> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 548](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333687) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9530-1) LSID 9530-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615605) QID Q615605 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shafer, John Adolf (1863-1918), American botanist, pharmacist and plant collector; Dr. pharm. h.c. Univ. W. Pennsylvania 1904; curator of botany Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh 1897-1903; collected in Cuba with N.L. Britton 1903; museum custodian New York Botanical Garden 1904-1910; collected in Montserrat 1907 and Cuba 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912; with Britton in the West Indies 1913, at Vieques (Puerto Rico) 1914; collecting Cactaceae for Britton and Rose in South America 1916-1917. **Abbreviated name**: *Shafer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shafer*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]] (25.000); early collections (2.500) also in [[Collection CM|CM]]; other material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection HAC|HAC]], [[Collection HABE|HABE]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]]. *Field books* for the Cuban expeditions (except for 1903) are at [[Collection NY|NY]]; other field notes at [[Collection CM|CM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 264 (b. 23 Feb 1863, d. 1 Feb 1918); BL 1: 158, 212, 318; BM 8: 1181; Bossert p. 361; Hortus 3: 1204; Lenley p. 366; TL-2/783; Tucker 1: 646; Urban-Berl. p. 397; Zander ed. 10, p. 716, ed. 11, p. 817. #### Biofile - Britton, N.L., J. New York Bot. Gard. 19: 97-99. 1918 (obit.). - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men sci. ed. 1: 287. 1906, ed. 2: 420. 1910. - Chardon, C.E., Natural. Amer. lat. 1: 263-264. 1949. - Conde, J.A., Hist. bot. Cuba 100, 102, 106, 292, 295, 296-297, 302. 1958 (portr.). - Jennings, O.E., Trillia 5: 3-7. 1919 (obit.). - Kallunki, J.A., Brittonia 32(3): 397-420. 1980 (Cuban plant collections of J.A. Shafer, N.L. Britton and P. Wilson). - Leon, J.S.S., Mem. Soc. Club Hist. nat. 3: 203, 205-209, 211. 1918 (Cuban expl.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 661. 1985. - Stieber, M.T., Huntia 4: 162. 1982 (field notes). #### Composite works - (1) With N.L. Britton, *N. Amer. trees*, 1908, see TL-2/783. – Copies with "American Nature Series" imprint are at MICH, MO, NY, PH, USDA. (IDC 7515). #### Eponymy *Shafera* Greenman (1912); *Shaferocharis* Urban (1912); *Shaferodendron* Gilly (1942). ### Publications ##### n.11.852. A preliminary list of the vascular flora of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania **Title** *A preliminary list of the vascular flora of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania*... Reprinted from Annals of the Carnegie Museum,... 1901. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1901, cover-t.p., p. \[i = recto of 14\], 14-127. *Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Carnegie Mus. 1(1): \[14\]-127. 1901. – Add. O.E. Jennings ib. 3: 473-479. 1906.