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Name	Shafer, John Adolph
Date of birth	1863
Date of death	1918
Remarks	Example of Name Published: Cynoxylon nuttallii Shafer in Britton & Shafer -- N. Amer. Trees 746, fig. 684. 1908; Athyrium trichomanes Shafer, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 1: 124. 1901. [author note: Herbarium and types: NY (25,000), CM (early collections, ca. 2,500); additional material at A, AMES, B (mostly destroyed), BM, C, DPU, F, GH, HABE, HAC, L, MICH, MO, NY, P, PH, U, US] [collector note: col. also in Montserrat; Original collections: CM, NY]
URL	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adolph_Shafer
ASA Botanist ID	101219 botanist
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/861679ad-9afa-4505-a556-c630c3c4d3d4
Variant name	John Adolph Shafer
Variant name	Schafer, John Adolf
Variant name	Shafer, John Adolf
Author name	Shafer
B & P Author Abbrev.	Shafer
Standard/Label Name	J. A. Shafer
Full Name	Shafer, John Adolph
Geography Author	United States of America
Geography Collector	Argentina, Cuba, United States of America
Specialty Author	Pteridophytes
Specialty Author	Spermatophytes
Specialty Collector	Phanerogams
Specialty Collector	Pteridophytes
Citation as Author	Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Citation as Author	Taxonomic Literature. Second Edition. Utrecht
Citation as Collector	Index Herbariorum - Collectors S
Member of teams/groups
Author in	N. Amer. Trees
Holdings	Search for specimens collected by J. A. Shafer
Collections in	[no date] (12), 1883 (4), 1884 (13), 1885 (3), 1886 (1), 1888 (3), 1892 (1), 1900 (6), 1901 (27), 1902 (55), 1903 (7), 1906 (1), 1907 (16), 1908 (1), 1909 (86), 1910 (109), 1911 (197), 1912 (74), 1914 (54), 1916 (22), 1917 (66), 1929 (1), 1940 (1), 1941 (8), 1942 (7), 1957 (1)
Collector Teams:	E. G. Britton, M. A. Howe & J. A. Shafer W. W. Ashe & J. A. Shafer J. F. Cowell & J. A. Shafer C. C. Mellor & J. A. Shafer J. A. Shafer & Frère J. S. S. Leon Britton & Shafer N. L. Britton & J. A. Shafer N. L. Britton, J. F. Cowell & J. A. Shafer N. L. Britton, J. F. Cowell & J. A. Shafer N. L. Britton, E. G. Britton & J. A. Shafer
Author Teams:	Britton & Shafer