> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 621](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190092) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8219-1) LSID 8219-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19359323) QID Q19359323 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Redfield, John Howard (1815-1895), American businessman, botanist, zoologist and palaeontologist; member of a car-wheel manufacturing firm in Philadelphia; after retirement (1885) devoting himself to building up the herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. **Abbreviated name**: *Redfield* \[standard form in IPNI: *Redfield*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]](16.447); further material at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NA|NA]] (Martindale herb.), [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. – Archival material at [[Collection PH|PH]] and SIA. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 135 (b. 10 Jul 1815, d. 27 Feb 1895); BL 1: 185, 186, 314; BM 4: 1660; Bossert p. 327; CSP 5: 120, 8: 713, 12: 601, 18: 88; Ewan (ed. 1): 69, 80, 287-288, (ed. 2): 181; Hortus 3: 1202; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 430; Lenley p. 340, 467; ME 1: 223-224, 3: 643 \[index\]; Merrill p. 709; Morren ed. 10, p. 130; Nickles p. 864; NW p. 56; PH p. 517 \[index\]; Quenstedt p. 354; Rehder 5: 707; SIA 7073; Tucker 1: 585. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 49: 485. 1895 (obit., d. 28 Feb 1895); Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 5: 205. 1888; Bot. Gaz. 20: 128. 1895 (d.), 21: 181. 1896 (herbarium to be sold by PH to which it had been left to be sold for the benefit of continuing work on the Academy herbarium); Bot. Jahrb. 21 (Beibl. 52): 16. 1895 (d.); Bot. Not. 1896: 44; Nat. Nov. 17: 267. 1895; Recollections of John Howard Redfield, s.l., 1900, ix, 360 p. - Barnhart, J.H., *in* F.W. Pennell, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 617. 1935 (coll.). - Canby, W.M., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 22: 162-171. 1895 (obit., portr., bibl.), see also J. Bot. 33: 313-314. 1895. - Gray, J.L., Letters Asa Gray 836 \[index\] 1893. - Harshberger, J.W., Bot. Philadelphia 211-239. 1899 (biogr. bibl.). - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 1(5): 112. 1895 (d.). - McVaugh, R., Edward Palmer 62, 72, 74, 78. 1956. - Meehan, T., Bot. Gaz. 20(4): 175-176. 1895 (obit.); Fern Bull. 8(2): 25-26. 1900 (obit., portr.); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1895: 292-301. 1896 (obit.; d. 27 Feb 1895); Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 49: 485. 1895. - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 22: 10. 1943. - Redfield, J.H., Recollections, printed for private circulation, 1900, ix, 360 p. (autobiogr.). - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 81. 1955. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 335 \[index\]. 1944. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 200. 1905. #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl*. 7. 1956. #### Composite works With Edward L. Rand (q.v.) *Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine*, Cambridge 1894. #### Eponymy *Redfieldia* Vasey (1887).