> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 555](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333694) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9556-1) LSID 9556-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2596205) QID Q2596205 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Shear, Cornelius Lott (1865-1956), American botanist (agrostologist and mycologist); MA Univ. Nebraska 1901; Dr. phil. George Washington Univ. 1906; with the United states Department of Agriculture 1898-1901 as agrostologist, from 1901-1935 as mycologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry; from 1935-1950 in retirement and still active at USDA. **Abbreviated name**: *Shear* \[standard form in IPNI: *Shear*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]]. – Other material (often possibly exsicc.) at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (grasses, fungi), [[Collection PAD|PAD]], [[Collection RM|RM]] (fl. pl.), [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection US|US]] (grasses, fl. pl., orig.), [[Collection W|W]]. *Exsiccatae*: *New York fungi* cent. 1-3, nos. 1-200 and 300-400 \[sic\], 1893-1896, see Stevenson 1971. Sets at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection DAOM|DAOM]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NEB|NEB]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OC|OC]], [[Collection OS|OS]], [[Collection RUTPP|RUTPP]], [[Collection SCHN|SCHN]], [[Collection SOC|SOC]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection UT|UT]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WVA|WVA]]. *Correspondence* with B.O. Dodge at [[Collection NY|NY]]; with W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]; other letters at [[Collection G|G]] and [[Collection GH|GH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 132, 229, 281, 327-328; Barnhart 3: 267 (b. 26 Mar 1865, d. 2 Feb 1956); BM 4: 1912, 8: 1184; Bossert p. 363; CSP 18: 722; Ewan ed. 1, 183, 295, 304, ed. 2: 200-201; Hawksworth p. 186; Hirsch p. 272; IH (ed. 1): 9, (ed. 2): 22, 91, (ed. 3): 24, (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 342; Kelly 213, 257; Langman p. 697; Lenley p. 367; LS 24490, 24806-24814, 39199-39216, suppl. 8115, 25414-25460; MW p. 446; NI 3: 21, 61; NW p. 57; PH 209, 248, 450, 567; Stevenson p. 1258; TL-2/1142; Tucker 1: 647, 2: xxv, 3: 279; Urban-Berl. 382. #### Biofile - Ainsworth, G.C., Dict. fungi ed. 6: 535. 1971. - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 74: 256. 1898 (assistant Washington); J. New York Bot. Gard. 9: 76. 1908 (brief curr. vitae), 12: 141-142. 1911 (id.); Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 48: 317-318. 1965; Nat. Nov. 20: 266. 1898 (asst. agrostologist); The New York Times 3 Feb 1956, p. 23 (obit.); Taxon 5: 56. 1956 (d.); Who's who Amer. 7-27, 1912-1953; Who was who Amer. 4: 853. 1961-1968; Who's who Nations Capital 1921-1922: 351, 1923-1924: 335, 1934-1935: 807-808. - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 12: 141-142. 1911. - Cash, E.K., An index to C.L. Shear's Mycological notes, Mycologia 46: 367-371. 1954 (Shear's Mycological notes i-ix, appeared in Mycologia 29-40). - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men sci. ed. 1: 288-289. 1906, ed. 2: 423. 1910, ed. 3: 618. 1921, ed. 4: 884. 1927, ed. 5: 1006-1007. 1933, ed. 6: 1280. 1938, ed. 7: 1606. 1949, ed. 8: 2250. 1949. - Fairchild, D., The world was my garden 405-406. 1938 (work on chestnut blight). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 663. 1985. - Petrak, F., Sydowia 11: 1-17. 1957 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 90-91. 1955. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. Mycol. N. America ed. 1: 14, 29-30. 1977, ed. 2. 85 \[index\]. 1981. - Rogerson, C.T., Mycologia index 1048-1049. 1968. - Shear, C.L., Bull. Div. Agrost. USDA 25: 1-67. 1901 (Field work of the division of Agrostology; review of work 1895-1900); Mycologia 26(3): 201-209. 1934 (Mycology, scientific and otherwise; portr.). - Stevenson, J.A., Taxon 6: 7-9. 1957 (obit., portr.); Mycologia 49: 283-297. 1957 (obit., bibl., portr.); Phytopathology 47(6): 321-322. 1957; Beih. Nova Hedw. 36: 386-388. 1971 (New York fungi). - Stieber, M.T., Bull. Hunt Inst. bot. Docum. 2(2): 3, 4. 