A. S. Hitchcock

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A. S. Hitchcock is affiliated with the following schools: Kansas State University, University of Iowa

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According to Wikipedia, Albert Spear Hitchcock was an American botanist and agrostologist. Hitchcock graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College with bachelor's degree in 1884 and M.S. in 1886. From 1892 to 1901 he was a professor of botany at the Kansas State Agricultural College. Hitchcock joined the USDA in 1901 as Assistant Agrostologist under Frank Lamson-Scribner. In 1905 he was put in charge of the grass herbarium and became Systematic Agrostologist. After 1928, he held the title of Principal Biologist in charge of Systematic Agrostology of the Department of Agriculture and kept that title until his death in 1935. In 1912 he became Custodian of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum. Hitchcock remained Custodian without remuneration until his death. His field notebooks are archived in the Smithsonian Institution. He was a professor of botany in the Kansas State Agricultural College and authored over 250 works during his lifetime.

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The grasses of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia (74)
The North American species of Panicum (60)
The grasses of Central America (21)
The Identification of Walter's Grasses (18)
Standard-species of Linnaeus genera of Phanerogamae (1753-1754) (15)
Grasses of British Guiana, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. (13)
Tropical North American species of Panicum (13)
The genera of grasses of the United States : with special reference to the economic species / by A.S. Hitchcock. (12)
Methods of Descriptive Systematic Botany (1926) (11)
A Visit to the West Indies (1891) (10)
The Grasses of Kansas (10)
New species of grasses from Central America (1927) (10)
The North American species of Echinochloa (10)
Types of American grasses (10)
Notes on North American Grasses (1903) (9)
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY GRASSES (1915) (9)
New species and changes in nomenclature of grasses of the United States. (1934) (9)
Synopsis of the South American species of Stipa (9)
TYPE SPECIES OF THE FIRST 100 GENERA OF LINNAEUS' SPECIES PLANTARUM (1923) (8)
The North American species of Stipa (8)
NOMENCLATORIAL TYPE SPECIMENS OF PLANT SPECIES. (1905) (7)
The North American species of Aristida (7)
List of Cryptogams Collected in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman (7)
The Grasses Of Hawaii (7)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GENERIC TYPES OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. (1919) (6)
New species and new names of grasses from Texas (1933) (6)
THE SCOPE AND RELATIONS OF TAXONOMIC BOTANY. (1916) (6)
New grasses from Kashmir (1933) (6)
New species of Aulacolepis and other grasses (1934) (5)
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. (1921) (5)
Notes on the Flora of Iowa (1889) (5)
THE TYPE CONCEPT IN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY (1921) (5)
Note on Buffalo Grass (1895) (5)
New species of grasses from the United States (5)
Papuan grasses collected by L. J. Brass (1936) (4)
Revisions of North American grasses (4)
STABLE NOMENCLATURE PRACTICALLY UNATTAINABLE. (1909) (4)
Revisions of North American grasses: The North American species of Isachne (4)
A catalogue of the anthophyta and pteridophyta of Ames, Iowa ([Reprod.]) / by A. S. Hitchock (4)
The North American species of Chaetochloa (4)
Additions to the Grasses of Cuba (1911) (3)
GENERIC TYPES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES (1918) (3)
A manual of farm grasses (3)
THE NEED FOR TRAINING TAXONOMIC BOTANISTS. (1928) (2)
The validity of the grass genus Digitaria (2)
Dissanthelium, an American genus of grasses (2)
The grasses of Hawaii, by A. S. Hitchcock. (2)
Fifteen new species of grasses, six from Africa, nine from China (2)
Olai Swartz Acad. Imp. nat. cur. rel. sodalis Synopsis filicum : earum genera et species systematice complectens : adjectis lycopodineis, et descriptionibus novarum et rariorum specierum : cum tabulis aeneis quinque. (2)
REMARKS ON THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE. (1924) (2)
