> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 146](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189617) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7469-1) LSID 7469-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522774) QID Q21522774 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Peirce, George James (1868-1954), Manila-born (of American parents) American botanist; Dr. phil. Leipzig 1894 (with Pfeffer); instructor in botany, Bloomington, Ind. 1895; plant physiologist at Stanford from 1897-1934; all-round botanist; studied the effect of air pollution on plants. **Abbreviated name**: *Peirce* \[standard form in IPNI: *Peirce*\] #### Herbarium and types Some material at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 63; Bossert p. 305 (b. 13 Mar 1868, d. 15 Oct 1954); CSP 17: 763; GR p. 238; Kelly p. 172, 256; Kew 4: 263; LS 20377-20382; Rehder 2: 447; Tucker 1: 545. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 63: 222. 1895 (app. Indiana), 70: 399. 1897 (app. Stanford); Bot. Jahrb. 21 (Beibl. 53): 61. 1896; Hedwigia 74: (142). 1934 (retirement from Stanford); Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 56: 823. 1915 (publ. of his Leipzig period with Pfeffer); Madroño 10: frontisp. portr. 1950; Nat. cycl. Amer. biogr. 41: 479. 1956; Nat. Nov. 17: 358. 1895 (app. Bloomington), 19: 330. 1897 (app. Stanford); Österr. bot. Z. 60: 287. 1910 (app. Stanford); Rev. bryol. 34: 127. 1907. - Blinks, L.R., Plant Physiology 30(3): 295-296. 1955 (obit., d. 15 Oct 1954); Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 68a: 320-321. 1955. - Ewan, J. et al., Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 73, 76. 1953; Short hist. bot. U.S. 48, 95. 1969. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 1: 200. 1894. - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 40. 1945. - Pierce, G.J., A textbook of plant-physiology, New York 1903; The physiology of plants. New York 1926, 363 p. (GH cat.). - Schuster, R.M., Hepat. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 87. 1966. - Smith, G.M., Science 121: 349-350. 1955 (obit., 13 Mar 1868, d. 15 Oct 1954). - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 4(1): 84. 1981 (arch. mat. HU). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 361. 1936, 3: 23. 1937, 4: 86, 168. 1938. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 200. *pl. 149* 1905 (portr.).