#### Composite works
- (1) With Harvey, *Algae*, *in* U.S. Exploring Exped. 1838-1842 under command of Charles Wilkes, vol. 17 (Botany): 153-192, *pl. 1-9*, see TL-2/1: 94 (no. 239).
### Publications
##### n.19.929. Microscopical examination of soundings
**Title**
*Microscopical examination of soundings*, made by the U.S. Coast Survey off the atlantic coast of the U.S.... Smithsonian contributions to knowledge... 1851. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Micr. exam. soundings*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Jan 1851 (in journal, see p. 15), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-15, *1* unnumb. *pl*. (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: L. − Issued as Smithson. Contr. Knowl. 2(3). 1851.
##### n.19.930. Microscopical observations
**Title**
*Microscopical observations* made in *South Carolina*, Georgia and Florida... Smithsonian contributions to knowledge... \[1851\]. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Micr. obs. S. Carolina*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1851 (text accepted 1 Dec 1850), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-48, *pl. 1-3* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: L. − Issued as Smithson. Contr. Knowl. 3(8). 1851.