1980 (portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1:31, 44, 244, 298, 324, 335, 376. 1935, 2: 34, 308. 1936, 3: 27, 56, 325. 1937, 4: 181, 299. 1938, 6: 263. 1941. #### Composite works - (1) With F.E. Clements \[1874-1945\], *Gen. fung. ed. 2*, 1932, co-author, see TL-2/1142. - (2) Founder (1893) and first editor of the *Asa Gray Bulletin* (n.s. vol. 1, 1952 is dedicated to C.L. Shear; see tribute in 1(4): 344-348. 1952, portr.). - (3) Associate editor *Mycologia* 1909-1932. - (4) Editor, with A.H.R. Buller of the English translation by W.B. Grove of *Selecta fungorum carpologia* by L.R. & C. Tulasne, q.v. - (5) Co-author, L.H. Pammel, *Grass. Iowa* 2, 1905, see TL-2/7255. #### Note Contributions to the history of botany by C.L. Shear and Neil E. Stevens: - (1) *The botanical work of Ezra Michener* \[1794-1887\], Bull. Torrey bot. Club 44: 547-558. 24 Dec 1917. - (2) *The correspondence of Schweinitz and Torrey*, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16(3): \[i-iv\], \[119\]-300. 16 Jul 1921. - (3) Translation of L.R. and C. Tulasne, *Selecta fungorum carpologia*, see Tulasne. #### Eponymy *Shearia* Petrak (1924); *Sheariella* Petrak (1952). ### Publications ##### n.11.870. grasses and forage plants of the Rocky Mountain region **Title** A report upon the *grasses and forage plants of the Rocky Mountain region*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1897. **Abbreviated title**: *Grass. forage pl. Rocky Mts.* **Notes** *Senior author*: Per Axel Rydberg (1860-1931). *Publ*.: 1897 (submitted 20 Nov 1896), p. \[1\]-48. *Copy*: USDA. – Bull. no. 5, U.S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrostol. – TL-2/9852. ##### n.11.871. Studies on American grasses **Title** *Studies on American grasses*. A revision of the North American species of Bromus occurring North of Mexico... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1900. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stud. Amer. grass.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 3 Jul 1900 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-66. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA. – Bull. no. 23, U.S. Dept. Agr., Div. Agrostol. ##### n.11.872. Generic nomenclature **Title** *Generic nomenclature*... Reprinted from The Botanical Gazette... 1902. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1902, p. 220-229. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 33(3): 220-229. 1902. ##### n.11.873. Studies of fungous parasites belonging to the genus Glomerella **Title** *Studies of fungous parasites belonging to the genus Glomerella*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1913. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Stud. Glomerella*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Anna K. Wood. *Publ*.: 25 Jan 1913 (date on cover), p. \[1\]-110, *pl. 1-18. Copies*: FH, MO, Stevenson. – U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industry Bull. 252, 1913. – Rev. Mycologia 5: 171-172. 1913. ##### n.11.874. Cultural characters of the chestnut-blight fungus **Title** *Cultural characters of the chestnut-blight fungus* and its near relatives... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Niels Everett Stevens (1887-1949). *Publ*.: 5 Jul 1913, p. \[1\]-18. *Copy*: FH. – First of three papers in U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industry Circular no. 131. ##### n.11.875. Endothia parasitica **Title** *Endothia parasitica* and related species... Washington, D.C. 1917. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Endothia paras.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Neil Everett Stevens (1887-1949), Ruby Jarvis Tiller (1886-1917). *Publ*.: 15 Jan 1917 (p. 1), p. \[1\]-82, *pl. 1-23* (uncol.). *Copies*: FH, US, USDA. – U.S.D.A. Bull. no. 380, Contr. from the Bureau of Plant Industry. – See ING 1: 616. ##### n.11.876. Studies of the Schweinitz collection of Fungi **Title** *Studies of the Schweinitz collection of Fungi*... reprinted from Mycologia, vol. ix, no. 4, July 1917, and no. 6, November 1917. **Notes** *Co-author*: Niels Everett Stevens (1887-1949). *Publ*.: Jul and Nov 1917 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[191\]-204, *pl. 8-9*, 333-344. *Copy*: FAS. – Reprinted and to be cited from Mycologia 9(4): 191-204, *pl. 8-9*, Jul 1917, 9(6): 333-344. Nov 1917.