> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 675](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212717) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11066-1) LSID 11066-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21611435) QID Q21611435 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Van Schaack, George Booth (1903-1983), American botanist and botanical librarian; Dr. math. Harvard 1935; instructor mathematics, Harvard 1929-1935; with Equitable Life Assurance Soc. 1935-1936; instructor mathematics Rochester 1936-1938, Michigan State College 1938-1940; assistant prof. ib. 1940-1943; became interested in botany (grasses) when U.S. Navy lieutenant in the Aleutian Islands during World War II; teacher in mathematics in St. Louis 1946-1960; from 1954 on the library committee of the Missouri Botanical Garden, from 1958-1968 librarian in charge ib.; librarian Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois 1968; in retirement at the University of Oregon, ultimately in Florida. **Abbreviated name**: *Van Schaack* \[standard form in IPNI: *Van Schaack*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection US|US]]; duplicates [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]]. Correspondence at Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 414; IH 1 (ed. 5): 161, (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 345; Roon p. 117; SIA 227, 7231 (HI 107). #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men Sci. eds. 6-10, 1938-1955; Bull. Hunt Inst. Bot. Docum. 4(2): 3. 1982 (archives at HU); Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 71(6): 10. 1983. - Eisendrath, E., The many sides of George van Schaack, \[unidentified\] p. 8-13 (on his work at MO).