> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 87](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212129) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/27345-1) LSID 27345-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343134) QID Q1343134 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sullivant, William Starling (1803-1873), American businessman and botanist (bryologist); studied at Yale University, M.A. 1823; afterwards in charge of the family property in Ohio; active as a surveyor and administrator as well as a private scientist. **Abbreviated name**: *Sull.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sull.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FH|FH]] (1739 Hepat., 16.200 Musci; presented 1874); other material (mainly bryophytes) at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection GH|GH]] (phan.), [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MO|MO]] (incl. phan.), [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (incl. phan.), [[Collection OS|OS]] (phan. Ohio; dupl. of exsicc.), [[Collection PH|PH]] (incl. phan.), [[Collection US|US]] (incl. phan.), [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. Index to Sullivant's hepatic herbarium at [[Collection FH|FH]]: Sayre (1974), id. to the moss herbarium (Sayre 1984). The types of the hepatics of the Wilkes exp. were lost in the mails before Sullivant's death. – Unpublished *manuscripts* and *letters*, original drawings for *Icones muscorum*, original sketches for Gray's *Manual*, ed. 2 (genera of musci and hepatics) at [[Collection FH|FH]]; *letters* to S.O. Lindbergh at [[Collection H|H]]-UB; other letters at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. *Exsiccatae*: (1) *Musci alleghanienses* fasc. 1-2, nos. 1-292. 28 Jan 1846 ("1845"). Sets at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FR|FR]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection Z|Z]]. – See Sayre (1971) for further details. First sets published 30 Jan 1846. For schedae see *Musci alleghanienses* (1845) 1846, below. - (2) *Musci boreali-americani*, with Charles Léo Lesquereux (1806-1899), *ed. 1*, nos. 1-355, Columbi Ohioensium. Feb 1857 ("1856"). Sets: [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GRI|GRI]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NEU|NEU]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection W|W]]. For further details see Sayre (1981, 13) and below *Musc. bor.–amer*. 1856 \[i.e. 1857\]. - (3) Id. *ed. 2*, nos. 1-536, Apr 1866 ("1865"). Sets: [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. – For further details see Sayre (1971). - (4) *Musci cubenses* (coll. Charles Wright 1856-1858), nos. 1-131, Columbus, Ohio 1861. Sets: [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection H|H]]. *Index*: W.S. Sullivant, Musci cubensis, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 5: 273-290. 1861; some taxa descr. previously in id. 4: 275-282. 1859. For further details see Sayre (1971). *Accompanying text*: *Musci cubensis wrightiani* 1861, see below. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 346 (b. 15 Jan 1803, d. 30 Apr 1873); BM 5: 2047; Bossert p. 388; Clokie p. 250; CSP 5: 885-886, 8: 1045, 12: 711; DAB 18: 201 (by W.R. Maxon); De Toni 1: cxxi, 2: cxiii; Frank 3 (Anh.): 101; Herder p. 208, 262, 267; IH 1 (ed. 3): 42, (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 343, 2: (files); Jackson p. 154, 359, 361, 404; Lasègue p. 453; Lenley p. 398, 470; MD p. 230-234; ME 1: 232, 3: 662; MW p. 475; NAF ser. 2. 3: 43-45; NI 1911-1912, 2153; PH 364; PR 1281, 9043-9047, ed. 1: 9994-9995; Rehder 1: 313; SBC p. 133; SIA 7085; SK 4: cvii; TL-1/431, 1276-1280, 1317, 1319; TL-2/515, 2124, 4260 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 14, 673; Urban-Berl. p. 315. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2300-2301. 1878. - Andrews, H.N., The fossil hunters 190. 1980. - Anon., Bonplandia 6(2): 53. 1858 (member Leopoldina, cognomen Schweinitz), 8: 362. 1860; Bot. Zeit. 31: 463-464. 1873 (obit. not.); Bryologist 82: 512. 1979 (portr.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 20 (Bibl.): 47. 1873 (d.); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 26: 504-505. 1899 (Sullivant day Torrey bot. Club); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 8: 149-150. 1898; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 587. 