> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1072](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190543) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8830-1) LSID 8830-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2840308) QID Q2840308 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author St. John, Harold (1892-x), American botanist; Dr. phil. Harvard 1920; assistant, later associate professor of botany at the State College of Washington 1920-1929; professor of botany at the University of Hawaii 1929-1958; Whitney visiting professor at Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1958-1959; teaching at Saigon 1959-1960; continuing botanical research in retirement in Hawaii. **Abbreviated name**: *St. John* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.St.John*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BISH|BISH]]; further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WELT|WELT]], [[Collection WS|WS]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. – St. John donated his professional correspondence relative to taxonomic studies of the vegetation of the American Northwest to [[Collection WS|WS]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 201 (b. 25 Jul 1892); BL 1: 110, 111, 126, 138, 141, 145, 186, 220, 316; BM 8: 1123; Bossert p. 345; Ewan ed. 1: 240, 296, 332, ed. 2: 192; GF p. 249; Hortus 3: 1205; IF suppl. 3: 217, 4: 339-340, IH 1 (ed. 1): 41,(ed. 2): 60, (ed. 3): 74, (ed. 4): 79, (ed. 5): 79, (ed. 6): 115, 363, (ed. 7): 116, 343, 2: (files); Kew 4: 566-570; Langman p. 664; Lenley p. 358; MW p. 423; MW suppl. p. 297; NW p. 35-37, 56; PH 209; Rehder 5: 753; Roon p. 108; Zander ed. 10, p. 721, ed. 11, p. 822. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Amer. Ass. bot. Gard. Arbor. 10(1): 22. 1976 (award of merit); Pac. Sci. 33(4): 435-447. 1979 (1980) (career synopsis; bibl.). - Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. & C.G.G. J. van Steenis, Fl. males. Bull. 26: 2042. 1972 (additions to St. John's evaluation of J.R. & G. Forster, *Char. gen.* of 1971). - Cattell, J.M. & J., eds., Amer. men Sci. ed. 5: 967. 1933, ed. 6: 1227. 1938, ed. 7: 1536. 1944, ed. 8: 2150. 1949. - Merrill, E.D., B.P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 144: 161-162. 1937 (Polynes. bot. bibl.); Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30: 261-263. 1947 (Bot. bibl. Pacific); Chron. bot. 14: 183, 260, 264, 351, 353. 1954 (Botany Cook's Voyage). - Pennell, F.W. & J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 618. 1935 (coll.). - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. club 87. 1955. - Rigg, G.B., Washington hist. Quarterly 20: 166-167. 1929. - Smith, A.C., Flora vitiens. nova 1: 76. 1979. - Stafleu, F.A., ed., Taxon 7: 180. 1958 (retirement). - Steenis, C.G.G. J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 7: 191. 1950 (at Leiden), 14: 626. 1959 (to Italy), 15: 708. 1960 (at Saigon), 22: 1528. 1968 (back from Italy). - Theobald, W.L., Bull. Pac. Trop. Bot. Gard. 12(3): 60-63. 1982 (award). - Thomas, J.H., Huntia 3: 20. 1969 (1979). #### Note See also H. St. John, *Nomenclature of Plants*. A text for the application by the case method of the International Code of botanical Nomenclature, New York 1958, 157 p. #### Festschrift Pacific Science 33(4). 1979. ### Publications ##### n.10.056. Sable Island **Title** *Sable Island*, with a catalogue of its vascular plants... Boston (Printed for the \[Boston\] Society \[of Natural History\]). March 1921. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Sable Isl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1921 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-103. *pl. 1-2. Copies*: BR, MO, NY. – Issued as Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 36(1): 1-103, *pl. 1-2*, and as Contr. Gray Herb. ser. 2. no. 62. Booknumber 10.057 has not been used. ##### n.10.058. A botanical exploration of the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence **Title** *A botanical exploration of the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence* including an annotated list of the species of vascular plants... Ottawa (F.A. Acland,...) 1922. