> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 334](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212376) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10647-1) LSID 10647-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5877950) QID Q5877950 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thurber, George (1821-1890), American botanist and chemist; quartermaster and commissary on the United States Boundary Commission to settle the boundary between the United States and Mexico 1850-1853; with the United States Assay Office in New York 1853-1856; lecturer on botany and materia medica College of Pharmacy, New York, 1856-1860, 1865-1866; professor of botany and head of the Michigan Agricultural College 1859-1863; editor of the American Agriculturist 1863-1885; president of the Torrey Botanical Club succeeding J. Torrey 1873-1880. **Abbreviated name**: *Thurb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thurb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]] and [[Collection GH|GH]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]]. – The set of Boundary Plants at [[Collection CAS|CAS]] was burnt in 1906. *Library* and *Manuscripts* at [[Collection GH|GH]]. *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]], to J. Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]; other letters at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 382 (b. 2 Sep 1821, d. 2 Apr 1890); BM 5: 2111; Bossert p. 400; CSP 19: 116; DAB 18: 514-515; Ewan ed. 1: 64, 321, ed. 2: 220; Frank 3 (Anh.): 103; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344; Lenley p. 410, 470 (letter to Torrey); ME 1: 234, 3: 666; Morren ed. 2. p. 56, ed. 10, p. 127; PH 164, 567; PR 4555; Rehder 2: 403; SIA 220; TL-2/2128, 3203, 9657; see A. Gray, P.K.A. Schousboe; Tucker 1: 14, 690; Urban-Berl. 403. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. Agriculturist 49: 284. 1890 (obit., portr.); Bot. Gaz. 15: 126. 1890 (obit. not.); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 17: 112. 1890 (d.); Garden & Forest 3: 173. 1890 (obit.); Maine Natural. 6: 171-174. 1926 (information accompanying a reprint of his "Notes of an excursion to Mount Katahdin"); USDA Div. Entom., Insect life 3: 4. 1891 (obit. not.); Who was who Amer. hist. vol. 602. 1967. - Brewer, W.H., *in* S. Watson, Bot. Calif. 2: 556. 1880. - Day, M.A., Rhodora 3: 244. 1901. - Elliot, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 249-250. 1979. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 45. 1969. - Geiser, S.W., Natural. Frontier 282. 1948, Field and Laboratory 27: 223. 1959. - Gray, J.L., Letters A. Gray 406, 408, 694. 1893. - Halsted, B.D., Ann. Hort. N. Amer. 1890: 291-295. 1891 (obit., portr.). - Hexamer, F.M., *in* L.H. Bailey, Standard Cycl. Hort. 3: 1600-1601. 1915. - Knobloch, I.W., Plant collections N. Mexico 67. 1979. - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 98. 1955. - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 351 \[index\]. 1942; Amer. bot. 338 \[index\]. 1944. - Rusby, H.H., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 17: 204-210. 1890 (obit., portr.). - Sargent, C.S., Silva 3: 36. 1892. - Thomas, J.H., Huntia 3: 15. 1969. - Thurber, G., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 4: 26-39. 1873 (inaugural address, assuming presidency club). #### Composite works - (1) Contributed botanical entries to *Appleton's New American Encyclopaedia*. - (2) A. Gray, *Plantae novae thurberianae* 1854, see TL-2/2128. - (3) Collaborator, J.T. Rothrock, *Cat. pl.* 1874, see TL-2/9657. - (4) Contributed *Graminiae* \[sic\] (p. 29-30), to part 4, botany of J.C. Ives, *Rep. Colorado R.* 1860, see TL-2/3203. – N.B. The *Botany* part of this report is dated on its t.p. "1860"; the report as a whole is dated 1861. - (5) *Gramineae*, p. 253-328, *in* S. Watson, *Botany* \[of California\] 2, 1880. #### Eponymy *Thurberia* A. Gray (1854); *Thurberia* Bentham (1881).