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### Author
MacMillan, Conway (1867-1929), American botanist; M. A. Univ. Nebraska 1885, at Univ. of Nebraska 1885-1887; instructor of botany Univ. Minnesota 1887-1891; professor id. 1891-1893; state botanist of the Minnesota Geological Survey and Natural History Survey from 1893-1901; director of the Minnesota Seaside Station at Port Renfrew from 1901-1906; in the advertising business at Philadelphia 1906-1929.
**Abbreviated name**: *MacMill.* \[standard form in IPNI: *MacMill.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection MIN|MIN]]; further material at [[Collection K|K]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 430; BL 1: 192, 307; BM 3: 1213, 7: 777; CSP 16: 981-982; De Toni 4: xxxviii; GR p. 230; Hortus 3: 1199 ("MacMill."); IH 2:486; Kelly p. 136; Kew 3: 547; Lenley p. 277; LS 16210-16216; NAF 28B(2): 344; NW p. 52; Pennell p. 613; Rehder 5: 534; Stevenson p. 1250; Tucker 1: 450; Zander ed. 10, p. 687, ed. 11, p. 784.
- Anon., Science ser. 2. 69: 643. 1929.
- Dörfler, J., Botaniker-Adressbuch 204. 1896.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U. S. 14. 1969.
- Humphrey, H. B., Makers N. Amer. bot. 159-160. 1961 (b. 26 Aug 1867, d. 5 Jun 1929).
- Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. hist. 77, 301. 1937.
- Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 66. 1955.
- Rodgers, A. D., Bernard Eduard Fernow 84, 367. 1951.
- Voss, E. G., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 37. 1978.
#### Eponymy
*Macmillanina* O. Kuntze (1898).
### Publications
##### n.5191. The Metaspermae of the Minnesota valley
**Title**
*The Metaspermae of the Minnesota valley*. List of the higher seed-producing plants indigenous to the drainage-basin of the Minnesota-River... Minneapolis, December 29, 1892. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Metasp. Minnesota valley*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 29 Dec 1892, p. \[i\]-xiii, 2 maps, \[1\]-826. *Copies*: G, L, MO, NY, US(2), USDA;IDG 7581. – Geological and natural history survey of Minnesota, Reports of the Survey botanical series i. – For a critical analysis of MacMillan's nomenclatural reforms see Britten (1893). The "Introduction", p. \[1\]-30, was preprinted 4 Aug 1892, Minneapolis (Harrison and Smith) 1892 (see TBC 19: 320. 10 Oct 1892). *Copies*: MO, NY.
*Ref*.: Britten, J., J. Bot. 31: 339-344. Nov 1893.
- Anon., Bot. Gaz. 18: 146-147. Apr 1893.
- Engler, A., Bot. Jahrb. 18 (Lit.): 45. 1894.
##### n.5192. Minnesota plant life
**Title**
*Minnesota plant life*... Report of the Survey Botanical Series iii Saint Paul, Minnesota. October 30, 1899. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Minnesota pl. life*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 30 Oct 1899 (t.p.; Underwood rd. his copy at NY 11 Nov 1899; Nat. Nov. Feb(1) 1900; Bot. Gaz. 30 Apr 1900), p. \[i\]-xxv, \[1\]-568, *pl. 1-4. Copies*: G, L, NY(2), US, USDA.
*Number of copies printed*: 10.000.
*Ref*.: Anon., Bot. Gaz. 29: 283-284. 1900.
- Britten, J., J. Bot. 38: 148. 1900.
- Engler, A., Bot. Jahrb. 27(Lit.): 38. 1900.
- Schimper, Bot. Zeit. 58(2): 97-99. 1 Apr 1900.