> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 573](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333712) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9598-1) LSID 9598-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507532) QID Q1507532 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shull, George Harrison (1874-1954), American botanist and geneticist; Dr. phil. Chicago 1904; assistant Bureau Forestry USDA 1901; id. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1902; bot. expert USDA 1902-1904; assistant plant physiology Univ. Chicago 1903-1904; botanical investigator Carnegie Institution, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island 1904-1915 (discovered and analysed the phenomenon of hybrid vigor in maize breeding); professor of botany and genetics, Princeton Univ. 1915-1942. **Abbreviated name**: *Shall* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shull*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]; further material at [[Collection MO|MO]] and [[Collection NY|NY]]. – *Field notes* at [[Collection US|US]], *letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]; other letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 274 (b. 15 Apr 1874, d. 29 Sep 1954); Biol.-Dokum. 16: 8653; BJI 2: 164; BM 4: 1919, 8: 1198; Bossert p. 365; Hirsch p. 274; IH 2: (files); Lenley p. 368; PH 59, 309, 450, 939; SIA 221, 225; TL-2/5163, 5164; Tucker 1: 649. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 95: 448. 1904 (to Cold Spring Harbor 1 Mai 1904); Hedwigia 41: (143). 1902 (app. ass. U.S. natl. Herb.); Natl. Cycl. Amer. Biogr. A: 126. 1930; New York Herald Tribune 30 Sep 1954, p. 26 (obit.).; New York Times 30 Sep 1954; Österr. bot. Z. 65: 359. 1915 (to Princeton); Time 64: 113. 1954 (obit. not.); Who's who Amer. 5-28, 1908-1955; Who was who Amer. 3: 784. 1960. - Cannon, G.G., Great men of modern agriculture 201, 216, 218, 221, 222-224, 228. 1963. - Cattell, J.M., ed., Amer. men Sci. ed. 2: 427. 1910, ed. 3: 625. 1921, ed. 4: 893-894. 1927, ed. 5: 1017-1018. 1933, ed. 6: 1294. 1938, d. 7: 1623. 1944, ed. 8: 2271. 1949. - Crab, A.R., The hybrid-corn makers, New Brunswick 1947, xxv, 331 p. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 64. 1969. - Glass, B., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 124: 133-153. 1910 ("the strange encounter of Luther Burbank and George Harrison Shull"). - Harland, S.C., Nature 175: 62. 1955 (obit. not.). - Mangelsdorf, P.C., Genetics 40(1): 1-4. 1955 (obit., portr.). - Riley, H.P., J. Heredity 46: 64-66. 1955 (obit., portr.). - Riles, H.P., Bull. Torrey bot. Club. 82: 243-248. 1955 (obit., portr.). - Rodgers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 316-317, 321-327, 329, 485. 1949 (history discovery heterosis; corn breeding experiments; was possibly the first to use the word "gene" in the English language). - Rudorf, W., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 68a: 237-244. 1955 (obit., portr., bibl.; proposed concept of "heterosis" in 1914 in a lecure at Göttingen). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 42, 319, 361. 1936, 3: 31, 282. 1937, 4: 562. 1938, 5: - 119, 302, 494, 520. 1939, 7: 138, 185, 235. 1943. #### Composite works - (1) Founder and editor of *Genetics* 1-10, 1916-1925; on editorial board until 39, 1954. - (2) With D.T. MacDougal (q.v.), Anna Murray Vail (1863-1955) and John Kunkel Small (1869-1938), *Mutants hybrids. Oenoth*. 1905, TL-2/5163. - (3) With D.T. MacDougal (q.v.) and Anna Murray Vail (1863-1955), *Mutations variations Oenoth*. 1907, see TL-2/5164. ### Publications ##### n.11.922. A quantitative study of variation in the bracts, rays and disk florets of Aster shortii **Title** *A quantitative study of variation in the bracts, rays and disk florets of Aster shortii* Hook., A. novae-angliae L., A. puniceus L., and A. prenanthoides Muhl., from Yellow Springs, Ohio... Yellow Springs, Ohio (reprinted from the American Naturalist,...) 1902. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1902, cover-t.p., p. 111-152. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. Natural. 36: 111-152. 1902. ##### n.11.923. Stages in the development of Sium cicutaefolium **Title** *Stages in the development of Sium cicutaefolium*... Washington, D.C. (Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington) 1905. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1905, p. \[1\]-28, *pl. 1-7. Copies*: B, F, GB, MO, NSUB, U, Univ. Illinois, US. – Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publ. 30. ##### n.11.924. Elementary species and hybrids of Bursa **Title** *Elementary species and hybrids of Bursa* Reprinted from Science, N.S. Vol. xxv, no. 641... 1907. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 12 Apr 1907, p. 1-4. *Copies*: B, G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Science ser. 2. 25(641): 590-591. 1907. – See also his "*Bursa Bursa-pastoris and Bursa Heegeri*: biotypes and hybrids", Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 112, 57 p. 1909. ##### n.11.925. A pure-line method in corn-breeding **Title** *A pure-line method in corn-breeding*... Reprinted from American Breeders Association... 1909. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1909, cover-t.p., p. \[51\]-59. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted from Amer. Breed. Ass. 5: 51-59. 1909. – For the numerous papers on plant breeding by G.H. Schull, see the bibliography by Rudorf (1955). ##### n.11.926. Bursa Bursa-pastoris and Bursa Heegeri biotypes and hybrids **Title** *Bursa Bursa-pastoris and Bursa Heegeri biotypes and hybrids*... Washington, D.C. (Published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington) 1909. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bursa Bursa-pastoris*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909 (US rd 13 Aug 1909), p. \[1\]-57. *Copy*: US. – Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington no. 112. 1909.