> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 997](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190468) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8747-1) LSID 8747-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2611285) QID Q2611285 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rusby, Henry Hurd (1855-1940), American botanist, physician and plant explorer; collected in New Mexico and Arizona before going to medical school; Dr. med. New York 1884; to South America for Parke-Davis Co. in search of cocaine in Bolivia and Peru and subsequently crossing the Amazon region from west to east 1884-1886; professor of botany and materia medica, New York College of Pharmacy (the later Dept. Pharmacy, Columbia Univ.) 1888-1905; dean of the faculty ib. 1905-1933; dean emeritus 1933-1940; one of the incorporators of the New York Botanical Garden and associated with it from its organization in 1898; curator of economic collections 1900-1911; honorary curator id. 1912-1940; member of the board of scientific directors 1900-1933; in later years travelling in Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico and again in Brazil, as well as throughout the United States; intrepid collector, "always... an amazing story to tell,... always in trouble". **Abbreviated name**: *Rusby* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rusby*\] #### Herbarium and types Rusby's pre-1884 herbarium (esp. Arizona and New Mexico) was sold to Parke-Davis Co., Detroit and is now at [[Collection MICH|MICH]]; the trip to South America 1884-1886 was also for Parke-Davis and the first set is also at [[Collection MICH|MICH]], but 6000 specimens went to [[Collection NY|NY]]; a special collection of economic plants is at [[Collection NY|NY]] and so are the first sets of Rusby's later trips, including that of the Mulford Biological Expedition to the Amazon Basin (1931-1932), incl. note books. Further material at: [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BKL|BKL]], [[Collection BOL|BOL]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection CU|CU]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection ECON|ECON]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LA|LA]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TRIN|TRIN]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection Z|Z]] and other herbaria. – Archival material in [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]] and SIA. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 660; Barnhart 3: 192; BJI 2: 150; BL 1: 238, 316; BM 4: 1768; Bossert p. 342 (b. 26 Apr 1855, d. 18 Nov 1940); CSP 12: 640, 18: 362; DAB suppl. 2: 590-592 (F. Hart); De Toni 4: xlix; Ewan ed. 1: 294, ed. 2: 189-190; GR p. 241; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 341, 2: (files); Kelly p. 202; Kew 4: 550; Langman p. 657-658; Lenley p. 356; LS 23252, 23253, 38654; NW p. 56; PH p. 522 (index\]; Rehder 5: 746; RS p. 138; TL-2/773, 781, see M. Bang, P.D. Knieskern; Tucker 1: 614; Urban-Berl. p. 312, 390; Zander cd. 10, p. 710, cd. 11, p. 810. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 39: 367. 1889 (app. New York Coll. Pharm.); Bot. Jahrb. 11 (Beibl. 25): 9. 1889 (app. N.Y. Coll. Pharm.); J. Amer. pharm. Ass. 4(3)1265-266. 1915 (portr. and caption); J. New York Bot. Gard. 41: 277. 1940; New York Herald Tribune 6 Sep 1925 (portr., sketch of life and work); New York Sun 1 May 1929 (proposed for Hanbury Medal), 9 May 1929 (rd. Hanbury Gold Award); New York Telegram 23 May 1929 (Rusby brings editor of "Time" magazine to court on Russian and Spanish ergot). - Ballard, C.W., Science ser. 2. 93: 53-54. 1941 (obit.). - Bender, G.A., Great moments in pharmacy 158-164. 1966 ("wresting the jungle's secrets"); Pharm. Hist. 23: 71-85. 1981. - Bonisteel, Wm. J., Torreya 41: 14-15. 1941 (obit.). - Cattell, J.M. & J., Amer. men Sci. 275. 1906, ed. 2: 404. 1910, ed. 5: 961-962. 1933, ed. 6: 1220. 1938. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 12, 17, 99, 150. 1969. - Hastings, G.T., Torreya 34: 17. 1934 (rev. Jungle memories). - Herzog, Th., Pflanzenwelt Boliv. Anden 2, 19. 1923 (Veg. Erde 15). - Kibby, A.L., Afield with plant lovers and collectors 387-390. 1953 (corr. H.N. Patterson) (fide Ewan). - Leonard, J.W., ed., Who's who in America 1899-1900: 623, 19: 2119. 1934, 21: 2242. 1940, 22: 1902. 1942. - Lipp, F., Garden J. 24: 70-75. 