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> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19310-1) LSID 19310-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8010768) QID Q8010768
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### Author
Gibson, William Hamilton (1850-1896), American mycologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. Gibson* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.H.Gibson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 46.
- Adams, The New England Magazine 15(6): 643-655. 1897 (portr.)
- Adams, William Hamilton Gibson, New York, London, x, 275 p. (portr., bibl.)
#### Eponymy
*Gibsonia* Massee (1909) is dedicated to R. J. Harvey-Gibson (1860-1929), English mycologist; *Gibsoniothamnus* L. Williams (1970) is dedicated to Dorothy Nash Gibson, American botanist.
### Publications
##### n.2010. Our edible toadstools and mushrooms
**Title**
*Our edible toadstools and mushrooms* and how to distinguish them / A selection of thirty native food varieties easily recognizable by their marked individualities, with simple rules for the identification of poisonous species... with thirty coloured plates and fifty-seven other illustrations by the author. New York (Harper & Brothers) 1895. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Our toadstools*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1895, (Nat. Nov. Jan 1896) p. \[1\]-xii, \[1\]-337., *38 pl. Copy*: NY.
*Ref*.: LS 9954.
- Barnhart, NAF 9(6): 436. 1916.