> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 791](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333930) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9971-1) LSID 9971-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8013515) QID Q8013515 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spillman, William Jasper (1863-1931), American botanist and geneticist; BS. Univ. Missouri 1886; MS. ib. 1889; Dr. sci. Temple Univ., Philadelphia 1890; professor of agriculture at the Washington State Experimental Station, Pullman 1894-1901; agrostologist at the Bureau of Plant Industry, USDA, Washington, D.C. from 1902-1915; from 1915 in various other functions at USDA, from 1928 principal agricultural economist; originator of the first hybrid wheats grown in the U.S. **Abbreviated name**: *Spillman* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spillman*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Some material at [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WS|WS]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 310 (b. 23 Oct 1863, d. 11 Jul 1931); BM 5: 1991; DAB 17: 458-459; NW p. 58; Tucker 1: 663-664, 3: 291. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 1-4: 1906-1927; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. 227: 599-600. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 176: 663-665. 1949; Expt. Sta. Rec. USDA 65(7): 601, 604-607. 1931 (obit.); Hedwigia 41: (143). 1902 (succeeds Lamson-Scribner at USDA); Offic. Rec. USDA 10(30): 218. 1931 (obit.); Science ser. 2. 74: 62. 1931 (d.); Who's who Amer. 4-17, 1906-1933; Who was who Amer. 1: 1164. 1968. - Deam, C.C., Fl. Indiana 1118. 1940 (coll.). - Johnson, L.P.V., J. Heredity 39: 247-252. 1948 (evaluation of his pre-Mendelian wheat experiments). - Roberts, H.F., Plant hybridization before Mendel 276-283. 1965 (on important early paper on hybridization of wheat). - Rodgers, A.D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 249, 261-267, 272, 443. 1949. - Spillman, R., J. Heredity 39: 253-254. 1948 (further evidence of importance of pre-Mendelian work). #### Note For Spillman's early work on hybridization see his *Quantitive studies on the transmission of parental characters to hybrid offspring*, Bull. Office Expt. Sta. USDA 115, 1901 and *The hybrid wheats*, Bull. Agr. Exp. Sta. State Coll. Washington 89, 1909. ### Publications ##### n.12.618. Farm grasses of the United States **Title** *Farm grasses of the United States*. A practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc. etc.... New York (Orange Judd Company). London (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,...) 1909. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Farm grass. U.S.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Feb 1905 (Nat. Nov. Mar(2) 1905), p. \[i\]-xv, 1-248. *Copy*: USDA (portr. on p. \[iv\]). *Reissue*: 1909, p. \[i\]-xv, 1-248. *Copy*: USDA. *Reissue*: 1911, p. \[i\]-xv, 1-248. *Copy*: USDA. *Reissue*: 1912, p. \[i\]-xv, 1-248. *Copy*: USDA.