1974 (portr., "one of the giants"). - MacCreagh, G., White waters and black, New York, Grosset & Dunlop, The Century Company \[1926\], xiv, 404 p., 62 pl., map, reprinted 1961, New York, Doubleday, xvii, 335 p., 8 pl. (semi-scurrilous tongue-in-cheek description of an expedition led by Rusby although neither he nor any member of the party is mentioned by name. Halfserious. The "eminent botanist" was O.E. White; the "eminent leader" H.H. Rusby). - Moldenke H.N., J. New York Bot. Gard. 42: 38. 1941 (6000 Bolivian coll. at NY); Plant Life 2: 80. 1946 (1948); Chron. bot. 7: 230-231. 1943 (extensive obit.). - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 19-20. 1945 ("He always had an amazing story to tell and was always in trouble"). - Pennell, F.W. & J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 618. 1935. - Prance, G., Acta amaz. 1(1): 57. 1971. - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 84-85. 1955. - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. bot. 1873-1892, p. 336 \[index\]. 1944. - Rusby, H.H., Jungle memories, New York and London, Whittlesey House, 1933, xiii, 388 p., *16 pl*. (autobiogr.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 390. 1975 (colls.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 280. 1935, 3: 311. 1937, 4: 278, 565. 1938, 6: 234, 237. 1941, 7: 226. 1943. - Woodward, C.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 42: 43-45. 1941 (obit., portr.). #### Composite works - (1) With Thomas Morong et al., *List Pter. Sperm. N.E. North America* 1893-1894, see TL2-6342. - (2) *Phyllonomaceae, in* NAF 22(2): 191. 18 Dec 1905. #### Note - (1) William Sanford Rusby (b. 1852), brother of H.H. Rusby, collected widely in the United States from 1873 until 1883 or later. His main collections went to Parke, Davis & Co., the herbarium of which is now at MICH (inf. H.H. Rusby to J.H. Barnhart, see Barnhart 2: 192). - (2) Henry H. Rusby collected for Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit in South America (search for cocaine), in Bolivia and Para and Terr. Rondonia (Brazil) 1885-1886. The first set of these collections went to Parke, Davis & Co., and is now at MICH. A second visit to Bolivia and Brazil took place on 1921-1922 (on the Mulford Biological Expedition); the first set of this trip is at NY. – Rusby travelled in the Orinoco valley and other parts of Venezuela in 1893 and 1896; in Mexico 1908-1910, Columbia 1917. - (3) See under P.D. Knieskern for Rusby's role in securing the Knieskern herbarium. #### Eponymy *Rusbya* N.L. Britton (1893); *Rusbyanthus* Gilg (1895); *Rusbyella* Rolfe ex H.H. Rusby (1896). ### Publications ##### n.9812. Plants of New Mexico and Arizona **Title** *Plants of New Mexico and Arizona*... Franklin, N.Y. \[1881\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. New Mexico Arizona*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1881, p. \[1\]-4. *Copy*: NY. ##### n.9813. An enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. H.H. Rusby **Title** *An enumeration of the plants collected by Dr. H.H. Rusby* in South America, 1885-'86. I. General features of the region traversed. Enumeration of the Thallophyta. (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, vol. xv, no. 7. \[1888\]. Oct. **Notes** *Authorship*: nos. 1, 24-32 by Rusby, no. 2 by Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858-1934) et al. (see below), no. 3 by E.G. Britton; the remainder by Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934). *Publ*.: A series of papers, by various authors, and reprinted as Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College no. 6. |number |Bull. Torrey |bot. Club |reprint |author| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |15: 177-184. |2 Jul 1888 |\[1\]-8 |H. H. Rusby| |2 |23: 471-499. |28 Dec 1896 |\[9\]-28, 28a-i |E. G. Britton et al.