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VosxESENSKY, Ilya Gavriloch, 1816-1871 



Brewer, 555, as "Wosnessensky"; Eastwood, 338; Essig. 777-789 (poitr.); Hulten. 

 300; cf. J. Grinnell in Univ. Calif. Publ. ZooL, 38:321, 1932. 



Vries, Hugo de, 1848-1935 



A. D. Rogers, III, Liberty Hyde Bailey, jyassim, 1949; E. Nordenskiold, Hist. Biol. (A. 

 Knopf, ed.), 587-588, 1928, and other general histories of science; portr. in Chron. Bot.. 

 9(5-6), pi. 22, 1946, at Burbank's garden: autobiog. notes in Naar Californie, Amster- 

 dam, 1905, and transl. in Pop. Sci. Mo., 67:329-347, 1905. 



Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 



Britten, 314; Carpenter, 109; Dean, 2:599-600; DNB. 20th Cent. Suppl. 546; Eican, 

 330; Musgrave, 337; Urban Fl. Bras., 130-131; Van Steenis. 555-557; L. O. Howard, 

 Fighting the Insects, 303-305, 1933; W. S(tone) in Auk, 31:138-141, 1914; D. S. Jordan, 

 Days of a Man, 1:303, 1922; T. D. A. Cockerell in Pop. Sci. Mo., 62:517-518, 1903. 



Walther, Eric 



V. Reiter, Jr., in Leafl. West. Bot., 7:82-83, 1953. 



Wei-.ber, David Gould, 1809-(?) 



J. Ewan in A. S. Hitchcock, Man. Grasses U. S., ed. 2 (U.S.Dept. Agri. Misc. Publ. 

 200), 989, 1951. 



Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946 



Fairchild, 444, et passim, and World Grows round my Door, passim. 1947; H. S. 

 Reed in Madroiio, 8:193-195, 1946, portr. as frontis. to Vol. 8. 



Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1816-1863 



DAB; Howell, 30; Etvan, 335; G. Foreman, A Pathfinder in the Southwest, Norman, 

 Okla., 1941. 



Whitney, Josiah Dwigiit, 1819-1896 



ACAB; Bade, imssim; Brewster. 206-207, 239-240, 272-273, et passim: DAB; Etvan. 

 336; Meisel, 1:239; Palmer, 302; brief acct. of Calif. Geol. Surv. in No. Amer. Rev., 

 121:63-64, 1875. 



WiCKSON, Edward James, 1848-1923 



DAB; Fairchild, 302; W. L. Howard in Chron. Bot., 9:314-316, et passim (portr., 

 pi. 22), 1946. 



Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 



Brewer, 551; DAB; Dall. 71-72, et passim; Eivan. 337; Hughes. 15; Meisel, 1:240 

 and 3:678; Urban Fl. Bras., 1:144-145; Van Rteenis. 575-577; J. D. Hill. Sea Dogs of 

 the Sixties, 88-127 (portr.), 1935; H. H. Bartlett in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 82:601- 

 705, 1940; M. E. Cooley, ibid., 82:707-719, 1940. 



Williams, Francis Xavier, 1882- 



Amsci; Musgrave, 354; portr. in Pacific Discovery, 6(2): 22, 1953. 

 Williamson, Rouert Stockton, 1824-1882 



Hume, 195, et passim; Palmer, 303. 



Wislizenus, Frederick Adolph, 1810-1889 



Brewer, 557; Dall, 180, 258, 265; Ewan, 338; Geiser-two, 283; Meisel. 1:242 and 

 3.680; Sargent, 6:94; Wagner-three, 83; Geo. J. Engelmann in St. Louis Acad. 

 Sci. Trans., 5:464-468, 1892; F. Starr in Pop. Sci. Mo., 52:643-644 (portr.), 1898; P. 

 Spaulding, ibid., 74:244-246 (portr.), 1909; biog. sketch by his son in Mo. Hist. Soc. ed. 

 of W's Journey, 5-13 (portr.), 1912. 



WiSTAR, Isaac Jones, 1827-1905 



NCAB, 12:359 (portr.); see Autobiography, Phila. 1914, reissued in 1937 and again 

 in 1938. 



