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### Author
Taylor, Thomas (1820-1910), Scottish-born American mycologist, chemist and microscopist; chief of the division of microscopy, USDA 1871-1895.
**Abbreviated name**: *T. Tayl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Taylor*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BPI|BPI]]. – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 364 (b. 22 Apr 1820, d. 21 Jan 1910); BM 5: 2079; IH 2: (files); LS 26386-26404; Zander ed. 11, p. 116.
#### Biofile
- Anon., J. Bot. 33: 32. 1895; Who's who Amer. 1-5, 1899-1909.
- Kelly, H.A., *in* H.A. Kelly and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 1126-1127. 1920.
- Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 140, 173, 227. 1940.
- Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2. 72. 1981.
- Stevenson, J.A., Plant disease reporter 46(4): 230-231. 1962 (on T. and the delinting of cotton seed); Taxon 4: 183. 1955.
### Publications
##### n.13.821. Catalogue of the microscopical exhibit
**Title**
*Catalogue of the microscopical exhibit* of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the World's industrial and cotton centennial exposition New Orleans, 1884-1885. Washington (Gibson Bros....) 1885. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Cat. microsc. exhibit*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1885 (p. 3: Dec 1884), p. \[1\]-29. *Copy*: USDA.
##### n.13.822. Food products
**Title**
*Food products*. Twelve edible mushrooms of the United States illustrated with twelve colored types. How to select and prepare for the table... Washington, D.C. (Gibson Bros.,...) 1889.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1889 (p. \[3\]: 2 Dec 1885), p. \[1\]-23, *pl. 2. Copies*: PH, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Rep. USDA 1885: 100-108, *pl. 2*. 1885. Also published 1890, p. \[1\]-16, *1 pl. Copy*: USDA.
*Ed. 2*: 3 parts, 1891-1894.
*1*: 1893, frontisp., p. \[1\]-20. *Copies*: NY, USDA. – Reprint of 1889 original.
*2*: 1891, frontisp., p. \[1\]-23, *pl. 1-5. Copies*: BR, Stevenson, USDA. – "Eight edible and twelve poisonous mushrooms..." – See also Ann. Rep. USDA 1890: 366-373. *pl. 1-5*.
*3*: 1893, p. \[1\]-22, *pl. 1-6. Copies*: NY, Stevenson, USDA. – "I... II four edible mushrooms..." See also Ann. Rep. USDA 1891: 408-413. *pl. 1-6*, 1892: 282-290, *pl. 1-6*, 1893: 299-301. *pl. 1-5*.
*Ed. 3, 1*: 1894, frontisp., p. \[1\]-23. *Copy*: USDA.
*2*: 1893, frontisp., p. \[1\]-23. *pl. 1-5. Copies*: FH, NY, Stevenson, USDA. – Second revised edition (= ed. 3).
##### n.13.823. Student's hand-book of mushrooms of America
**Title**
*Student's hand-book of mushrooms of America* edible and poisonous... Washington, D.C. (A.R. Taylor,...) 1897-1898. 5 parts.
**Abbreviated title**: *Stud. handb. mushrooms Amer.*
**Notes**
*1*: 1897 (p. 3: 7 Mai 1897), p. \[1\]-24, *pl. A-B, 1-3* (numbered pl. col. liths.).
*2*: 1897, p. \[1\]-22, \[23-24\], *pl. C-D, 4-7*.
*3*: 1897, p. \[1\]-22, \[23\], *pl. E-F, 8-10*.
*4*: 1897, p. \[1\]-24, *pl. G-H, 11, 11½, 12-13*.
*5*: 1898, p. \[1\]-24, *pl. I, 14-16*.
*Copies*: FH, G, MICH, MO, NY, PH, Stevenson, U, US, USDA.