> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 160](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120291) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/15856-1) LSID 15856-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2612098) QID Q2612098 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Beck, Louis Caleb (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Beck, Lewis Caleb (1798-1853), American physician and naturalist at Albany, New York. **Abbreviated name**: *L. C. Beck* \[standard form in IPNI: *L.C.Beck*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NYS|NYS]] \[?\], duplicates [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection W|W]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 63. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 149; BM 1: 119, 6: 70; CSP 1: 228-229, 6: 58, 12: 60; IF p. 680; Jackson p. 361; Kew 1: 197; ME 1: 164, 3: 391, 411, 536; PR 541. - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 16: 149-150. 1853 (bibl.) - March, *in* Grosse, Amer. med. Biogr. 1861: 679-696 (fide ME). - Merrill, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 690. - House, *in* Kelly and Burrage, Amer. med. Biogr. 1920: 87. - Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 290. 1921. - Rodgers, John Torrey 336 \[index\]. 1942. - Ewan, Short history botany U.S. 90, 97. 1969. - Martin, *in* Lenley et al., Index corr. Torrey 447. 1973. #### Composite works Eaton, *Manual*, ed. 4, 1824, appendix by L. C. Beck. #### Eponymy *Neobeckia* E. L. Greene (1896). ### Publications ##### n.388. Botany of the northern and middle states **Title** *Botany of the northern and middle states*; or, a description of the plants found in the United States, north of Virginia, arranged according to the natural system. With a synopsis of the genera according to the Linnaean system – a sketch of the rudiments of botany, and a glossary of terms. Albany (Webster and Skinners) 1833. Duod. (in sixes) **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. north, middle states*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Mai-Jun 1833 (data BH), p. \[i\]-lv, \[1\]-471. *Copy*: BR. *Ed. 2*: 'revised and enlarged, ' New York (Harper & Brothers) 1848. Duod., publ. 1848 (p. iv: Feb 1848), p. \[i\]-lxiii, \[1\]-480 "Botany of the United States North of Virginia; comprising descriptions of the flowering and fern-like plants hitherto found in those states, arranged according to the natural system; with a synopsis... terms." *Copies*: HH, MICH. *Reissue*: 1856, New York (Harper and Brothers), cancellans t.p., rest 1848 sheets, p. \[i\]-xiii, \[1\]-480. Duod. *Copies*: MICH, NY. *Reissue*: 1868, New York (Harper and Brothers), cancellans t.p., rest 1868 sheets, p. \[i\]-lxiii, \[1\]-480. Duod. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 119; IF 680; Jackson 361; Kew 1: 197; ME 3: 411; PR 541; IDC 5113.