A Botanical Trip to the Hawaiian Islands. II (1917) (2)
The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 24. New species of grasses from the Galapagos and the Revillagigedo Islands (1935) (2)
A key to the genera of Manhattan plants, based on fruit characters. (2)
Report on a collection of plants made by C. H. Thompson in southwestern Kansas in 1893 (2)
Two new grasses from South America (2)
Flora of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone (1927) (2)
History of the Mexican grass, Ixophorus unisetus (2)
Additions to the Iowa Flora (1889) (2)
The North American species of Lasiacis (2)
A Botanical Trip to Mexico. I (1919) (2)
FLORA OF BARRO COLORADO ISLAND, CANAL ZONE. (1927) (2)
List of Plants in My Florida Herbarium. Part II (1)
Grasses of the West Indies. By A. S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase. (1)
RECENT WORK IN SYSTEMATIC AGROSTOLOGY. (1912) (1)
The North American species of Oplismenus (1)
Note on Trisetum spicatum (1)
AN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. (1926) (1)
Pasture, meadow, and forage crops in Nebraska (1)
Notes on North American Grasses. VI (1906) (1)
New species of grasses from South America (1)
A Brief Outline of Ecology (1)
Sixth report on Kansas weeds - distribution and other notes. (1)
A New Species of Andropogon (1912) (1)
A manual of farm grasses, by A. S. Hitchcock. (1)
CONSERVATION OF THE NAMES OF GRASS GENERA (1927) (1)
A text-book of grasses with especial reference to the economic species of the United States, by A.S. Hitchcock ... (1)
The Distribution of the Genus Vitis in Kansas (1)
Brief Notices (1926) (0)
Plant lists : Ecuador, (0)
GENERA AND SUPERGENERA. (1920) (0)
Determinations of Killip-Smith Colombian Collection [USNM] (0)
Hitchcock, British Guiana Sedges (0)
Abnormal Anemone and Convolvulus (1888) (0)
Hitchcock, British Guiana (0)
Notes on North American Grasses. IV (1904) (0)
THE BOTANICAL LIBRARY OF A STATION BOTANIST. (1892) (0)
The Type Species of Danthonia (1914) (0)
Note on some foreign grasses (0)
Note on Corn Smut (1899) (0)
Plants of British Honduras (0)
A NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE. (1903) (0)
Taxonomy as a Fundamental Factor in Botanical Research (1934) (0)
Agrostis genus novis speciebus Americae septentrionalis auctum (0)
The Relations of the Composite Flora of Kansas (0)
Current South American Collections (0)
Hitchcock's Plants of British Guiana, Orchidaceae (0)
Walter Deane correspondence. (0)
Plants of Colombia - 1927 (0)
VARIATION IN SPORES OF CORN SMUT. (1893) (0)
Gray Herbarium miscellaneous plant lists (0)
Morphology of the Grass Flower (1910) (0)
Two new grassesc one from Tennesseec one from Argentina (1934) (0)
Remarks on Mr. Sprague's Suggestion (1923) (0)
British Grasses (1918) (0)
Determinations Made at the Gray Herbarium by I. M. Johnston (0)
The North American species of Echinochloa. Contr. U.S (0)
A peculiar species of Lasiacis (0)
Two new species of Setaria from Western Australia (0)
Old and new plant lore; a symposium, by Agnes Chase, A.S. Hitchcock, Earl S. Johnston, J.H. Kempton, Ellsworth P. Killip, Daniel T. MacDougal, Albert Mann, William R. Maxon ... (1931) (0)
Additions to "The Grasses of Kansas" (0)
Another Hybrid Oak (1893) (0)
Rape as a forage crop (0)
Hitchcock's British Guiana Plants (0)
Notes on North American Grasses (1903) (0)
Notes on North American Grasses. V. Some Trinius Panicum Types (1906) (0)
Genera and Supergenera (1920) (0)
REMARKS ON MR. SPRAGUE'S SUGGESTION. (1923) (0)
HOW THE TAXONOMISTS MAY UTILIZE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. (1927) (0)
Catalogue of the grasses of Cuba. By A. S. Hitchcock. (0)
Some Depauperate Grasses (1892) (0)
The Ornamental Trees of Hawaii (1918) (0)
Three new grasses from French Sudan (0)
Variation in Spores of Corn Smut (1893) (0)
Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman, by A.S. Hitchcock ... Issued March 9, 1893. (0)
A BASIS FOR AGREEMENT ON NOMENCLATURE AT THE ITHACA CONGRESS (1926) (0)
Plant lists : British Guiana, (0)
List of Plants in My Florida Herbarium (0)
Journal : Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, 1923 (0)
A Hybrid Baptisia (1894) (0)
Notes on North American Grasses. III (1904) (0)
Recent Work in Systematic Agrostology (1912) (0)
Plant lists : British Guiana and Ecuador, (0)

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