> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 515](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266192) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1925-1) LSID 1925-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2601895) QID Q2601895 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Curtis, Moses Ashley|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Curtis, Moses Ashley (1808-1872), American botanist, teacher and priest, born at Stockbridge, Mass., educated at Williams College until 1827, ordaine in the Episcopal Church in 1834, as missionary to Lincolnton, North Carolina as well as a collector as a mycologist. **Abbreviated name**: *M.A. Curtis* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.A.Curtis*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]] ([[Collection FH|FH]], 16.000), further material in [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection BRU|BRU]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection DWC|DWC]] (517, see Ezra Michener), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection MAINE|MAINE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection P|P]]-DU, [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (included with correspondence with Torrey), [[Collection PH|PH]] (large set), [[Collection US|US]] (incl. 796 species deposited by Curtis directly), [[Collection Y|Y]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 406 (b. 11 Mai 1809, Stockbridge, Mass., d. Hillsborough, N.C., 10 Apr 1872); BL 1: 204; BM 1: 407; CSP 2: 110, 7: 473; DAB 540; GR p. 186; GR cat. p. 62; Hortus 3: 1191; IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 148; Jackson p. 17; Kew 1: 664; Lenley p. 451 (Torrey corr.); LS 6460-6469, 32.426; ME 1: 176, 3: 559; MW p. 88; NAF 7(2): 1057; PR p. 73; SBC p. 118; Stevenson p. 1239; TL-2/1: 573-574; Tucker 1: 9, 182. #### Biofile - Anon., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 471-472. 1837; J. Bot. 10: 224. Jul 1872 (d. 10 Apr 1872); Grevillea 1(1): 15 Jul 1872 (d.). - Berkeley, E. and D. Smith, A Yankee botanist in the Carolines, the reverend Moses Ashley Curtis, D.D., J. Cramer Berlin 1986, 242 p. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 395. 1980. - Britton, N.L., J. New York Bot. Gard. 10(116): 188. 1909. - Core, Earl L., Bot. expl. S. Appalach., Virginia Polyt. Inst. St. Univ. Monogr. 2: 36-38. 1971 (with photogr.). - Curtis, M.A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 8: 3. Nov 1849 (annoucement by C. of *Fungi americani exsiccati*, March 1848). - Day, M.A., Rhodora 3: 242. 1901. - Diehl, W.W., The fungi of Wilkes Expedition, Mycologia 13: 38-41. 1921. - Doidge, E.M., Bothalia 5: 995. 1950. - Dudley, Wm.R., J. Mycol 2: 54-59. 1886 (bibl.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 92. 1969. - Ewan, J. and N.D. Ewan, John Banister and his natural history of Virginia 392. 1970. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 2: 306. 1881. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 28, 128. 1967. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 5: 391-393. 1873; Sci. papers 2: 351-353. 1889. - Hawksworth, D.L., Mycologist's handbook 182. 1974. - Hooker, W.J., London J. Bot. 1: 13-14. 1842 (on C's acquaintance with the vegetation of S. Alleghany Mts.). - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 64-66. 1961. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 90. 1972. - Lamson-Scribner, F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 20: 321-324. 1893. - Lloyd, C.G., Mycol. notes 38: 510. 1912. - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 29. 1945. - Petersen, R.H., Mycotaxon 9: 459-463. 1979 (mycol. hist.); Huntia 3(3): 179-180. 1979 (publ. *The mycol. association* of M.J. Berkeley and M.A. Curtis, Vaduz (J.Cramer) 1980, 120 p. (rev. see Taxon 29: 748. 1980); Castanea 53(2): 110-121. Jun 1988 (on C's 1839 Exp. N. Carolina Mts.). - Pfister, D.H. et al., Newsletter Friends Farlow 1(1): 1. 1982 (portr.). - Powell, W.S., Moses Ashley Curtis 1808-1872, Chapel Hill 1958, 20 p. (portr.). - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 105, 176, 184, 224, 230, 262-263. 1940; Amer. Bot. 1873-1892: 16, 126. 1944; John Torrey 339 (index). 1962. - Rogers, D.P., A brief history of mycology in North America 10-11. 1977, ed. 2. 1981 (p. 10, 11, 12, 20, 33, 57, 71, 72). - Shear, C.L., and N.E. Stevens, Mycologia 11(4): 181-201. 30 Aug 1919 (mycol. work). - Smith, Earl, Bartonia 28: 10, 21, *pl. 3*. 1957 (handwriting, C. raided the Schweinitz collections when visited the Academy (PH)). - Steere, W.C., Bot. Rev. 43(3): 290. 1977. - Stevens, N.E., Sci. Monthly 1919: 157-166. - Wood, Th.F., J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 2: 9-31. 1885 (portr.), also as separate, p. \[i, t.p.\], 9-31. 1855, portr., wrappers, Raleigh. - Youmans, W.J., Pop. Sci. Monthly 34: 405-410, portr. Jan 1889. #### Composite works - (1) *Contributions to mycology of North America*, with Miles Joseph Berkeley, Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2. 8: 401-403. Nov 1849, 9: 171-175. Mar 1850, 10: 185-188. Sep 1850, 11: 93-95. 1851. - (2) With Miles Joseph Berkeley, Proc. Amer. Acad. 4: 111-127. 1859 (*Characters of new fungi*, collected in North Pacific Exploring Expedition of Charles Wright). - (3) U.S. Expl. Exped. 17: 1862, Botany I.... *Fungi* by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley p. 193-202, publ. 1862. See Berkeley in TL-2/1: 192. - (4) With Miles Joseph Berkeley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 10: 281-341. 1868 (*Fungi cubenses* (Hymenomycetes)). - (5) *Botany*. The woody plants of the State... *in* P.H. Hale, The *woods* and *timbers* of *North Carolina*, p. 9-198, map (Hale's pagination 1-272, map). 1883. – See Rehder 1: 317. #### Eponymy *Acurtis* E.M. Fries 1849, see ING 1: 26. 1979. ### Publications ##### n.28.486. Enumeration **Title** *Enumeration* of *plants* growing spontaneously around *Wilmington*, North Carolina, with remarks on some new and obscure species... \[J. Nat. Hist. 1834-1837\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1834-1837 (communiated 3 Sep 1834), p. 83-141. *Copy*: NY (tearsheet). – Published in Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1(2): 82-141. 1834 \[-1837\]. ##### n.28.487. Geological **Title** *Geological* and *natural history* survey of *North Carolina*. Part III: *Botany*: Containing a catalogue of the indigenous and naturalized plants of the State... Raleigh 1867. **Abbreviated title**: *Geol. nat. hist. N. C. Bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867, p. \[1\]-158. *Copy*: NY. – See also Barnhart, NAF 7(2): 1057. 1940. *Ref*.: Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2. 45(134): 271. Mar 1868.