1967. - Armstrong, C.A., Ohio Naturalist 1: 33-35. 1901 (eponymy). - Boone, W., Hist. bot. W. Virginia 7, 8, 48. 1965. - Britton, E.G., Science ser. 2. 10: 567-568. 1899 (Sullivant day). - Brown, J.H., ed., Lamb's biogr. dict. U.S. 7: 255-256. 1903. - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 245. 1979. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 12, 47, 90, 91, 92. 1969. - Geiser, S.W., Natural. Frontier 127-128, 193. 1948. - Gray, A., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 271-276. 1873 (obit.); John Torrey and William Starling Sullivant, Cambridge 1873, p. 13-19; *in* W.S. Sullivant, Ic. musc. Suppl. 1-9. 1874; Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. 1: 277-285. 1877; Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 6: 1-6. 1873; Sci. papers 2: 370-376. 1889. - Gray, J.L., Letters Asa Gray 837 \[index\]. 1893. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers N. Amer. Bot. 238-241. 1961. - Iwatsuki, Z., J. Hattori bot. Lab. 29: 53-69. 1966 (re-exam. Asiat. moss. Sull.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 712. 1985. - Maxon, W.R., Dict. Amer. Biogr. 18: 201. 1936. - Müller, K., Bot. Zeit. 24: 30-31. 1866 (A. Schrader, illustrator of Sullivant's Icon. musc., offers sets of Wright's Cuban musci, identified by Sullivant, for sale). - Penhallow, D.P., Trans. R. Soc. Canada ser. 2. 3 (sect. 4): 9, 10, 11. 1897. - Pfister, D.H., ed., Newsletter Friends Farlow 1(1): \[2\]. 1982 (portr., sketch). - Rodgers, A.D., "Noble Fellow" William Starling Sullivant 1940, xxii, 361 p., repr. 1968 (major biography, bibl., secondary literature (see e.g. Taxon 18: 578. 1969) (Rodgers was the great-grandson of W.S.S.); John Torrey 350. 1942 (index); American botany 1873-1892, p. 338 \[index; numerous entries\]. 1944. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 258-263. 1971 (extensive descr. of exsiccatae: Musci allegh., Musci cubens., Musci bor.-amer.); Bryologist 80: 518. 1977 (coll.), 84(4): 467-481. 1981 (publication dates of W.S. Sullivant's new bryophytes); Cryptogamie, Bryol. Lichénol. 5: 53, 55-56, 58, 59, 62. 1984 (on S. and T.P. James); Farlow Herbarium, Index to the Hepatic herbarium of W.S. Sullivant, Cambridge, Mass. 1974, 23 p.); *in* D.H. Pfister, ed., Cryptogams of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-1856. Unpublished manuscripts, p. 127-161, *pl. 1-17* (mss. on musci by W.S. Sullivant and L. Lesquereux); Index to the moss herbarium of William Sullivant, Farlow Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. 1984. - Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer., 1: 106. 1966. - Smith, A.M., Bryologist 8(1): 1-3. 1904 (based on A. Gray 1874). - Steere, W.C., Bot. Rev. 43: 294-299. 1977. - Stuckey, R.L., Bot. Soc. Amer. misc. Ser. Publ. 157: 29-30. 1979 (contr. phanerog. bot. Ohio 1830's and 1840's); William S. Sullivant and his cirle of Central Ohio-physician botanists in the 1830's and 1840's, Granville, Ohio, 1980, 14 p. (privately publ.). - Stuckey, R.L. & W.A. Wentz, Ohio J. Sci. 74(1): 23-24. 1974 (coll. phan. Ohio at OS). - Trimen, H., J. Bot. 11: 223-224. 1873 (obit. not.). - Tyler, D.B., The Wilkes expedition 400, 413, 415. 1968. - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. Diat. 4: 2375. 1971, 6: 3595. 1978, 7: 4232. 1978. - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 31, 42. 1978. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 5: 742-743. 1888. - Youmans, W.J. ed., Appleton's Pop. Sci. Mon. 48(5): 690-696. 1896; Pioneers Science America 394-401. 1896. #### Composite works Published Th. G. Lea, *Cat. pl. Cincinnati* 1849. TL-2/4260. #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl. 8.* 1957. #### Eponymy *Sullivantia* A. Gray (1842); for specific epithet eponyms see Armstrong (1901). – *Society*: *The Sullivant Moss Society* 1899-1949 (now Amer. bryol. lich. Soc). ### Publications ##### n.13.398. A catalogue of plants **Title** *A catalogue of plants*, native or naturalized, in the vicinity *of Columbus, Ohio*... Columbus, Ohio (Charles Scott,...) 1840. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Columbus*. **Notes** *Publ*. 1840, p. \[i\]-iv, \[5\]-63. *Copies*: HH, PH, USGS. ##### n.13.399. Musci alleghanienses **Title** *Musci alleghanienses*, sive enumeratio muscorum atque hepaticarum quos in itinere a Marylandia usque ad Georgiani per tractus montium a.d. mdcccxliii decerpserunt Asa Gray et W.S. Sullivant (interjectis nonnullis aliunde collectis). Concinnavit et exposuit W.S. Sullivant. Columbus, in Ohione. 