> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 272](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189743) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7721-1) LSID 7721-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6108718) QID Q6108718 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Piper, Richard Upton (1818-1897), American physician and botanist, MD Dartmouth 1840; practicing physician at Boston and Chicago. **Abbreviated name**: *R. Piper* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.Piper*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 88 (b. 3 Apr 1818); Lenley p. 466; ME 3: 473; Rehder 1: 304; Tucker 1: 558. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1601. 1870 (bibl.). - Anon., Appleton's cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 30. 1888 (b. 3 Apr 1818, probably correct). - Kelly, H.A. & W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 917. 1920; Dict. Amer. med. biogr. 970. 1928 (b. 3 Apr 1886, d. Aug 1897). ### Publications ##### n.7955. The trees of America **Title** *The trees of America*... Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1855, by R.U. Piper in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts \[Boston 1855\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Trees Amer.* **Notes** *1*: 1855, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-16, *3 pl*. (uncol. liths.). *2*: 1855, p. 17-32, *4 pl*. *3*: 1858, p. 33-48, *3 pl*. "Boston, A. Williams & Co.... 1858". *4*: 1858, p. 49-64, *3 pl*. "Boston, A. Williams & Co.... A. O. Moore... New York, 1858". *Copies*: NY, USDA. *Ref*.: Anon., North Amer. Rev. 85: 178-204. Jul 1857 (rev. Nos. 1, 2).