Authors of Names of Bryophytes and the Present Location of Their ...

Authors of Names of Bryophytes and the Present
Location of Their Herbaria1
GENEVA SAYRE2
Abstract. A list is given of all known authors of names, combinations and
changes in status of names of Hepaticae and Musci, with their dates and the
present location of their original herbaria and of a considerable number of
duplicate specimens.
A date in parentheses following an author's name, given when the date of birth or
death has not been ascertained, is the date of a major publication. Institutional her-
barium abbreviations are those of the sixth edition of Index Herbariorum, 1974. PRIV
means that the original herbarium is still in possession of the author. Abbreviations in
boldface indicate the original herbarium, if this is known; it is followed by others in the
presumed order of quantity of specimens. When the name of a person is added to the
herbarium abbreviation it usually indicates that the person so designated actually
described the specimens, or that he is known to have acquired all or part of the original
herbarium. The list of exsiccatae locations is incomplete; it merely suggests a number
of places where a set can be found. The symbol + indicates that the type of a new name
is a fossil. The list includes, in addition to bryological authors, persons in whose
publications the new bryological names were supplied by others; this accounts for the
presence of, for example, Asa Gray and Admiral Parry; when their own herbaria, if any,
do not include bryophytes, the herbaria cited are those of the contributing authors. So
that as many names as possible could be included, no cutoff date was established; thus
the coverage of publications of the recent past is restricted to those immediately avail-
able to us.
The preparation of this list would have been impossible without the generous
cooperation of many people. The primary source of names and dates of muscologists
was the list of authors which W. D. Margadant has prepared for his revision of the five
published volumes of Index Muscorum; Margadant not only kindly supplied me with
his manuscript list but also searched the extensive files of the Biohistorisch Instituut at
Utrecht for information on other bryologists. An up to date source of herbarium loca-
tions has been the data collected by Zennoske Iwatsuki and his committee for the
Bryological Herbaria project; Iwatsuki and Dale Vitt made available to me copies of
the returned questionnaires as they were received. Iwatsuki has also been my chief
source of information on Japanese bryologists. Marshall Crosby sent names of authors
who will be cited in his supplement to Index Muscorum and useful references con-
1 The Society is offering a limited number of reprints of this list for sale for $2.00, postpaid.
Orders with remittance should be sent to Marshall R. Crosby, Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345
Tower Grove Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
2 Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, 20 Divinity
Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.