Barbey, William (1842-1914)
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
William
Last name
Barbey
Initials
W.
Life Dates
1842 - 1914
Collecting Dates
1873 - 1880
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
G (main), B, BM, GH, K, L, LE, LY, MPU, P
Countries
North Africa: Egypt, LibyaTropical Africa: EritreaEurope: Italy, Portugal, Spain, SwitzerlandWestern Asia: Lebanon, Yemen
Associate(s)
Autran, Eugène John Benjamin (1855-1912) (co-collector)
Barbey-Boissier, C. (1847-1918) (wife)
Barbey-Boissier, William (1842-1914) (later)
Boissier, Pierre Edmond (1810-1885) (co-collector, father-in-law)
Burnat, Émile (1828-1920) (co-collector)
Favrat, Louis (1827-1893) (co-collector)
Forsyth-Major, Charles Immanuel (1843-1923) (co-author)
Leresche, Louis François Jules Rodolphe (1808-1885) (co-collector)
Taubert, Paul Hermann Wilhelm (1862-1897) (purchased collections)
Barbey-Boissier, C. (1847-1918) (wife)
Barbey-Boissier, William (1842-1914) (later)
Boissier, Pierre Edmond (1810-1885) (co-collector, father-in-law)
Burnat, Émile (1828-1920) (co-collector)
Favrat, Louis (1827-1893) (co-collector)
Forsyth-Major, Charles Immanuel (1843-1923) (co-author)
Leresche, Louis François Jules Rodolphe (1808-1885) (co-collector)
Taubert, Paul Hermann Wilhelm (1862-1897) (purchased collections)
Biography
Swiss philanthropist and botanist who married the daughter of P.E. Boissier, later changing his surname to Barbey-Boissier following a contemporary Swiss tradition for adding a wife's surname on marriage. He was given the herbarium of P.E. Boissier and later gave both this herbarium and his own to G. The genera Barbeya Schweinf. and Barbeyella Meyl. were named in his honour. Material at BM from Barbey's herbarium mainly comprises duplicate specimens of P.H.W. Taubert from Cyrenaica.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 47; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 5; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 54, 83; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 191; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 132; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): 118;
