> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 68](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333207) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8956-1) LSID 8956-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018139) QID Q8018139 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Saunders, William of Canada (1836-1914), English-born botanist and agricultural scientist; to Canada 1848; active as industrial pharmacist, entomologist and plant breeder; owner of a private experimental farm from 1868; professor of materia medica Western Univ., Ontario 1882-1886; director Experimental Farms Canada, 1886-1911; originated the work which led to the development by his son, Charles Edward, of the Marquis wheat; LL.D. Queen's (Can.) 1896, id. Toronto 1903. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Saunders, Can.* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Saunders bis*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 215 (b. 16 Jun 1836, d. 13 Sep 1914); BL 1: 143, 317; BM 8: 1141; CSP 5: 412, 12: 650, 651, 18: 459; DNB 17: 820-821; Desmond p. 544; LS 38802-38803; Rehder 5: 766; Tucker 1: 624-625. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. ed. 1: 279-280. 1906; Canad. Entomologist 27(8): 197. 1895 (portr., tribute); Encycl. canad. 237. 1972; Entom. News 25(10): 480. 1914 (d.); J. Amer. Pharm. Ass. 3(12): 1623-1624. 1914 (d., portr.); Proc. Trans. R. Soc. Canada ser. 3. 9: viii-x. 1916 (obit.); Who's who London 1909-1915; Who was who 1897-1915: 629. 1935. - Bethune, C.J.S., Canad. Entomologist 46: 335-336. 1914 (obit., portr.); Ann. Rep. Entom. Soc. Ontario 45: 29, 121-123. 1914 (obit., portr.); Ann. Entom. Soc. America 8: 99. 1915 (obit. not., portr.). - Bethune, C.J.S., *in* L.H. Bailey, Standard Cycl. Hort. 2: 1595. 1939. - Cattell, J.M., ed., Amer. men sci. ed. I. 279-280. 1906, ed. 2. 409-410. 1910. - Goding, F.W., Ann. Rep. Entom. Soc. Ontario 25: 1 (portr.), 120-121. 1894. - Howard, L.O., Smiths, misc. Coll. 84: 105, 110, 184. 1930. - Mallis, A., American entomologists 107-110. 1971 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Morgan, H.J., The Canadian men and women of the time 908-909. 1898, ed. 2. 995. 1912. - Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. hist. 164-165. 1937. - Pomeroy, E.M., William Saunders and his five sons. The story of the Marquis wheat family. Toronto 1956, 192 p. (biogr., portr.). - Shutt, F.T., Science ser. 2. 40: 700-703. 1914 (obit.); Agr. Gaz. Canada 1(10): 766-780. 1914 (obit., portr.). - Strecker, H., Butterflies and moths of North America 264-266. 1878 (bibl.). - Wallace, W.S., Dict. canad. biogr. 360. 1926, ed. 2: 594. 1945; Macmillan dict. Canad. biogr. ed. 4. 148-749. 1978. #### Composite works - (1) Editor, *Canadian Entomologist* 6-18, 1874-1886. - (2) Co-founder, Entomological Society of Ontario; charter member Royal Society of Canada. ### Publications ##### n.10.347. Catalogue of the trees and shrubs **Title** Central Experimental Farm, Department of Agriculture. *Catalogue of the trees and shrubs* in the arboretum and botanic garden at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada... Ottawa (Government Printing Bureau) 1899. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. trees shrubs*. **Notes** *Co-author*: William Tyrrell Macoun (1869-1933). *Publ*.: Jun 1899 (p. \[3\]: 20 Jun 1899), frontisp., \[1\]-88. *Copy*: USDA. – Issued as Bull. no. 2, ser. 2. Jun 1899, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. ##### n.10.348. Trees and shrubs **Title** Department of Agriculture Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. *Trees and shrubs* tested in *Manitoba* and the North-West Territories... Ottawa (Published by direction of... Minister of Agriculture) 1904. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Trees shrubs Manitoba*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 29 Jun 1904 (p. \[3\]: 29 Jun 1904), p. \[1\]-48, *pl. 1-6. Copy*: MO. – Issued as Bull. 47, Central Exp. Farm, Ottawa. *Ed. 2*: Nov 1910, p. \[1\]-48, *pl. 1-6. Copy*: MO. – Id.