> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 771](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333910) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9945-1) LSID 9945-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609257) QID Q21609257 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spalding, Volney Morgan (1849-1918), American botanist; B.A. Univ. Mich. 1873; principal of high schools at Battle Creek and Flint, Mich. 1873-1876; instructor in zoology and botany, Univ. Michigan 1876-1879, asst. professor 1879-1881, acting professor 1881-1886, full professor of botany 1886-1904; Dr. phil. Leipzig 1904; with the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Tucson, Ariz. 1905-1909; in retirement because of ill health at Loma Linda, Calif. 1909-1918; from 1896 married with Effie Almira Southworth. **Abbreviated name**: *Spalding* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spalding*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MICH|MICH]]; other material at [[Collection ARIZ|ARIZ]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 307 (b. 29 Jan 1849, d. 12 Nov 1918); BL 1: 189, 319; BM 8: 1228; Bossert p. 377; DAB 17: 427-428 (W.R. Maxon); De Toni 4: liv; Ewan ed. 1: 311, ed. 2: 207-208; Langman p. 713; Lenley p. 380; LS 25515, 39403; Morren ed. 2, p. 124; Rehder 5: 815; TL-2/2231; Tucker 1: 662, 3: 290. #### Biofile - Anon., Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. 10: 56. 1900; Anon., Nat. Nov. 26: 599. 1904 (retires from professorship at Ann Arbor); Science ser. 2. 48: 543-544. 1918 (d.); Who's who Amer. 1-12, 1899-1923; Who was who Amer. 1: 1159. 1968. - Bartlett, H.H., History of botany at the Univ. of Michigan, chapter 8; mss. at MICH, 42 p. - Brown, J.H., ed., Lambs biogr. dict. U.S. 7: 159-160. 1903. - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men sci. ed. I.: 302. 1906, ed. 2: 443. 1910. - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. sci. 240. 1979. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. Bot. 236-238. 1961. - Leonard, J.W., Who's who in America 1899-1900: 679. - Mains, E.B., *in* Donelly, W.A. et al., The University of Michigan, an encyclopedic survey 497, 498, 501. 1943 (see also 1446-1448). - Maxon, W.R., Amer. dict. biogr. 17: 427-428. 1935. - Reed, H.S., Plant World 22(1): 14-18. 1919 (obit., port.). - Rodgers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 503 \[index\]. 1949; Bernard Eduard Fernow 621 \[index\]. 1951. - Spalding, C.W., The Spalding memorial, 1897 (n.v.). - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Mich. herb. 13: 35, 51, 68, 71, 85. 1978. ### Publications ##### n.12.524. Guide to the study of common plants **Title** *Guide to the study of common plants* an introduction to botany... Boston, U.S.A. (D.C. Heath & Co.,...) 1893. **Abbreviated title**: *Guide stud. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1893, p. \[i\]-xxiii, 1-246. *Copies*: HH, NY. *Re-issue 1894*: 1894 (Bot. Zeit. 16 Jul 1894), p. \[i\]-xxiii, 1-246. *Copy*: USDA. *Other ed. 1895*: 1895 (NY copy rd by L.M. Underwood), 31 Mar 1895; Bot. Gaz. Mai 1895), p. \[i\]-xxiii, 1-294. *Copies*: HH, NY. *Re-issue 1896*: 1896, p. \[i\]-xxiii, 1-294. *Copy*: USDA. ##### n.12.525. The White Pine **Title** *The White Pine*. (Pinus Strobus Linnaeus). By V.M. Spalding,... revised and enlarged by B.E. Fernow,... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1899. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *White Pine*. **Notes** *Authorship*: the first draft by Spalding was not published; the manuscript was revised and edited by the forester Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1851-1923) with contributions by the entomologist F.H. Chittenden and the wood anatomist Filibert Roth (1858-1925). *Publ*.: 1899 (p. \[3\]: 15 Mar 1898, frontisp., p. \[1\]-185, *pl. 1-13* (uncol.). *Copies*: HH, LC, MO, NY. – Issued as Bull. no. 22. U.S. Dept. Agr., Div. Forestry. *Revised ed*. 1902, p. \[1\]-185, *pl. 1-14*, revised and enlarged by B.E. Fernow (n.v.). ##### n.12.526. Distribution and movements of desert plants **Title** *Distribution and movements of desert plants*... Washington, D.C. (published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington) 1909. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Distr. movem. desert pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Oct 1909 (stamp on p. \[ii\] of several copies; Bot. Zeit. 1 Mar 1910; Nat. Nov. Aug(2) 1910), p. \[i\]-v, 1-144, *pl. 31* (photos, maps, charts). *Copies*: B, BR, HH, MO, NY, USDA. *Ref*.: Taylor, N., Torreya 10(3): 66-67. 31 Mar 1910 (rev.).