Organisation(s)
CGE (main), OXF (main), BCW, BM, DBN, EGHB, K, NMW
Countries
Europe: France, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, United KingdomWest African Islands: Azores
Associate(s)
Campbell, Maybud Sherwood (1903-1982) (co-collector)
Clapham, Arthur Roy (1904-1990)
Tutin, Thomas Gaskell (1908-1987) (co-author, co-collector)
Warburg, Oscar Emanuel (1876-1937) (father)
Crundwell, Alan Cyril (1923-2000) (co-author)
Biography
Botanist of German-Jewish origin, the son of Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg (1876-1937), a businessman of Headley, Epsom, Surrey and London, former alderman of North Hackney and chairman of London County Council. Edmund Frederic Warburg trained in natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge where he met T.G. Tutin, and was later appointed assistant lecturer at Bedford College, London. After the Second World War he became a Demonstrator in Botany at Oxford University and Curator of the Druce Herbarium, Oxford (1948-). He was a co-author of the Flora of the British Isles (1962) with A.R. Clapham and T.G. Tutin, the standard floristic account of British vascular plants for some 30 years. E.F. Warburg was appointed Reader in Plant Taxonomy at Oxford in 1964. Collections were made mainly in Britain and western Europe. In the Outer Hebrides (1946) he discovered the bryophyte Anoectangium warburgii Crundw. & M.O. Hill (= Molendoa warburgii (Crundw. & M.O. Hill) R.H. Zander). which was named after him.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 693; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 266; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1052, 1114;
