> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 850](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355937) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/24391-1) LSID 24391-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522441) QID Q21522441 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Orton, William Allen (1877-1930), American plant pathologist; M. Sc. Univ. Vermont 1898; from 1899-1930 with USDA, from 1907-1924 pathologist in charge of the office of cotton, truck and forage crop disease investigations; from 1924-1930 also scientific director of the Tropical plant research Foundation. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Orton* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Orton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]] and [[Collection CUP|CUP]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 34 (b. 28 Feb 1877, d. 7 Jan 1920); IH 2: (in press); Lenley p. 318; Rehder 5: 637; Tucker 1: 531. - Anon., Bot. Jahrb. 27, Beibl. 64: 21. 1900 (asst. dir. Veg. Physiol., USDA); The Official Record, Washington, D. C. 16 Jan 1930 (obit., portr., d. 7 Jan 1930); Phytopathology 21: 575. 1931; Science ser. 2. 71: 61. 1930. - Ewan, J. et al., Short. hist. bot. U.S. 87, 170. 1969 (err. d. 1920). - Gilbert, W. W., Science ser. 2. 71: 89-91. 1930 (b. 28 Feb 1877, d. 7 Jan 1930; obit.). - Jones, L. R., Phytopathology 21: 1-11. 1931 (obit., portr., bibl.). - McKeen Cattel, J., ed., Amer. men. Sci. ed. 2. 353. 1906. - Murrill, W. A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 36. 1945. - Rodgers, A. D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 500 \[index\]. 1949. - Russel, W., Rev. bot. appl. Agric. trop. 11: 396. 1931 (n.v.). - Stevenson, J. A., Taxon 4: 183. 1955 (fungi BPI). ### Publications ##### n.7120. A partial list of the parasitic fungi of Vermont **Title** *A partial list of the parasitic fungi of Vermont*... from the Eleventh Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 1897-1898. Reprinted by the Botanical Department of the University of Vermont. September, 1898. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1898, p. \[1\]-21. *Copy*: US. – Reprinted with independent pagination from Rep. Vermont Exp. Station 2: 202-219. 1898 which may have come out before the reprint.