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Name	Mearns, Edgar Alexander
Date of birth	1856
Date of death	1916
Remarks	[collector note: Herbarium: US (main part of herbarium). Africa: BOL, BR (6 bryo.), GH, US (3094, orig., Smithsonian African Exped.). East Africa; A, F (col. 1909, 132). Tropical Africa: (T. Roosevelt Exped.): BM (r. 1916). Ethiopia (col. 1911-1912): C. Kenya (1909): MO, US. Mexico: A (Baja California). L (col. 1892), US. Philippines (1906-1907, with W. I. Hutchinson): B, GH, MO, NY (musci), PNH (orig.), US (586). United States (probably SW): A, DS, MO, NY, US (5276, from various states, col. ± 1892-1894). New York (col. 1896): C, US. Rhode Island: GH, US. Wyoming: MIN. Yellowstone National Park (1902): C, L, US. Collections also at K, P] [author note: Herbarium and types: US; additional specimens at A, BM, BOL, BR, C, DS, F, GH, K, L, MIN, MO, NY, P, PNH]
ASA Botanist ID	127990 botanist
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/2a017849-a5cb-490a-8bac-c44648cc967a
Variant name	Edgar Alexander Mearns
Variant name	Mearns, E. A.
Standard/Label Name	E. A. Mearns
Full Name	Mearns, Edgar Alexander
Geography Collector	Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, United States of America
Specialty Author	Spermatophytes
Specialty Collector	Bryophytes
Specialty Collector	Phanerogams
Citation as Collector	Index Herbariorum - Collectors M
Citation as Author	Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
Member of teams/groups
Holdings	Search for specimens collected by E. A. Mearns
Collections in	[no date] (3), 1882 (1), 1888 (3), 1889 (2), 1890 (6), 1891 (30), 1892 (32), 1893 (32), 1894 (28), 1895 (18), 1896 (5), 1899 (1), 1900 (16), 1901 (86), 1902 (78), 1904 (2), 1906 (1), 1907 (29), 1909 (123), 1910 (30), 1911 (1)
Collector Teams:	E. A. Mearns & W. I. Hutchinson E. A. Mearns & L. Schoenfeldt