1845. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Musc. allegh.* **Notes** \[*Ed. 1*\]: Dec 1845 or 1-7 Jan 1846 (see Sayre (1981) for extensive details; a copy was received by the Boston Soc. nat. Hist. at its session of 7 Jan 1846), p. \[1\]-72. *Copies*: GH (fide Sayre), NY, PH. – Sayre cites a letter by Sullivant to Gray 8 Jan 1846: "Received one copy of the Enumeratio by mail... I consider it a villanous affair & shall commit them to the flames on their arrival & wish you to do the same with those \[sic\] in your possession..." Various copies were even so distributed and remained intact. The edition has never been used as a source for the new names. Sayre proposes, on the basis of the author's intent to destroy the copies, that it was not effectively published. \[*Ed. 2*\]: 18-22 Mar 1846 (see Sayre (1981); a copy of this edition was received by the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. at its session of 18 Mar 1846), p. \[1\]-87, \[88, colo.\]. *Copies*: B-S, G, H, HH, NY, PH, Teyler; IDC 5755. 100 copies printed. Type same but rearranged. *Exsicccatae* accompanying the text: publ. 28 Jan 1846; for a description see Sayre (1981), p. 470 (2b) and see above under exsiccatae. *Review of exsiccatae and text* of ed. \[1\] by Asa Gray, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 1: 70-81. 1-15 Jan 1846 (err. on p. 312, Mar 1846). The review by Asa Gray contains citations of descriptions of 16 of the taxa from ed. \[1\], the names of which are therefore effectively published 1-15 Jan 1846; the two taxa corrected in the March issue (p. 312) were effectively published in the exsiccatae. *Other review* of the text of ed. \[2\] and the exsiccatae by Karl Müller, Bot. Zeit. 4: 807-811. 20 Nov 1846 ("verschwenderisch ausgestattet...") \[All sets were given, not sold, by Sullivant\]. ##### n.13.400. Contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America **Title** *Contributions to the bryology and hepaticology of North America*... Part i... Cambridge (Metcalf and Company,...) 1846. Qu. **Notes** *Part i*: 1-20 Sep 1846 (in journal, see Sayre (1981); the reprint was probably published somewhat later: on 12 Nov 1846 Sullivant requests that 50 copies of the reprint be sent to him), p. \[1\]-12 (p. 3-12, also numbered 57-66), *pl. 1-5* (uncol. liths. auct.). *Copies*: B-S, G, H, MO, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Mem. Acad. Sci. Arts ser. 2. 3(1): 57-66, *pl. 1-5.* 1846. *Part ii*: 6 Feb 1850 (in journal and as reprints, see Sayre (1981), cover-t.p., p. 13-20, *pl. 1-5* (id.). *Copies*: B, GH, H, NY. – Reprinted with special cover and double pagination from Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. ser. 2. 4(1): \[169\]-176, *pl. 1-5.* 1849 \[i.e. 1850\]. – Title on reprint cover: "Contributions... North America. By William S. Sullivant. Part ii... 1849". ##### n.13.401. The musci and hepaticae of the Northern United States **Title** *The musci and hepaticae of the Northern United States*, (from New England to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, contributed to Gray's Manual of the botany of the Northern United States by Wm. S. Sullivant. Cambridge (Metcalf and Company...) 1848. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: after 11-29 Feb 1848 (see Sayre (1981)), p. \[i-iii\], 641-696 ("correction" on p. \[iii\]). *Copies*: FH, H, HH. – Reprinted with additional erratum, and to be cited from A. Gray, *Manual* 641-696. 10 Feb 1848. ##### n.13.402. Notices of some new species of mosses **Title** *Notices of some new species of mosses*, from the Pacific Islands, in the collection of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Captain Wilkes,... Cambridge (Metcalf and Company,...) Jan 1854. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Not. sp. moss.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1854 (date on t.p. preprint; copy presented to Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. session 15 Mar 1854), p. \[1\]-12. *Copies*: G(2), HH, NY(2), PH. – Preprinted from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 3: 73-81. Mai-Jul 1854 (see Sayre (1981)). Title in journal: "*Notices of new species of mosses from the Pacific Islands*". *Continuation*: Jan (or Feb?) 1855 (more probably Feb 1855, see Sayre (1981)), p. \[13\]-16. *Copies*: G, HH, NY. – Preprinted from id. 3: 181-185. Nov-Dec 1855. New genus *Alsia* Sull. ##### n.13.403. The musci and hepaticae of the United States **Title** *The musci and hepaticae of the United States* east of the Mississipi River. Contributed to the second edition of Gray's Manual of botany,... New York (George P. Putnam & Co.) 1856. