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### Author
Billings, William Dwight (1910-x), American botanist, studied at Butler University, A.B. 1933, at Duke University A.M. 1935 and Ph.D. 1936, instructor in botany at the University of Tennessee 1937-1938, at the University of Nevada as an instructor in biology 1938, id. head of the Dept. of Botany 1949-1952, at the Duke University, Durham N.C. as professor of botany 1952.
**Abbreviated name**: *W.D. Billings*
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection RENO|RENO]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 187 (b. 29 Dec 1910, Washington, D.C.); IH 2: 74.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Amer. men women Sci., Biol. 66. 1977.
#### Note
- (1) With B.R. Strain editor of *Vegetation and environment*, Handbook of vegetation Science no. 6, viii, 194 p., 9 tables. Den Haag 1974.
### Publications
##### n.21.299. Winter key to the trees of Eastern Tennessee
**Title**
*Winter key to the trees of Eastern Tennessee*... Journal Southern Appalachian Botanical Club... 1937. Oct.
**Notes**
*Co-authors*: Roi Franklin Cain (b. 1902), and William Brooks Drew (b. 1908).
*Publ*.: Mar 1937 (date in journal), p. \[29\]-44. *Copy*: BKL. − Reprinted and to be cited from J. South. Appalachian bot. Club 2: 29-44. 1937.