> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 351](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189822) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7878-1) LSID 7878-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2654973) QID Q2654973 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Post, George Edward (1838-1909), American physician, missionary and botanist; educated at New York Free Academy (City College), Univ. of New York medical dept., and at Union Theological Seminary; Dr. med. New York 1860; professor of surgery in the Syrian protestant College, Beirut and surgeon to the Johanniter Hospital, Beirut 1868-1909. **Abbreviated name**: *Post* \[standard form in IPNI: *Post*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BEI|BEI]]; further material at [[Collection AAR|AAR]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BEI|BEI]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection Z|Z]]. – Letters and portrait at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 102; BFM no. 1551; BJI 1: 46; BM 4: 1602, 8: 1024; Clokie p. 227; DAB (W.L. Wright, Jr.); IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 347; Morren ed. 10, p. 148; Rehder 5: 684; Tucker 1: 436, 565; Urban-Berl. p. 310; Zander ed. 10, p. 703, ed. 11, p. 802. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1910: 16 (d. 29 Sep 1909); Nat. Nov. 31(21), 1909 (d.); New York Evening Post 8 Oct 1909 (fide Kelly); New York Observer 7 Oct 1909 (fide Kelly). - Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 19: 253. 1884. - Blatter, E., Rec. Bot. Surv. India 8(5): 485. 1933. - Burdet, H., Candollea 32: 359-369. 1977. - D.W., *in* Kelly, H.A., Cycl. Amer. med. biogr. 2: 280-281. 1920 (b. 17 Dec 1838, d. 29 Sep 1909). - Davis, P.H. & J.R. Edmondson, Notes R.B.G. Edinburgh 37(2): 278. 1979 (bibl. Fl. Turkey). - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 120. 1970. - Jackson, B.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 30, 53. 1901 (pl. K). - Kelly, H.A., Some Amer. med. bot. 192-203. 1914 (repr. 1929) (portr.). - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 16: 164. 1910 (death). - Murray, G., Hist. BM(NH) 1: 174. 1904. #### Handwriting Candollea 32: 395-396. 1977. #### Eponymy *Postia* E.P. Boissier et E. Blanche (1875). ### Publications ##### n.8190. Plantae postianae **Title** *Plantae postianae* fasciculus 1(-10)... Lausanne (Imprimerie Georges Bridel & Cie.) 1890-1900, 10 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. post.* **Notes** *Co-author* fasc. 8-9: Eugène John Benjamin Autran (1855-1912). *1*: 1890 (US rd. 24 Jan 1891), p. \[1\]-14. *2*: Feb 1891 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-23. *3*. Feb 1892 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-19, \[1-2\]. *4*: Mai 1892 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-12. *5*: Jan 1893 (id.), p. \[1\]-17, repr. from Bull. Herb. Boissier 1(1): 15-32. 1893. *6*: Aug 1893 (in journal), p. \[1\]-19, repr. from id. 1(8): \[393\]-411. 1893. *7*: Apr 1895 (id.), p. \[1\]-18, repr. from id. 3(4): 150-167. 1895. *8*: Sep 1897 (id.), p. \[1\]-7, repr. from id. 5(9): 755-761. 1897. *9*: Mar 1899 (id.), p. \[1\]-16, repr. from id. 7(3): 146-161. 1899. *10*: 15 Aug 1900 (id.), p. \[1\]-14, repr. from Mém. Herb. Boissier 18: 89-102. 1900. *Copies*: B, BR, FI, G, NY, U, US. ##### n.8191. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai **Title** *Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai*, from the Taurus to Ras Muhammad, and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian Desert... Beirut, Syria (Syrian Portestant College) \[1896\]. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Syria*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1896 (printing commenced 1883 according to p. \[1\], but actual publication took place in 1896, see J. Bot. 35: 59-60. 1891; Nat. Nov. Oct(2) 1896, ÖbZ 1 Oct 1896), map, p. \[i\], \[1\]-919. *Copies*: BR, G, MICH, MO, NY, US, USDA. – A fully arabic *Flora of Syria and Egypt*, vol. 1, Ranunc.-Cornac., was issued at Beirut, Mai 1884. *Copy* at G. *Ed. 2*: 1932-1933, 2 vols., *copies*: BR, FI, MO, NY. – Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai/A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns, native and naturalized from the Taurus to Ras Muhammad and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian Desert... second edition, extensively revised and enlarged by John Edward Dinsmore \[1862-1951\]... American Press, Beirut. – American University of Beirut, Publ. Fac. Arts Sci., Nat. Sci., Nat. Sci. Ser. I. – Oct.*1*: 1932 (p. vi: 1 Mar 1932; p. 639 has dates of printing; Nat. Nov. Jan 1933), p. \[i\*, iii\*\], \[i\]-xxxxiii, \[xxxxiv\], \[1\]-639. – 2: 1933 (p. 928 has dates of printing; Nat. Nov. Jul 1934), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-928, 5 maps. *Note*: J.E. Dinsmore had published in 1911 *Die Pflanzen Palästinas* auf Grund eigener Sammlung und der Flora Posts und Boissiers Verzeichniss, with Arabian names by G. Dalman, Leipzig 1911, 122 p.