> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 512](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212554) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10860-1) LSID 10860-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18911692) QID Q18911692 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author True, Rodney Howard (1866-1940), American botanist; student of W.F.P. Pfeffer 1893-1895; Dr. phil. Leipzig 1895; lecturer in pharmacognostic botany, Univ. Wisconson, Madison 1895; assistant professor ib. 1896-1899; lecturer in botany at Harvard 1899-1901; plant physiologist with USDA 1902-1920; professor of botany at Pennsylvania 1920-1937 and director Morris Arboretum ib. 1932-1940. **Abbreviated name**: *True* \[standard form in IPNI: *True*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]]; further material in [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection US|US]] (144 Alaska, orig.), [[Collection WIS|WIS]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 403 (b. 14 Oct 1866, d. 8 Apr 1940); BL 1: 222, 321; BM 5: 2145; Bossert p. 407; CSP 19: 217; GR p. 250; Hirsch p. 304; Lenley p. 415; LS 40081; NW p. 60; Rehder 5: 862; Tucker 1: 152, 702, 3: 313. #### Biofile - Anon., Allg. bot. Zeitschr. 1: 224. 1895 (app. Madison), 2: 52, 140. 1860 (d.). Amer. men sci. eds. 1-7, 1906-1944; Bot. Centralbl. 64: 94. 1895 (app. Madison), 65: 239. 1896 (lecturer), 66: 415. 1896 (asst. prof.), 79: 208. 1899 (resigns position Madison), 83: 175. 1900 (lecturer Harvard 1901); Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 383-384. 1969; Nat. Nov. 17: 669. 1895 (app. Madison); Science ser. 2. 91: 353. 1940 (d.); The New York Times 9 Apr 1940 (obit.); Who's who Amer. 7-22, 1912-1943; Who was who Amer. 1: 1255. 1968. - Core, E.L., Bibl. West Virginia plant life 7. 1962. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 396, 397. 1938. - Harvey, R.H., Chron. bot. 6: 424-425. 1941 (obit., portr.). - Humphrey, H.B., Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 253-255. 1961. - Lange, K.I., Michigan Botanist 20: 42. 1981. - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. expl. Trans. Miss. West 1141 (index) 1955. - Pease, A.S., Fl. N. New Hampshire 37. 1964 (coll. New Hampsh. 1904, 1931). - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 22: 22. 1943. - Shantz, H.L., Science ser. 2. 92: 546-547. 1940 (obit.). - Stieber, M.T., Arch. nat. Hist. 11(3): 428. 1984 (biogr. refs.). #### Thesis *On the influence of sudden changes of turgor and of temperature on growth*, Ann. Bot. 9: 365-402. 1895 (diss. Leipzig). ### Publications ##### n.15.236. On the flora of Madison and vicinity **Title** *On the flora of Madison and vicinity*. A preliminary paper on the flora of Dane County, Wisconsin... Reprinted from... the Transactions of the \[Wisconsin\] Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,... 1892 \[1893\]. Oct. **Notes** *Senior author*: Lellen Sterling Cheney (1858-1938). *Publ*.: 1893 (read 3 Jun 1892; p. 51: 27 Jan 1893), cover-t.p., p. \[45\]-135, map. *Copies*: HH, MO, USDA. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Wisc. Acad. Sci. 9: \[45\]-135. 1893. ##### n.15.237. Notes on the early history of the Pecan in America **Title** *Notes on the early history of the Pecan in America*... Washington (Government Printing Office) 1919. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1919, cover-t.p., p. \[i\], 435-448. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted and to be cited from Smiths. ann. Rep. 1917: 435-448. 1929.