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Musc. hepat. U.S.* **Notes** *First publ. of text*: circa 1 Sep 1856 (TL-2/2124) *in* A. Gray, *Manual* ed. 2. 607-702, *pl. 1-8.* – Also included in ed. 2, revised editions of 1858 (n.v.) and 1859 as well as in ed. 4, 1863 and ed. 4 revised (p. 607-743, *pl. 15-23*, 1865). Not included in other issues of Manual after 1865. – A section on Hepatics by L.M. Underwood was included in ed. 6, 1890. *Note*: The new taxa date from circa 1 Sep 1856; references to *Musci boreali-americana* were premature: the book had not yet been published. For further details see Sayre (1981, 11). *Reprint*: Oct 1856 (see Sayre (1981, 12), t.p. as given in heading), p. \[i\]-iv, \[607(7)\]-702(102), additions 103-105, \[106\], expl. pl. \[731(107)\]-737(113), index \[107\]-112 sic, \[1, h.t.\], *pl. 1-8. Copies*: G, HH, MICH, NY, USDA; IDC 7624. *Ref*.: Müller, K., Bot. Zeit. 15: 671-675, 690-693. 1857 (rev.). ##### n.13.404. Musci boreali-americani **Title** *Musci boreali-americani*, quorum specimina exsiccata W.S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux ediderunt. Columbi Ohioensium, sumptibus auctorum 1856 \[1857\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Musc. bor.-amer.* **Notes** *Co-author*: \[Charles\] Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889). *Text*: Feb 1857 (see Sayre (1981, 13) for extensive details), p. \[1\]-84. *Copies*: HH, USDA. – Ref. D.F.L. Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 16: 108-109. 16 Apr 1858. *Exsiccatae*: Feb 1857, see above under exsiccatae and Sayre (1981, 13). – "*Musci boreali-americani*, sive specimina exsiccata muscorum in Americae rebuspublicis foederatis detectorum... 1856, p. \[i\], \[1-5\] and exsiccatae. *Copies*: B, NY. *Editio secunda, Text*: Jul 1865 (see Sayre (1981, 19), p. \[1\]-96. – "Editio secunda"... 1865. Qu. *Copies*: B, FH, G, HH, NY(2), PH, USDA. – *Exsiccatae*: Mar 1866 (see Sayre 1981, 20). ##### n.13.405. Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean **Title** *Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean*. War Department. Route near the thirty-fifth parallel, explored by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple, topographical engineer, in 1853 and 1854. *Report on the Botany of the Expedition*. \[p. 185: no. 5. *Description of the mosses and liverworts*. By W.S. Sullivant\]. Washington, D.C. 1856 \[i.e. 1857\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific, Descr. moss. liverw.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1857 (see Sayre (1981, 14) for a detailed discussion. The Sullivant reprints came out in Aug 1857), p. \[i, t.p. as above\], \[185\]-193, *pl. 1-10* (uncol. liths. W.S. Sullivant and A. Schrader). *Copies*: G, NY, U; IDC 5772 (in part). – Reprinted from *Expl. railroad Mississippi Pacific vol 4., part 2* (with above t.p.), paper no. 5. – Sayre recommends as an abbreviated title: Expl. Surv. railr. Pacific 4(2): 185-193 ("1856") 1857. – Copies vary: sometimes as part of complete partial volume 4(2) and sometimes as simple reprints with the Sullivant text only preceded by the 4(2) t.p. ##### n.13.406. Characters of some new musci **Title** *Characters of some new musci* collected by Charles Wright in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under the command of Captain John Rodgers, U.S.N. By William S. Sullivant and Leo Lesquereux. August 1859. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Char. new musci*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Charles Léo Lesquereux (1806-1889). *Publ*.: Aug 1859 (date on p. 1; possibly also only in September because the reprint of the paper by Asa Gray in the same volume came out in September; see Sayre (1981, 15)), p. \[1\]-7. *Copies*: G (with 17 pp. drawings), H, HH, NY. – Preprinted from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 4: 275-282. 1860. – The accompanying drawings, on *17 plates* were published by G. Sayre in D.P. Pfister, ed., Crypt. U.S. North Pacif. Expl. Exp. 1853-1856, pl. 1-17 (with reproduction of mss. text on p. 127-161). 