> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 161](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066501) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11516-1) LSID 11516-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21062305) QID Q21062305 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Weir, James Robert (1882-1943), American botanist; studied at Purdue, Freiburg, Indiana, Harvard and München; Dr. phil. München 1911; assistant forest expert U.S. Forest Service 1905-1907; director science laboratories, Culver Mil. Acad. 1907-1909; forest pathologist U.S.D.A. 1911-1921; pathologist ib. 1921-1927; Rubber Research Institute, Malaya 1927-1929; with Goodyear Rubber Plantation Co. 1929-1933; agriculturist Ford Motor Co., Dearborn and Companhïa Ford Industr. do Brazil from 1933. **Abbreviated name**: *Weir* \[standard form in IPNI: *Weir*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BPI|BPI]] (40.000). – Other material in [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection IACM|IACM]], [[Collection IPA|IPA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PREM|PREM]], [[Collection PUR|PUR]]. – *Field notes* at [[Collection US|US]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (Barnhart corr.). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 473 (b. 31 Mai 1882); Biol.-Dokum. 19: 9861; Bossert p. 430 (d. 1 Jun 1943); Hirsch p. 319; Kelly p. 239; LS suppl. 29594-29665 (bibl.); NW p. 61; Stevenson p. 1262; Tucker 3: 329. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 3-6, 1921-1938; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 488-490. 1969 (bibl.). - Stevenson, J.A., Phytoptahology 36(7): 487-492. 1946 (obit., portr., bibl., b. 31 Mai 1881 sic, d. 1 Jun 1943; \[we accept 1882 as the year of birth in agreement with the date given by Weir himself in his thesis\]). - Weir, J.R., Lebenslauf, *in* Unters. Coprinus, Diss. 1911 (p. \[67\]: b. 31 Mai 1882\]. ### Publications ##### n.17.051. Untersuchungen über die Gattung Coprinus **Title** *Untersuchungen über die Gattung Coprinus*. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Hohen philosophischen Fakultät (Sektion II) der Königl. Bayer. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München... Jena (Verlag von Gustav Fischer) 1911. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Unters. Coprinus*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 5 Oct 1911 (in journal), p. \[1\]-60, \[61, vita; 62\]. *Copy*: NSUB. – Reprinted or preprinted from Flora 103(3): 263-320. 1911. ##### n.17.052. Walrothiella arceuthobii **Title** *Walrothiella arceuthobii*... Reprint from Journal of agricultural Research... 1915. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Jul 1915, cover-t.p., p. 369-378, *pl. 55-56* with text. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, M. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. agric. Res. 4(4): 369-378, *pl. 55-56.* 1915. ##### n.17.053. Hypoderma deformans **Title** *Hypoderma deformans*, an undescribed needle fungus of the western yellow pine... Reprinted from Journal of agricultural Research... 1916. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Mai 1916, cover-t.p., p. 277-288. *pl. 32. Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. agric. Res. 6(8): 277-288, *pl. 32.* 1916.