> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 392](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258870) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19637-1) LSID 19637-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941374) QID Q941374 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Griggs, Robert Fiske (1881-1962), American botanist and plant ecologist, born 22 Aug 1881 in Brooklyn (Windham Co.), Conn., B.S. 1903 Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Prof. of Biology, Fargo College, Fargo, North Dakota 1903-1906, M.S. 1906 Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Prof. of Biology, Ohio State Univ. 1906-1921, Ph.D. 1911 Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. (earned while on leave from Ohio State Univ.), led six expeds. to Alaska (Katmai Distr.) 1915-1919, Prof. of Botany (first), George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C. 1921-1947, Chair, Division of Biology and Agric., Natl. Research Council (N.S.F) 1940-1947, President, Ecological Soc. Amer. 1944, Prof. of Biology, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1947-1952, died 8 Jun 1962 in Kensington, Maryland. **Abbreviated name**: *R.F. Griggs* \[standard form in IPNI: *Griggs*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection OS|OS]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Field notes at [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection UC|UC]] and [[Collection US|US]]; letters in [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection HU|HU]] and SIA (Remington Kellogg and E.P. Killip papers). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 9: 438; APN p. 242; Barnhart 2: 87; BL 1: 207, 208, 298; BM 6: 410; Bossert p. 152 (d. "8 Jun, Carnegie, Penn."); Ewan Pap. p. 84; Hirsch p. 105; Hortus 3: 1194; IH 2: 127, 137, 240; Langman p. 336; Lenley p. 189; LS 33.805-33.809; Pennell p. 608; Portr. 1: 64 (index), 3: 507; Sarjeant p. 1148, Suppl. 1: 459; Tucker 1: 302, 775, 2: xviii. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 475. 1931; Washington Post, Times Herald \[newspaper\]: B7. 10 Jun 1962, Ibid.: B4. 11 Jun 1962. - Burgess, R.L., 1996. Huntia 10(1): 47-48. (d. "8 Jun") - Cottam, C. & W.W. Diehl, 1964. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 45(1): 33-35. (portr) (d. "8 Jun") - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 252; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 332. - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 95. - Griggs, R.F., 1961. We two together, \[Pacific Grove, Calif.\], Boxwood Press: vii, 320 p. (autobiogr.) \[book also concerns his wife, Laura A. Tressel Griggs (1884-1956)\] (n.v.) - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond (eds.), 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 86. - Hultén, E., 1940. Bot. Not. 1940: 326-327. (Alaska) - Karg, A.L. & M.T. Stieber, 1988. Huntia 8(1): 24. - Meyer, B.S., 1983. Bull. Ohio Biol. Surv., n.s., 6(2): 28, 39-43. (d. "9 Jun") - Small, J.A., 1963 \[1964\]. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 90: 413-416. (portr.) (d. "8 Jun") - Stieber, M.T., 1982. Huntia 4(3): 156, 180, 188, 198. #### Eponymy *Griggsia* F. Stevens & Dalbey (1919); also Mount Griggs, Alaska. ### Publications ##### n.37.214. species **Title** On some *species* of *Heliconia*... \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club...\] 1903. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 5 Dec 1903 (in journal), t.p., p. \[641\]-664, *pl. 29-30* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: K, NY, US (without t.p.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30(12): 641-664, *pl. 29-30.* 1903. ##### n.37.215. willows **Title** The *willows* of *Ohio*: a monograph. 1905... \[Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Ohio State Academy of Sciences...\] 1905. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1905 (on p. \[255\] signed 25 Nov 1905), p. \[255\]-314. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Ohio State Acad. Sci. 4(6), Special Papers, Nr. 11: 255-314. 1905. ##### n.37.216. undescribed Heliconia **Title** An *undescribed Heliconia* in the New York Botanical Garden... \[Reprinted from Torreya...\] 1908. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Jan 1908, p. \[230\]-233. *Copies*: BKL, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Torreya 7: 230-233. 1908. ##### n.37.217. characters **Title** On the *characters* and *relationships* of the *Platanaceae*... \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club...\] 1909. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 14 Aug 1909 (in journal), t.p., p. 389-395, *pl. 25* (uncol. draw.). *Copies*: NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36(7): 389-395, *pl. 25.* 1909. – Also issued as Contr. Bot. Lab. Ohio State Univ. 47. ##### n.37.218. Sugar Grove flora **Title** Observations on the geographical composition of the *Sugar Grove flora*... \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club...\] 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 10 Sep 1913 (in journal), t.p., p. 487-499. *Copies*: NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40(9): 487-499. 1913. – Also issued as Contr. Bot. Lab. Ohio State Univ. 75. ##### n.37.219. behavior **Title** Observations on the *behavior* of some *species* at the *edges of their ranges*... \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club...\] 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 27 Feb 1914 (in journal), t.p., p. 25-49. *Copies*: NY (2), US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 41(1): 25-49. 1914. – Also issued as Contr. Bot. Lab. Ohio State Univ. 79. ##### n.37.220. botanical survey **Title** A *botanical survey* of the *Sugar Grove region*... \[Reprinted from the Ohio State University Bulletin...\] 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1914, p. \[3\], \[247\]-340. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), MO, NY. *Microfilm*: Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2002, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Ohio State Univ. Bull. 18(25): 247-340. 1914. – Also issued as Ohio Biol. Surv. Bull. 1(3), and Contr. Bot. Lab. Ohio State Univ. 84. *Ref*.: Diels, L., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 55(Lit.): 78. 30 Sep 1919 (rev.). ##### n.37.221. recovery **Title** I. The *recovery* of *vegetation* at *Kodiak*... \[Reprinted from the Ohio Journal of Science...\] 1918. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1918, t.p., p. \[1\]-57, a number of unnumb. phot. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), NY, US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ohio J. Sci. 19(1): 1-57. 1918. – Also issued as "The National Geographic Society Katmai expeditions" \[t.p.\]; and "Scientific results of the Katmai expeditions of the National Geographic Society" \[p. 1\]. ##### n.37.222. key **Title** A *key* to the *families* of *flowering plants* growing wild or cultivated, out of doors in the northeastern United States, ed. 1.... Washington (privately published?) 1928. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1928 (date of Prefatory Note on p. ii), cover t.p., p. \[i-ii\], \[1-2, draw. by J.R. Adams\], 3-33. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), MO, US(2), USDA. *Note*: Based on a 1926 (and later?) mimeogr. "A key to the families of flowering plants". *Ed. 2*: 1932, A key to families... in the northeastern United States,... cover-t.p., p. 1-32. *Copies*: BKL, K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY(3) (n.v.), US, USDA. *Note*: Cover pages 3 & 4 are figs. ##### n.37.223. colonization **Title** The *colonization* of the *Katmai ash*, a new and inorganic "soil"... \[Reprinted from the American Journal of Botany...\] 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Feb 1933 (in journal, rec'd. 2 Mai 1932), cover-t.p., title recto of p. 92, p. 92-113. *Copies*: Gr-V, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Bot. 20(2): 92-113. 1933. ##### n.37.224. Growth **Title** *Growth* of *liverworts* from *Katmai* in nitrogen-free media... \[Reprinted from the American Journal of Botany...\] 1934. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Ready, Daniel (fl. 1934), chemist? *Publ*.: 9 Mai 1934 (in journal, rec'd. 28 Sep 1933), p. 265-277. *Copy*: Gr-V. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Bot. 21(5): 265-277. 1934.