> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 92](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212134) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10293-1) LSID 10293-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610041) QID Q21610041 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sumner, George (1793-1855), American physician and botanist; studied at Yale (grad. 1813) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D. 1817); practicing physician at Hartford, Conn. 1819; professor of botany at Trinity College ib. 1824-1855. **Abbreviated name**: *Sumner* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sumner*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 347 (b. 19 Dec 1793, d. 20 Feb 1855); ME 3: 388; Rehder 1: 85; Tucker 1: 673. #### Biofile - Thoms, H., The doctors of Yale College 1702-1815. 67, 77, 156. 1960. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 5: 751. 1888. #### Eponymy *Sumnera* Nieuwland (1914). ### Publications ##### n.13.412. A compendium of physiological and systematic botany **Title** *A compendium of physiological and systematic botany*... Hartford (Oliver D. Cooke) 1820. Duod. (in sixes). **Abbreviated title**: *Comp. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1820, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-300, *pl. 1-8* (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH, US.