> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 334](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260322) of TL-2 Suppl. VI > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7361264) QID Q7361264 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Emerson, Rollins Adams (1873-1947), American plant geneticist, born 5 Mai 1873 at Pillar Point, N.Y., moved to Kearney County (Nebraska) where he visited schools, at College of Agriculture University of Nebraska in Lincoln, B.S. 1897, to Washington with the USDA for two years, returned to Lincoln as asst. professor 1899, D.Sci. at Harvard 1913, from 1914 until his retirement in 1942 head of the Department of Plant Breeding of Cornell University, died 8 Dec 1947, Ithaca, N.Y. **Abbreviated name**: *R.A. Emers.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 507; Bossert p. 116; Kew 2: 188-189, LS 8011. #### Biofile - Anon., RUS 1930: 211; Amer. men sci. ed. 6: 418. 1938. - Beadle, G.W., Genetics 35: 1-3. 1950 (biogr., portr.). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 64, 65. 1969. - Rodgers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 494 (index). 1949. ### Publications ##### n.32.887. inheritance **Title** The *inheritance* of the *ligule* and auricles of *corn leaves*... Reprinted from the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Nebraska... 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1912, cover-t.p., p. \[81\]-88. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Nebraska Agric. Exper. Sta. 25: 81-88. 1912. ##### n.32.888. inheritance **Title** The *inheritance* of certain forms of *chlorophyll reduction* in corn leaves... Reprinted from the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station... 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1912, cover-t.p., p. \[89\]-105. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. Nebraska Agric. Exper. Sta. 25: 89-105. 1912. ##### n.32.889. quantitative characters **Title** The inheritance of *quantitative characters* in *Maize*... Lincoln, Nebraska U.S.A. (Agricultural Experiment Station) 1913. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Quant. char. Maize*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Edward Murray East (1879-1938). *Publ*.: 1 Apr 1913 (date on p. \[1\], Nat. Nov. Apr (2) 1914), p. \[1\]-120 (some tables h.t. of the 39 tables in text). *Copy*: L. – Issued as Nebraska Agric. Exper. Sta. Res. Bull. no. 2. 1913. ##### n.32.890. Genetical studies **Title** *Genetical studies* of variegated *pericarp* in Maize... Reprinted from Genetics... 1917. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Jan 1917 (date on p. \[1\]), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-35. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Genetics 2: 1-35. 1917. ##### n.32.891. nature **Title** The *nature* of *bud variations* as indicated by their mode of inheritance... \[Ithaca (Department of Plant Breading, Cornell University)\] 1922. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Feb 1922 (date on cover-identif.), cover (identif.), (recto of p. 64), p. 64-79. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. Natural. 56: 64-79. 1922.