| 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] |
| ASA Botanist ID | 127990 botanist |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/2a017849-a5cb-490a-8bac-c44648cc967a |
| Standard/Label Name | E. A. Mearns |
| Full Name | Mearns, Edgar Alexander |
| Geography Collector | Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines, United States of America |
| Specialty Collector | Bryophytes |
| Specialty Collector | Phanerogams |
| Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum - Collectors M |
| Member of teams/groups | |
| Holdings | Search for specimens collected by E. A. Mearns |
| Collections in | [no date] (3), 1882 (1), 1888 (3), 1889 (1), 1890 (6), 1891 (29), 1892 (31), 1893 (31), 1894 (17), 1895 (17), 1896 (5), 1900 (14), 1901 (80), 1902 (78), 1904 (2), 1906 (1), 1907 (25), 1909 (66), 1910 (18), 1911 (1) |
| Collector Teams: | E. A. Mearns & W. I. Hutchinson E. A. Mearns & L. Schoenfeldt |