1978. ##### n.13.407. United States Exploring Expedition **Title** *United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. *Botany. Musci.* By William S. Sullivant. With twenty-six folio plates. Philadelphia (printed by C. Sherman & Son) 1859. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *U.S. Expl. Exped., Musc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1-18 Mai 1860 (t.p. 1859; for details see Sayre (1981, 16), p. \[1\]-32, *pl. 1-26* (uncol. copp. author and A. Schrader). *Copies*: MO, NY. – "Unofficial" issue of part of volume 17 of the U.S. Exp. (Wilkes) series. The letterpress in this separate issue is set up in folio, in double columns to match the plates. – Hasskell 69. *Official issue*: 1874 in *United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838-1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. vol. xvii. Botany I. Lower Cryptogamia ii. Phanerogamia of the Pacific Coast of North America. Philadelphia (printed by C. Sherman) 1862, 1875, on p. \[3\]-112, "Musci. By William S. Sullivant". – See also TL-2/239 and Haskell 68. *Copies*: LC, US. *Plates official issue*: The Sullivant plates were not included in the official issue; "they are usually found only with the accompanying text issued by the author in 1859" (Haskell), or they may be bound with Haskell 72, the unofficial issue of the other 29 plates of algae, lichenes, fungi and "botany" 1-17. The Sullivant plates are included in the 1969 facsimile. *Facsimile ed*. 1971, US Exploring Expedition (Wilkes Expedition) volume xvii, Botany iii. Reprint 1971, Lehre (Verlag von J. Cramer), Hist. nat. class. 87(3), text on p. \[3\]-112 (text as in official issue 1874, Haskell 68) plates in separate atlas as Haskell 72 but in this case indeed with the plates of the musci. The atlas vol. 17, *Lower Cryptogamia*... is dated 1862; users of this facsimile should realize that the plates were actually issued 1-18 Mai 1860 with the "1859" unofficial issue treated above (Haskell 69). *Copies* of facsimile ed.: BR, FAS. *Ref*.: Haskell, D.C., Bull. New York Publ. Library 45: 842-845. 1941. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 84: 477-478. 1981. - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 21: 172. 1972. ##### n.13.408. Musci cubenses wrightiani **Title** *Musci cubenses wrightiani*, coll. 1856-1858, by William S. Sullivant. Extracted from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, August 1861. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Musc. cub. wright.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1860 (date on preprint: Aug 1859; see Sayre (1981, 9, 17) for the dating of this preprint), p. \[i\], 273-290. *Copies*: B, G, H, HH, NY(2). – Preprinted from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 5: 273-290. 1862. *Ref*.: Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 160. 1898. ##### n.13.409. Icones muscorum **Title** *Icones muscorum*, or figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured... Cambridge, Mass. (Sever and Francis), London (Trübner & Co.) 1864. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Icon. Musc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1864 (for details on date see Sayre (1981, 18) and TL-1/1279), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-216, *pl. 1-128, 72b* (= *129*). *Copies*: B-S, FH, G, HH, NY, PH, US, USDA; IDC 620. *Supplement*: 1-25 Feb 1875 (t.p. 1874; for details on date see Sayre (1981, 22, who also discusses the role of Asa Gray and Leo Lesquereux in producing the supplement after Sullivant's death), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-109, *pl. 1-81. Copies*: FH, G, HH, NY(2), PH, US, USDA; IDC 621. – Contains on p. \[1\]-8 a biographical sketch of Sullivant by Asa Gray. *Facsimile ed*. of *1864 original*: 1969, Amsterdam (A. Asher & Co.), New York (S-H Service Agency, Inc.), with a new foreword by Andrew Denny Rodgers iii, p. \[i\*-ii\* new\], \[i\], \[i\*\*-iv\*\* foreword by Rodgers\], \[v\]-viii, \[1\]-216, *pl. 1-128, 72b. Copies*: B, BR, FAS, U. – ISBN 90-6123-145-0. *Facsimile ed. Supplement*: 1969, as above, p. \[i-ii\], \[i\*-ii\* new t.p., impr.\], \[iii\], \[i\*-iv\*\* foreword by Rodgers, identical with that in facs. of 1864 original\], \[vii\]-viii, \[1\]-109, *pl. 1-81. Copies*: B, BR, FAS, U. – ISBN 90-6123-145-0.