George Vasey
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19th century American botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Vasey was an English-born American botanist who collected a lot in Illinois before integrating the United States Department of Agriculture , where he became Chief Botanist and curator of the greatly expanded National Herbarium.
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Published Works
- The philosophy of laughter and smiling (11)
- List of plants collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Lower California and western Mexico in 1890 (9)
- Monograph of the grasses of the United States and British America (8)
- The agricultural grasses of the United States (7)
- Special Uses and Properties of Some Mexican Grasses (1887) (5)
- List of plants collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Lower California in 1889 (3)
- New Species of Grasses (1884) (3)
- The philosophy of laughter and smiling (2nd ed.). (3)
- New Grasses (1891) (3)
- Some New Grasses (1881) (3)
- Descriptions of new or noteworthy grasses from the United State (3)
- Plants from southern California (2)
- Descriptions of new grasses from Mexico (2)
- On Three Hybrid Oaks near Washington, D. C. (1883) (2)
- Synopsis of the Genus Paspalum (1886) (1)
- Grasses of the Pacific slope, including Alaska and the adjacent islands : plates and descriptions of the Grasses of California, Oregon, Washington, and the North-Western Coast, Including Alaska (1)
- Characteristic Vegetation of the North American Desert (1888) (1)
- New Western Grasses (1888) (1)
- The Translation of Hackel's "True Grasses." (1890) (1)
- Fasciation in Sophora secundiflora (1887) (1)
- A record of some of the work of the division, including extracts from correspondence and other communications / (1)
- New American Grasses (1886) (1)
- Vasey, George Nov. 14, 1888 (1888) (0)
- Milton versus Shakspeare on the subject of laughter. (0)
- First—On the pecuniary expense of laughter. Second—On those who are enriched by it. Third—On its imagined advantages and benefits. (0)
- Notes on some Pacific coast grasses (0)
- List of plants from Lower California sent to the Smithsonian Institution by Lieut. Charles F. Pond, U. S. Navy (0)
- A Neglected Spartina (1891) (0)
- A catalogue of the forest trees of the United States which usually attain a height of sixteen feet or more, with notes and brief descriptions of the more important species, illustrating the collection (0)
- On the injurious effects of nursery rhymes and juvenile literature in stultifying the minds of children and youths by furnishing them with extravagant lies and egregious nonsense to excite their wonder and induce them to laugh. (0)
- On the moral and intellectual characteristics of those who are addicted to laughing. (0)
- Are laughter and joking, badinage and fun, consistent with dignity of character? Or are they conducive to the maintenance of a beneficial political or social influence? (0)
- Redfieldia, a New Genus of Grasses (1887) (0)
- On the relation of laughter to wit. (0)
- A brief comparison between gravity and levity—the grave and the gay—Have we any rule to direct us in the exercise of laughter? (0)
- New or Rare Grasses (0)
- Calamagrostis Howellii, N. Sp. (1881) (0)
- On the logical relation of the action of laughter to the ideas, objects, or actions which excite laughter. (0)
- Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XVI..Plants collected in 1889 at Socorro and Clarion Islands, Pacific Ocean (0)
- Record Unit 7087 George Vasey Papers, 1889-1893 (0)
- The character of laughers compared with the character of those who are thoughtful and serious. (0)
- Trichostema parishi, Vasey (1881) (0)
- Vasey, George Dec. 3, 1886 (1886) (0)
- Notes on Festuca Thurberi (1876) (0)
- Vasey, George May 4, 1886 (1886) (0)
- A venial digression touching the false and imperfect methods now in vogue of teaching and training the young. (0)
- Notes on Melica and Poa (1890) (0)
- Some New Grasses (1882) (0)
- To the Members of the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S (1888) (0)
- Two New Species of Grasses (1883) (0)
- A comparison between those sayings and doings which are laughed at and those which are not laughed at. (0)
- On the intellectual and moral status of the ordinary incentives to laughter. (0)
- National Herbarium at Washington (1886) (0)
- Flora Columbiana, or, Catalogue of plants growing without cultivation, collected by members of the Potomac-Side Naturalists' Club, in the District of Columbia and its immediate vicinity. (0)
- Additions to and Corrections of the "Catalogue of Forest Trees of the United States" (1878) (0)
- Desiderata of the herbarium for North America, north of Mexico : (0)
- On the broad line of demarcation which separates laughter from smiling. (0)
- On the degrading and vicious consequences of the habit of laughing. (0)
- New Species of Mexican Grasses (1886) (0)
- On the criterion by which to distinguish natural or instinctive actions and habits from those which are acquired. (0)
- Descriptive of the physical effects of laughter on the organs of respiration. (0)
- Notes and News (1893) (0)
- Classification of laughs and smiles. (0)
- The National Herbarium (1889) (0)
- Notes on Some Rare Grasses (1888) (0)
- A New Grass (1890) (0)
- Vasey, George July 10, 1890 [to S. Watson] (1890) (0)
- A New Species of Grass (1884) (0)
- George Vasey letters to Asa Gray (0)
- First—On the organs involved in the action of laughter. Second—On the means by which the habit of laughing is induced. Third—On the state of feeling to which it gives rise. (0)
- Is it a confirmed fact (as is universally asserted) that laughter is an original instinct? In other words, is man really a laughing animal? (0)
- The agricultural grasses of the United States . Also the chemical composition of American grasses (0)
- Rules for the Botanical Exchange Club (1888) (0)
- Further observations on the means employed to produce what is termed laughter in infants, and on the injurious effects which result therefrom. (0)
- A Hybrid Grass (1884) (0)
- Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. VI. List of the plants collected in Alaska in 1888 (0)
- A New Grass: Melica? Multinervosa (1891) (0)
- The verdict of Shakspeare on the moral character of laughter. (0)
- Carices in Washington, D. C. (1876) (0)
- Further illustrations of the distinction between a laugh and a smile. (0)
- Dr. Edward Palmer (1887) (0)
- Synopsis of the Genus Panicum Linn (1888) (0)
- New Grasses (1886) (0)
- Contributions to the natural history of the Commander Islands. No. 8..Description of Alopecurus stejnegeri, a new species of grass from the Commander Islands (0)
- Notes on Eriochloa (1884) (0)
- Notes on Eatonia (1886) (0)
- Schedule of North American Species of Paspalum (1884) (0)
- First division comprising mechanics of fluids, and Hydraulic architecture, descriptive and constructive : an original work, conducted by professional, scientific, and practical men (0)
- Alopecurus Saccatus, N. Sp. (1881) (0)
- A catalogue of the forest trees of the United States which usually attain a height of sixteen feet or more, with notes and brief descriptions of the more important species, illustrating the collection Prepared by Geo. Vasey, M. D. (0)
- The Exchange Club (1888) (0)
- Walter Deane correspondence. (0)
- On the distinction between voluntary actions and those that are involuntary, with a reference to the organs which are employed to produce them. (0)
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