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. explor. St. Lawrence*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 25 Mar 1922 (date on cover and t.p.), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-iii, \[1\]-130, 2 maps, *pl. 1* (frontisp.), 2-6 (in text). *Copies*: BR, FI, MICH, MO, NY, PH, USDA. – Issued as Memoir 126, Victoria Memorial Museum (Canada Dept. Mines). ##### n.10.059. An annotated catalogue of the vacular plants of Benton County **Title** *An annotated catalogue of the vacular plants of Benton County*, Washington... Contribution from the Department of Botany State College of Washington, no. 9. 1928. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: George Neville Jones (1904-1970). *Publ*.: 21 Oct 1928, p. 73-93. *Copies*: FI, G, MICH, U, E.G. Voss. – Reprinted with special t.p.-cover from Northwest Science 2: 73-93. 21 Oct 1928. ##### n.10.060. Plants of the headwaters of the St. John river **Title** *Plants of the headwaters of the St. John river*, Maine... Pullman, Washington, June 28, 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Jun 1929, (cover-t.p), p. 28-58. *Copies*: FI, MICH, U. – Reprinted with special cover and to be cited from Res. Stud. State Coll. Washington 1(1): 28-58. 28 Jun 1929. ##### n.10.061. Flora of Mt. Baker **Title** *Flora of Mt. Baker*... Reprinted without change from Mazama... December 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Edith Hardin \[later: English\] (1897-1979). *Publ*.: Dec 1929, p. \[i\], \[52\]-102, \[1, index\]. *Copies*: R.S.Cowan, FI, MICH, U. – Reprinted with a special t.p. and to be cited from Mazama 11: 52-102. Dec 1929. ##### n.10.062. Weeds of the pineapple fields of the Hawaiian Islands **Title** *Weeds of the pineapple fields of the Hawaiian Islands*... Honolulu (published by the University of Hawaii) 1932. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Weeds pineapple fields*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Edward Yataro Hosaka (1907-1961). *Publ*.: Sep 1932, p. \[1\]-196. *80 pl*. (uncol.). *Copies*: G, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA. – University of Hawaii Research Publication no. 6. ##### n.10.063. The plants of Mt. Rainier National Park **Title** *The plants of Mt. Rainier National Park* Washington... Reprinted from "The American Midland naturalist" vol. 18, no. 6, p. 952-985, November, 1937 Notre Dame, Ind. (The University Press) 1937. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Fred Adelbert Warren (1902-ca. 1940). *Publ*.: Nov 1937, p. \[i\], 952-985. *Copies*: FI, MICH. – Reprinted with special t.p. and to be cited from Amer. Midl. Natural. 18(6): 952-985. Nov 1937. ##### n.10.064. Flora of Southeastern Washington **Title** *Flora of Southeastern Washington* and of adjacent Idaho... Pullman, Wash. (Students Book Corporation) 1937. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. S.-e. Washington*. **Notes** *Collaborators*: Charles Piper Smith (1877-1955) for *Lupinus*; John Hendley Barnhart (1871-1949) bibl. *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 19 Jun 1937, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxv, 1-529. *Copies*: BR, MICH, MO, NY, PH, US, USDA. *Ed. 2*: 1 Mar 1956, p. \[i\]-iii, map, v-xxv, 1-531. *Copy*: G. "Revised edition 1956". *Ed. 3*: Nov 1963, p. \[i\]-xxix, 1-583. *Copies*: MO, US, USDA. – See Taxon 13: 147. 1964. *Ref*.: Constance, L., Madroño 4(4): 132-134. 4 Oct 1937 (rev. ed.). - Daubenmire, R.F., Leaf. W. Bot. 2: 199-200. 1939 (range extensions). - Fassett, N.C., Torreya 37: 127-129. 29 Dec 1937. - Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 76: 28. Jan 1938 (rev.). - Sprague, T.A., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1937: 519-520. 30 Dec 1937 (rev.). ##### n.10.065. Identification of Hawaii plants **Title** *Identification of Hawaii plants*: a key to the families of dicotyledons of the Hawaiian Island, descriptions of the families, and list of the genera... University of Hawaii Occasional papers, no. 36. \[1938\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Ident. Hawaii pl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Francis Raymond Fosberg (1908-x). \[*1*\]: 28 Jun 1938 (copies so stamped), p. \[1\]-53. – Univ. Hawaii Occ. Pap. 36. *2*: 20 Feb 1940 (id.), p. \[1\]-47. – Univ. Hawaii Occ. Pap. 41. *Copies*: R.S. Cowan, FI, MICH, MO, E.G. Voss. *Note*: See also H. St. John, List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii, 30 Aug 1973, 519 p., Mém. Pacif. Bot. Gard. no. 1, see also Taxon 24: 165. 1975.