Author:John Merle Coulter

John Merle Coulter
(1851–1928)

John Merle Coulter

Work

Editorial Positions

• Editor, Botanical Gazette, from its foundation, 1875-.
• Botanical Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy, 1915-.
• Botanical Editor, New International Encyclopedia, 1913-.
• Joint Editor of Heredity and Eugenics. Chicago: University Press, 1912.
• On Editorial Committee of the "University of Chicago Science Series," 1914-.

Book Publications

• Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with Thomas Porter and Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden), 1874. (external scan)
• Handbook of plant dissection (1886), with Joseph Charles Arthur and Charles Reid Barnes (external scan)
• Revision of North American Umbelliferae. With Joseph Nelson Rose, 1862-1928, (1888) (external scan)
• Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany, 1888, revised, 1909. (external scan)
• Botany of western Texas. A manual of the phanerograms and pteriodophytes of western Texas, 1891. (external scan)
• Manual of Texan Botany, 1892-1893.
• Plant Relations, 1899, third revision, 1910. (external scan)
• Plant Structures, 1899, second edition, 1904. (external scan)
• An analytical key to some of the common, wild and cultivated species of flowering plants, 1900 (external scan)
• Morphology of Spermatophytes, 1901. (external scan)
• Plant Studies, 1900, second revision 1904. (external scan)
• Morphology of Angiosperms, (with C. J. Chamberlain), 1903.
• A Textbook of Botany, 1906. (external scan)
• Practical nature study and elementary agriculture; a manual for the use of teachers and normal students, 1909. (external scan)
• New manual of botany of the Central Rocky Mountains, 1909 (external scan)
• A Text-Book of Botany for Colleges and Universities, two volumes, 1910-1911. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Morphology of Gymnosperms (with C. J. Chamberlain), 1910. (external scan)
• Practical science, (short work) 1913 (external scan)
• Plants in General, 1913.
• Plants in Cultivation, 1913.
• Elementary Studies in Botany, 1913 (external scan)
• Fundamentals of Plant-Breeding, 1914. (external scan)
• The Evolution of Sex in Plants, 1914. (external scan)
• Evolution, Heredity, and Eugenics. "School Science Series," No. 5, 1916. (external scan)
• Plant genetics, 1918 (external scan)
• Nature and Development of Plants, 1918 (external scan)

Journal articles

• "Pollen-spores of Tradescantia Virginica" (with J. N. Rose), Botanical Gazette, Vol. 11 (1886).
• "A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora", Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium, Vol. III—No. 2, Issued June 10, 1894.
• "The Embryogeny of Zamia" (with C. J. Chamberlain), Botanical Gazette, Vol. 35 (1903).
• "Regeneration of Zamia" (with C. J. Chamberlain), Botanical Gazette, Vol. 38 (1904).
• "Botany as a Factor in Education", School Review, Vol. 12 (1904).
• "The Contribution of Germany to Higher Education," University Record, Vol. 13 (1904).
• "Development of Morphological Conceptions," Science, Vol. 20 (1904).
• "The Influence of a Teacher's Research Work upon His Teaching of Biology in Secondary Schools," Science and Mathematics, Vol. 5 (1905).
• "Gametophytes and Embryo of Torreya" (with W. J. G. Land), Botanical Gazette, Vol. 39 (1905).
• "Principles of Nature Study," Nature-Study Review, Vol. 1 (1905).
• "Public Interest in Research," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 67 (1905).
• "Charles Darwin," Chautauquan, Vol. 45 (1906).
• "The Scientific Spirit," Educational Bi-Monthly, Vol. 1 (1907).

Articles for The New International Encyclopædia

• "Color, in Plants," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Fern," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) (With Gilbert Van Ingen.)
• "Laboratory," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) (In part.)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "Public Interest in Research" in Popular Science Monthly, 67 (August 1905)
• "The History of Gymnosperms" in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (February 1912)

Articles for The New Student's Reference Work

• "Æcidiomycetes," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Algæ," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Carnivorous Plants," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Cell," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Ecology," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Embryo," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Hydrophyes," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Morphology," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Musci," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Pollination," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Root," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Works about Coulter

• "Coulter, John Merle," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)