> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 275](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212317) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10597-1) LSID 10597-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6783532) QID Q6783532 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thomas, Mason Blanchard (1866-1912), American botanist; B.S. Cornell Univ. 1890; professor of biology at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, succeeding John M. Coulter, 1891-1895; professor of botany ib. 1895-1912; dean of the Faculty 1904-1912. **Abbreviated name**: *M.B. Thomas* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.B.Thomas*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WAB|WAB]]. – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 375 (b. 16 Dec 1866, d. 6 Mar 1912); LS 26595-26596, 39922; Nordstedt suppl. p. 15; NW p. 59; Rehder 5: 844; Tucker 3: 307. #### Biofile - Anon., Allg. bot. Z. 18: 152. 1912 (d.); Amer. men sci. eds. 1-2, 1906-1910; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 346-347. 1969; Nat. Nov. 34: 234. 1912 (d.); Österr. bot. Z. 62: 199. 1912 (d.); Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 1911: 4-5. 1912 (obit.); Science ser. 2: 35: 414. 1912 (d.); Who was who Amer. 1: 1230. 1968. - Deam, C.C., Fl. Indiana 1119. 1940 (coll.). - Hesler, L.R., Biogr. sketches North Amer. mycol. 1975, mss. (2 p., personal recollections). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 729. 1985. - Millis, W.A. et al., Wabash Coll. Rec. 10(3): 45-77. 1912 (tributes, obit., bibl.). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 24, 61. 1981.