> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 232](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212274) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10543-1) LSID 10543-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5725999) QID Q5725999 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tharp, Benjamin Carroll (1885-1964), American botanist; Univ. Texas AM 1915; Dr. phil. 1925; botanist and plant physiologist with the Texas Department of Agriculture 1915-1917; associate professor of biology Sam Houston State Teachers College 1917-1919; instructor in botany Univ. Texas 1919-1920, asst. professor ib. 1920-1925, associate professor ib. 1925-1933; professor of botany 1933-1956; emeritus id. from 1956. **Abbreviated name**: *Tharp* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tharp*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TEX|TEX]] (incl. field notes); other material at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BUT|BUT]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection NYS|NYS]], [[Collection OKLA|OKLA]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection SMU|SMU]], [[Collection UNL|UNL]], [[Collection US|US]] (2940), [[Collection WS|WS]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]] (SIA). #### Bibliography and biography BJI 2: 176; BL 1: 217, 321; Hirsch p. 298; Hortus 3: 1205; IH (ed. 1): 5, (ed. 2): 18, (ed. 3): 19, (ed. 4): 20, (ed. 5): 9, (ed. 7): 344; Langman p. 733; LS suppl. 27577; PH 209; SIA 227 (HI 107); Stevenson p. 1209; Tucker 3: 306. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 4-11, 1927-1967; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 335-336. 1969; Who's who Amer. 26-33. 1950-1965; Who was who Amer. 4: 934. 1961-1968 (b. 16 Nov 1885, d. 29 Nov 1964). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 727. 1985. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 6: 462. 1941. - Whaley, W.G., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 92: 489-492. 1965 (obit., bibl.). #### Eponymy *Tharpia* N.L. Britton et J.N. Rose (1930). ### Publications ##### n.14.007. Texas parasitic fungi **Title** *Texas parasitic fungi* new species and amended descriptions... Reprinted from Mycologia... 1917. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Mar 1917 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. 105-124. *Copies*: NY, Stevenson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Mycologia 9(2): 105-124. 1917. ##### n.14.008. Structure of Texas vegetation **Title** *Structure of Texas vegetation* east of the 98th meridian... Austin (published by the University of Texas) 1926. **Abbreviated title**: *Struct. Texas veg.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 8 Feb 1926, p. \[i-iv\], err. slip, \[1\]-97 \[98-100\], *pl. 1, 1a, 2-29. Copies*: G, HH, NY, PH, US. ##### n.14.009. The vegetation of Texas **Title** *The vegetation of Texas*... Houston (The Anson Jones Press) 1939. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Veg. Texas*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1939, p. \[i-ii\], err. slip, iii, \[v-vi, frontisp.\], vii-xvi, 1-74, mimeogr. err. slip. *Copies*: HH, NY.