> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 808](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190279) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8436-1) LSID 8436-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607267) QID Q21607267 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Robbins, William Jacob (1890-1978), American botanist; A.B. Lehigh Univ. 1910; Dr. phil. Cornell Univ. 1915; assistant, later instructor for plant physiology at Cornell 1912-1916; professor of botany in the Alabama Polytechnical Institute 1916-1918; on active duty 1918; soil biochemist with USDA 1919; professor of botany and chairman of the Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Missouri, 1919-1937; dean Graduate School 1930-1937; director of the New York Botanical Garden and professor of botany at Columbia Univ., N.Y. 1937-1957; Dr. Sci. h.c. Lehigh 1937, Fordham Univ. 1945. **Abbreviated name**: *W.J. Robbins* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.J.Robbins*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 110, 330; Bossert p. 333; IH 1 (ed. 1): 69, (ed. 2): 88, (ed. 3): 111; Lenley p. 345-349; MW suppl. p. 294; PH 418. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1938: 52 (app. NYBG); Current biogr. Yearb. 1956: 515-517 (biogr., portr.); Garden J. 8: 73. 1958 (retirement); J. New York Gard. 38: 249-252. 1937 (biogr. note; portr; b. 22 Feb 1890); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 1 (1953-1959): 178-179. 1960; New York Botanical Gard., Newsletter 12(8): \[2\]. 1979 (d. 5 Oct 1978 at New York; obit., portr.). - Cattell, J.M., Amer. men sci. ed. 3: 578. 1921, ed. 4: 824. 1927, ed. 5: 939. 1933, ed. 6: 1190. 1938, ed. 7: 1488. 1944, ed. 8: 2080. 1949. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 18, 71. 1969. - Hellman, G.T., New Yorker 23: 30-54. 1947 ("Square deal among the fungi"). - Kavanagh, F. & A. Hervey, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 108(1): 95-121. 1981 (bigr., port., partial bibl.; complete bibl. on file in archives NY). - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found. Florida 40. 1945. - Rickett, H.W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 83. 1955. - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. Amer. ed. 2: 60, 63. 1981. - Rogerson, C.T., Mycologia index 1032-1033. 1968 (list of pub. in Mycologia). - Smiley, N., Fairchild Trop. Gard. Bull. 33(4): 28-31. 1978 (portr., biogr. sketch). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 299, 392. 1937, 4: 81, 165, 184, 233, 285, 287. 1938, 5: 233, 239, 307, 414, 415. 1939, 6: 163, 165, 329, 429. 1941, 7: 38, 138, 357. 1943. #### Composite works *Botany*: a textbook for college and university students, New York 1929, with H.W. Rickett, q.v. #### Eponymy W.J. Robbins Plant Science Building, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida (R. was president of the Board of Trustees for the garden 1962-1969).