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Barter, Charles (-1859)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Charles
Last name
Barter
Initials
C.
Life Dates
- 1859
Collecting Dates
1857 - 1859
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), A, B, GH, GOET, LE, MO, NY, P, S, TCD, U, W
Countries
Tropical Africa: Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo
Associate(s)
Baikie, William Balfour (1825-1864) (co-collector, leader)
Roy. Bot. Soc. Lond. (1839-1931) (employee)
Biography
British gardener who trained at Kew (1849-1851) and became foreman of the Regent's Park gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, London (1851-1857). He joined the second Niger Expedition of W. Baikie (1857-1859) which ended prematurely when the ship struck rocks near Jebba and sank. The survivors of the expedition were not rescued from Africa for a year but Barter caught dysentry and died at Rabba, Nigeria. He is commemorated by the genus Barteria Hook. f. in the Passifloraceae.
References
Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 50; Hedge, I.C. & Lamond, J.M., Index Coll. Edindb. Herb. (1970): 58; Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 8; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 6; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 57;
Barter, Charles (-1859)
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