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### Author
Merriam, Clinton Hart (1855-1942), American botanist, zoologist and ethnologist; M. D Columbia 1879; practicing physician in Locust Grove 1879-1885; ornithologist in the office of the "Commissioner of agriculture" (now USDA) and leader of the Bureau of Biological Survey 1885-1910; working with the support of the Harnman Trust (Smithsonian Institution) from 1910; outstanding mammalogist and zoogeographer
**Abbreviated name**: *Merriam* \[standard form in IPNI: *Merriam*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection US|US]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 478 (b. 5 Dec 1855, d. 1942); BL 1: 132, 168, 309; BM 3: 1291; Hortus 3: 1199 (Merriam); IH 2: 529; Lenley p. 285; Zander ed. 10, p. 691, ed. 11, p. 781.
- Anon., Entom. News 53: 150. 1942 (d.); Science 95: 318. 1942.
- Cantelow, E. D. & H. C., Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 95. 1957 (d. 19 Mar 1942).
- Daubenmire, R. F., Quart. Rev. Biol. 13: 327-332. 1938. (Merriam's life zones of North America).
- Ewan, J., Rocky Mt. natural. 266. 1950.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U. S. 117. 1969.
- Grinnell, H. W., J. Mammalogy 24(4): 436-437. 1943 (bibl.).
- Howell, J. T., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 94. 1953.
- Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 308. (Alaskan coll. US).
- Jaeger, E. C., Source book biol. names terms ed. 3. 317. 1966.
- Osgood, W. H., J. Mammalogy 24: 421-436. 1943, Natl. Acad. Sci., Biogr. Mem. 24: 1-57. 1947 (main biogr., bibl., portr., b. 5 Dec 1855, d. 19 Mar 1942).
### Publications
##### n.5852. Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco
**Title**
*Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco* mountain region and desert of the Little Colorado in Arizona... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1890. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Aug 1890 (Bot. Centralbl. 10 Dec 1890), p. \[i\]-vii, frontisp., 1-136, *pl. 1-13*, map 1-5 with text. Published and to be cited as North American fauna 3, 1890.
*Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 17: 298. 9 Nov 1890.