> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 788](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333927) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9963-1) LSID 9963-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609283) QID Q21609283 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sperry, Omer Edison (1902-1975), American botanist; Dr. phil. St. Tea Coll., Peru, Nebraska 1934; botanist at St. Tea College 1925-1927; id. at University of Nebraska 1927-1928; high school teacher at Concordia, Kansas 1928-1930; instructor in botany at the University of Nebraska 1930-1935; head department of biology at Sul Ross State College, Alpine, Texas (later Texas A. & M. Univ.) 1935; from 1936-1967 professor at the Range Science Department, Texas A. & M. **Abbreviated name**: *Sperry* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sperry*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Field notes at [[Collection US|US]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 309 (b. 21 Mar 1902); BL 1: 216, 319; Bossert p. 378; Langman p. 714; PH 209. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 6-11. 1938-1967; Rangeman's Journal 2(2): 64. 1975 (obit. not.). - Fryxell, P.A., in lit. Apr 1983 (d. 5 Mar 1975). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 405. 1936, 5: 371. 1939, 6: 455. 1941. #### Eponymy The Theodore M. Sperry Herbarium at Kansas State College of Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.A. commemorates Theodore Melrose Sperry (1907-x), Dr. phil. plant ecology Univ. Ilinois. #### Note Outside our period with W.B. McDougall, *Plants of Big Bend National Park*, Washington, D.C. 1951, xii, 209 p. ### Publications ##### n.12.606. A checklist of the ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants of the proposed Big Bend national park of Texas **Title** *A checklist of the ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants of the proposed Big Bend national park of Texas*... \[Sul Ross State Teachers College Bulletin 1938\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1 Dec 1938 (date on cover of journal issue), published in Sul Ross State Teach. Coll. Bull. 19(4): 9-98. 1938. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA. *Additions*: 1 Mar 1941 (id.), id. 22(1): 9-60. 1941.