| |3 |15: 247-253. |3 Oct 1888 |29-35 |E. G. Britton| |4 |16: 13-20. |12 Jan 1889 |37-44 |N. L. Britton| |5 |16: 61-64. |8 Mar 1889 |45-48 |N. L. Britton| |6 |16: 163-160. |8 Jun 1889 |49-56 |N. L. Britton| |7 |16: 189-192. |6 Jul 1889 |57-60 |N. L. Britton| |8 |16: 259-262. |5 Oct 1889 |61-64 |N. L. Britton| |9 |16: 324-327. |10 Dec 1889 |65-68 |N. L. Britton| |10 |17: 9-12. |15 Jan 1890 |69-72 |N. L. Britton| |11 |17: 53-60. |10 Mar 1890 |73-80 |N. L. Britton| |12 |17: 91-94. |10 Apr 1890 |81-84 |N. L. Britton| |13 |17: 211-214. |12 Aug 1890 |85-88 |N. L. Britton| |14 |17: 281-284. |9 Nov 1890 |89-92 |N. L. Britton| |15 |18: 35-38. |12 Feb 1891 |93-96 |N. L. Britton| |16 |18: 107-110. |4 Apr 1891 |97-100 |N. L. Britton| |17 |18: 261-264. |21 Sep 1891 |101-104 |N. L. Britton| |18 |18: 331-334. |15 Nov 1891 |105-108 |N. L. Britton| |19 |19: 1-4. |15 Jun 1892 |109-112 |N. L. Britton| |20 |19: 148-151. |5 Mai 1892 |113-116 |N. L. Britton| |21 |19: 263-266. |10 Sep 1892 |117-120 |N. L. Britton| |22 |19: 371-374 |15 Dec 1892 |121-124 |N. L. Britton| |23 |20: 117-140 |10 Apr 1893 |125-128 |N. L. Britton| |24 |25: 495-500. |10 Sep 1898 |129-134 |H. H. Rusby| |25 |25: 542-545. |15 Oct 1898 |135-138 |H. H. Rusby| |26 |26: 145-158. |18 Mar 1899 |139-!52 |H. H. Rusby| |27 |26: 189-200. |10 Apr 1899 |153-164 |H. H. Rusby| |28 |27: 22-31. |22 Jan 1900 |165-174 |H. H. Rusby| |29 |27: 69-84. |17 Feb 1900 |175-190 |H. H. Rusby| |30 |27: 124-137. |24 Mar 1900 |191-204 |H. H. Rusby| |31 |28: 301-313. |21 Mai 1900 |205-217 |H. H. Rusby| |32 |29: 694-704. |30 Dec 1902 |219-229 |H. H. Rusby| Numbers 1-23 re-issued together in a single volume with a special cover: Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College. – No. 6. An Enumeration... i-xxiii. By N.L. Britton. An account of the region traversed by Dr. Rusby; the algae and fungi determined by Prof. W.G. Farlow, the lichens by Dr. J.W. Eckfeldt, the musci and pteridophyta by Elizabeth G. Britton, the hepaticae by Dr. Richard Spruce. (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey botanical Club 1886-1896), p. \[1\]-128. *Copy*: US. ##### n.9814. Revised names of plants of New Jersey **Title** *Revised names of plants of New Jersey*, extracted from Britton's State Catalogue \[reprinted from the Druggists' Bulletin, July, 1890. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1890, p. \[1\]-23. *Copy*: USDA. Reprinted from Drugg. Bull., Detroit, 4: 219-229. Jul 1890. ##### n.9815. Botanical collecting in the tropical Andes **Title** *Botanical collecting in the tropical Andes*. \[Reprinted from Bulletin of Pharmacy, April '89.\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1891, p. \[1\]-20. *Copies*: NY, U. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Pharm. 5(4): 157-163. Apr 1891. ##### n.9816. The botanical names of the U.S. pharmacopoeia. **Title** *The botanical names of the U.S. pharmacopoeia.* \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of Pharmacy, July 1892\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1892, p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Pharm. 6(7): 305-312. Jul 1892. – Also in Proc. Amer. Pharm. Ass. 40: 204-217. 1892. ##### n.9817. Botany at the Rochester meeting **Title** *Botany at the Rochester meeting* of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. \[Reprinted from the Bulletin of Pharmacy, December 1892\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1892, p. \[1\]-23. *Copy*: G. Reprinted from Bull. Pharm. 6(12): 652-658. Dec 1892. – Contains a report by Rusby on the basic proposals put forward by American botanists on 19 Aug 1892 at the Rochester meeting of the A.A.A.S. in reply to O. Kuntze's Rev. gen. pl. of 1891 and the proposals made in 1892 by P. Ascherson, A. Engler, K. Schumann and I. Urban. The German proposals were: 1. starting point generic names 1752/1753. 2. nomina nuda and semi-nuda to be rejected. 3. similar names differing in the last syllable to be retained. 4. proposal to set up a list of nomina conservanda. The Rochester answer (proposed by H.H. Rusby, N.L. Britton, J.M. Coulter, F.W. Coville, L.M. Underwood, L.F. Ward, and W.A. Kellerman) accepted points 1-3 in its own rules affirming the 1867 Paris code with the following restrictions: 1. priority is fundamental. 2. starting point 1753, Linnaeus, *Species plantarum*. 3. specific epithets to be retained on transfer (negation of the Kew Rule). 4. absolute homonym rule; later homonym always to be rejected. 5. publication of generic names by (1) distr. printed matter of description; (2) by citation of the name with citation of included species with or without diagnosis. 6: publication of specific names by (1) distr. as in 5, (2) publishing a binomial with reference to a previously publ. species. 7. similar generic names do not differ necessarily when ending differs; they are to be rejected if they differ slightly in the spelling. 