Purchas, William Henry (1823-1903)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
William Henry
Last name
Purchas
Initials
W.H.
Life Dates
1823 - 1903
Collecting Dates
1845 - 1889
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), BRISTM (main), ABD, CGE, CGE-B, DBY, K, LIV, MANCH, NA, NMW, OXF, WAR (currently WARMS), WBCH
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Babington, Charles Cardale (1808-1895) (co-collector)
Ley, Augustin (1842-1911) (co-collector)
Lingwood, Robert Maulkin (c. 1813-1887) (co-collector)
Biography
English Reverend at Ticknall in Derbyshire (1857-1865), Lydney in Gloucestershire (1865-1870) and Alstonfield (1870-1903). He studied critical genera including Hieracium, Rosa and Rubus and Rubus purchasianus W.M. Rogers was named after him. His herbarium was given to H.J. Riddelsdell (1866-1941) who donated it to BRISTM in 1913, but it was destroyed during bombing the the second World War. Another British herbarium, created jointly with Rev. A. Ley, was donated to BM in 1905.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 512; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 54; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 718; Nelson, E.C., Watsonia 24 (2003): 497; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 718;
Purchas, William Henry (1823-1903)
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