Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), B, BR, CM, COI, DPU, MO, P, SAM, Z
Countries
Tropical Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
Associate(s)
Alexander, B. (1873-1910) (leader)
Alexander, C. (-1904) (travelled with)
Gosling, G.B. (fl. 1904-1905)
Macleod, O. (fl. 1910-1911)
Talbot, Dorothy Amaury (1871-1916) (co-collector, wife)
Biography
British traveller, surveyor and ethnographer who published on the Ekoi people of Nigeria. He accompanied the English explorer Lt Boyd Alexander and his brother Capt. Claud Alexander on an expedition (1904) which crossed Africa from Nigeria to the Nile. Claud Alexander died from fever and his brother Boyd, a keen ornithologist, was murdered on an expedition a few years later. Original material from Talbot's African travels was donated to BM, including almost 4,000 plant specimens, though some apparently went to K including around 1,400 duplicates from BM. The genera Amauriella Rendle in the Araceae, Talbotia S. Moore in the Acanthaceae and Talbotiella Baker f. in the Fabaceae all commemorate him.
References
Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 466; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 340; Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 33, 77, 78; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 485; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 989, 990;
