> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 777](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069019) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5370-1) LSID 5370-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18912680) QID Q18912680 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Leavenworth, Melines Conklin (1796-1862), United States explorer; studied medicine at Yale (grad. 1817); practiced at Cahawba (Alabama) and Augusta (Georgia); subsequently army surgeon and explorer until 1842; physician at Waterbury (Conn.) 1842-1861; ultimately again army surgeon; sent plants to Torrey. **Abbreviated name**: *Leavenw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Leavenw.*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection BKL|BKL]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection Y|Y]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 355; CSP 3: 904; Hortus 3: 1198 ("Leavenw."); IH 2: 420; Lenley p. 462; ME 2: 294, 298, 311, 337, 3: 407; Pennell p. 612; PE (alph.); Tucker 1: 416. - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 10: 354. 1863; Flora 46: 334. 1863. - Geiser, S. W., Natural. Frontier 181, 277. 1948. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 35: 451. 1863. - Kelly, H. A. & W. L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 685-686. 1920. - Leavenworth, M. C., Amer. J. Sci. 49: 129-131. 1845 (letter to editor). - McVaugh, R., Field & Laboratory 15(2): 57-70. 1947. - Rockwell, Med. Comm., Proc. Conn. med. Soc. ser. 2. 2(3): 269-272. 1866. - Rodgers, A. D., John Torrey 344 \[index\]. 1942. #### Composite works Eli Ives, William Tully and Melines C. Leavenworth, *Catalogue of the phaenogamous plants, and of the ferns*,... *within five miles of Yale College*, Connecticut, New Haven 1831, p. 1-38, reprinted from Ebenezer Baldwin, Annals of Yale College 1831: 264-302. (See McVaugh 1947 and C. B. Graves et al., *Catal. fl. pl. ferns Connecticut* 1910, p. 11; ME 3: 4071. #### Eponymy *Laevenworthia* J. Torrey (1837).