> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 74](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212116) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10258-1) LSID 10258-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q603127) QID Q603127 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sturtevant, Edward Lewis (1842-1898), American agriculturist and botanist, M.D. Harvard 1866; running an experimental farm with his brother Thomas 1867-1882, breeding Ayrshire cattle; director of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N.Y. 1882-1887; private scientist at South Framingham 1887-1898. **Abbreviated name**: *Sturtev.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sturtev.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]]. – *Library* of pre-Linnean works at [[Collection MO|MO]] (catalogue see J.C. Bay 1896). – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 344 (b. 23 Jan 1842, d. 30 Jul 1898); BL 1: 6, 320, 2: 7, 720; Bossert p. 387; CSP 11: 529, 12: 710, 18: 1027-1028; DAB 18: 185-186; Hortus 3: 1205; Langman p. 725; LS 26132; MW suppl. p. 335; PH 164, 444; Rehder 5: 829; Tucker 1: 672, 3: 298; Zander ed. 10, p. 722, ed. 11, p. 823. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 33: 32. 1888 (retirement), 76: 144. 1898 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 26: 224. 1898 (d.); Hedwigia 37: (243). 1898 (d.); Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 296-297. 1967; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 586. 1967. - Bailey, L.H., Standard Cycl. hortic. 3: 1599. 1915. - Bay, J.C., The Sturtevant prelinnean library St. Louis 1896, Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 7: 123-316. 1896 (catalogue). - Day, M., Rhodora 3: 282. 1901 (coll. at Cornell). - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 244-245. 1979. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 13, 14. 1969. - Hedrick, H.P., ed., *in* Sturtevant's notes on edible plants, p. 1-16, 1919 (biogr., bibl.). - Plumb, C.S., Proc. Soc. Promot. agr. Sci. 19: 212-218. 1898 (obit.); Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 10: 71-84. 1899 (biogr. sketch; bibl.). - Rodgers, A.D., Amer. Bot. 338 (index) 1944, Liberty Hyde Bailey 504 (index) 1949. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 5: 735. 1888. ### Publications ##### n.13.341. Varieties of corn **Title** *Varieties of corn*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1899. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Var. corn*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1899, p. \[1\]-108. *Copies*: NY, US. – USDA Bull. no. 57. 1899. ##### n.13.342. Sturtevant's notes on edible plants **Title** *Sturtevant's notes on edible plants* edited by U.P. Hedrick... Albany (J.B. Lyon Company,...) 1919. (16-mo). **Abbreviated title**: *Notes edible pl.* **Notes** *Editor*: Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870-1950). *Publ*.: 1919 (p. iii: 1 Jun 1919), portr., p. \[i\]-vii, 1-686. *Copy*: USDA. – Rep. N.Y. Agric. Exp. Sta. 1919; Ann. Rept. Dept. Agr. N.Y. 27(2, 2). 1919. – p. 1-16 introduction and biogr. notes by editor.