> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 284](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212326) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/27697-1) LSID 27697-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21387738) QID Q21387738 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thomson, John Walter (1913-x), American lichenologist; MA Columbia Univ. 1935; MA Univ. Wisconsin 1937; Dr. phil. ib. 1939; assistant in botany, Univ. Wisconsin 1935-1939; director Staff School Nature League Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1939-1941, instructor Biol., State Teachers College Superior, Wisc. 1942-1944; asst. professor of botany, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison 1947-1962, professor of botany 1962-1984; emeritus professor 1984; chairman Dept. Bot. Zool. Univ. Wisconsin 1948-1967. **Abbreviated name**: *J.W. Thomson* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.W.Thomson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WIS|WIS]]; other material at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CANL|CANL]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]]. – *Lichenes wisconsinenses exsiccati*, 96 nos. 1946-1960 (one fungus). Sets at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAN|CAN]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection DUKE|DUKE]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LISU|LISU]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection O|O]], [[Collection POZ|POZ]], [[Collection TAES|TAES]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]]. – *Lichenes arctici* 90 nos. 1960-1966, sets at [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAN|CAN]], [[Collection CINC|CINC]], [[Collection DUKE|DUKE]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LBL|LBL]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LISU|LISU]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection MVM|MVM]], [[Collection O|O]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection POZ|POZ]], [[Collection REN|REN]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TENN|TENN]], [[Collection TRTC|TRTC]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart: 379 (b. 9 Jul 1913); GR p. 382-383 (extensive details), *pl. 34*, cat. p. 72; IH 1 (ed. 2: no, (ed. 3): 142, (ed. 6): 365; Roon p. 114; SBC p. 133. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 9-15: 1955-1982; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 352. 1969; Int. lichenol. Newsletter 17(1): 9. 1984 (lichen herb. donated to WIS); Rev. bryol. lichénol. 18: 200. 1949, 19: 258. 1950, 20: 318. 1951, 24: 182, 408. 1955, 25: 212. 1956, 30: 183, 303. 1961, 34: 408. 1966, 36: 392. 1969, 36: 808, 809. 1970, 36: 362. 1970, 37: 420. 1971, 38: 148. 1972. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 95. 1969. - Greene, H.C. & J.T. Curtis, Bibl. Wisconsin Veg. 21, 40, 41, 52, 53. 1955. - Hertel, H., Mitt. bot. Staatssamml. München 18: 130, 329. 1982 (exsicc). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 730. 1985. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard 9(1): 167. 1969 (exs.). - Thomson, J.W., Scientific publications \[1940-1956\], mimeogr., 1 p. (bibl.); curr. vit. and bibl. 13 p., in TL-2/files. #### Note The lichenological publications of J.W. Thomson fall outside our period. Important items: *The lichen genus Physcia in North America*, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 7, 1963 (see O. Almborn, Bot. Not. 117: 103-104. 1964), and *The lichen genus Cladonia in North America*, Toronto 1967 (publ. 20 Jan 1968), see T. Ahti, The Bryologist 71: 292-294. 1968, O. Almborn, Bot. Not. 121: 135-136. 1968, H. Hertel, Bot. Jahrb. 89: 41-56. 1970, F.A.S. Taxon 17: 425-427. 1968; *Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope*, Toronto 1979 (see R.S. Egan, Bryologist 83: 612-613. 1980), and *American arctic lichens*, I. The macrolichens, New York 1984.