A. S. Hitchcock

Albert Spear Hitchcock (September 4, 1865 – December 16, 1935) was an American botanist and agrostologist.

In 1912 he became Custodian of Grasses, Division of Plants, United States National Museum.

[2] He was a professor of botany in the Kansas State Agricultural College and authored over 250 works during his lifetime.

The Hitchcock-Chase Collection consists of 2,707 drawings (mostly ink, but some pencil) of grasses, representing hundreds of genera, that were assembled by the Smithsonian Institution agrostologists Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865–1935) and Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963).

Hitchcock edited and distributed two exsiccatae, namely Plants of Kansas and American grasses.