Percival, John (1863-1949)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
John
Last name
Percival
Initials
J.
Life Dates
1863 - 1949
Collecting Dates
1926 - 1932
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
RNG (main), BIRA, BM, K, LISE, MANCH, NMW, RU, WAR (currently WARMS)
Countries
North Africa: AlgeriaWestern Asia: Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Israel, TurkeyEurope: France, Portugal, United KingdomNorth Asia: Kazakhstan
Biography
John Percival (1863-1949) was Professor of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading from 1907 to 1932. He played a key role in the development of agricultural botany as a discipline and authored the key reference work, Agricultural Botany, theoretical and practical (1921). He also published an important monograph on wheat in 1921.

Percival made extensive botanical collections, which are chiefly deposited in the Reading herbarium (RNG). As well as plants from his native Yorkshire, the Percival herbarium holds samples from as far afield as Kazakhstan and Algeria.

Sources:
A.H. Bunting, 2001, "John Percival - the man: his life and times", in P.D.S. Galigari & P.E. Brandham (eds), Wheat Taxonomy - the Legacy of John Percival, The Linnean Special Issue 3: 9-26
L.A. Morrison, 2001, "The Percival Herbarium and wheat taxonomy: yesterday, today, and tomorrow", Ibid: 65-80
P.D.S. Galigari and P.E. Brandham, 2004, Herbarium RNG Collector-Database, Percival, John:
http://www.herbarium.reading.ac.uk/modules.php?name=Collectors&rop=show_collector&id=43.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 487; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 219; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 666;
Percival, John (1863-1949)
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