8. citation in parenthesis of author of epithet in original combination. ##### n.9818. Parke, Davis & Co **Title** *Parke, Davis & Co*., manufacturing chemists. Detroit, Mich., U.S.A. *Herbarium department*... H.H. Rusby Curator \[Detroit 1880-1881?\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Parke, Davis herb. dept.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880 or 1881, p. \[1\]-7. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – Updated list of New Mexico and Arizona material for exchange. ##### n.9819. An enumeration of the plants collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang **Title** *An enumeration of the plants collected in Bolivia by Miguel Bang*, with descriptions of new genera and species. By Henry H. Rusby... \[Mem. Torrey bot. Club 3(3). 28 Apr 1893\]. *Collector*: Miguel Bang. **Abbreviated title**: *fl*. 1883. **Notes** \[*1*\]: 28 Apr 1893, p \[1\]-67. Mem. Torrey bot. Cl. 3(3): \[1\]-67. 1893. – "On the collections of Mr. Miguel Bang in Bolivia". \[*2*\]: 27 Apr 1895, p. \[203\]-274. Mem. Torrey bot. Cl. 4(3): 203-274. 1895. \[*3*\]: 17 Nov 1896, p. \[1\]-130. Mem. Torrey bot. Cl. 6(1): 1-130. 1896. \[*4*\]: 5 Sep 1907, p. 309-470. Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4(14): 309-470. 1907. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, M, MICH, NY. ##### n.9820. New genera of plants from Bolivia **Title** *New genera of plants from Bolivia*... (Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club,... 1893\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1893 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. 429-434, *pl. 167-170. Copy*: US. – Contr. Herb. Columbia Coll. 40, reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey bot. Club 20(11): 429-434, *pl. 167-170.* Nov 1893. ##### n.9821. Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy **Title** *Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy* a treatise on structural botany. – Designed especially for pharmaceutical and medical students, pharmacists and physicians... New York (D.O. Haynes & Co.) 1895. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essent. veg. pharmacogn.* **Notes** *Co-author*: (part 2, minute structure of plants): Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945). *Publ*.: 1895, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-149, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: USDA(2). ##### n.9822. Morphology and histology of plants **Title** *Morphology and histology of plants* designed especially as a guide to plant-analysis and classification, and as an introduction to pharmacognosy and vegetable physiology... New York (published by the authors) 1899. **Abbreviated title**: *Morph. histol. pl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: (histology, p. 245-355): Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866-1945). *Publ*.: 1899 (p. iv: Sep 1899; Bot. Zeit. 16 Aug 1900), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-378. *Copies*: NY, USDA. ##### n.9823. A manual of structural botany **Title** *A manual of structural botany* an introductory text-book for students of science and pharmacy... Philadelphia and New York (Lea & Febiger) 1911. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Man. struct. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1911, p. \[iii\]-viii, 17 \[sic\]-248. *Copy*: MO. – Also with an English imprint, London (J. & A. Churchill). *Ref*.: Boulger, G.S., J. Bot. 50: 202-203. Jan 1912 (rev.). ##### n.9824. Descriptions of three hundred new species of South American plants **Title** *Descriptions of three hundred new species of South American plants*, with an index to previously published South American species by the same author. By H.H. Rusby, M.D. Published by the author... New York, N.Y.... 1920. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. S. Amer. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Dec 1920 (PH rd. 17 Feb 1921), p. \[1\]-170. *Copies*: HH, MICH, NY, PH, US, USDA. ##### n.9825. Jungle memories **Title** *Jungle memories*... New York and London (Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.) 1933. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Jungle mem.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1933 (p. viii: Jun 1933), p. \[i\]-xiii, \[1\]-388, *pl. 1-16. Copies*: MICH, MO.