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### Author
Preble, Edward Alexander (1871-1957), American conservationist, botanist, orand \[fix\]1 on the staff of the U.S. Biological Survey from 1892, on that of the American Nature Association from 1895.
**Abbreviated name**: *Preble* \[standard form in IPNI: *Preble*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection US|US]], – manuscripts and field notes in SIA.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 106; BL 1: 138, 313; Ewan ed. 2: 178; PH 450.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Nature Mag. 41: 35. 1948 (portr.), 50: 455. 1957 (d. 4 Oct 1957).
- Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1920: 324.
- McAtee, W.L. Auk 79: 730-742. 1962; – with F. Harper, Univ. Kansas Mus. nat. Hist. misc. Publ. 40: 1-16. 1965 (bibl., portr.).
- R.W.W., Nature Mag. 50: 537. 1957 (obit., portr.).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 306. 1936.
- Walter, E. Preble and P.F. Hannah, Nature Mag. 20(2): 71-75. 1932 (biogr., portr., "a modern Thoreau").
- Zahniser, H., 34: 307, 350. 1941.
#### Composite works
Associate editor *Nature Magazine* 1935-1957.
### Publications
##### n.8280. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
**Title**
U.S. Department of Agriculture... North American Fauna no. 27... *A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1908. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 26 Oct 1908 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-574, *pl. 1-25. Copy*: MO. Trees and shrubs on p. 515-534, *pl. 24-25.* – Letters at G.