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Broome, Christopher Edmund (1812-1886)

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)
Christopher Edmund
Last name
Broome
Initials
C.E.
Life Dates
1812 - 1886
Collecting Dates
1835 - 1874
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Fungi
Organisation(s)
BM (main), E (main), BEL, CGE, K, K-WA, MANCH, OXF, PC, RTE, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Berkeley, Miles Joseph (1803-1889) (co-author)
Biography
English mycologist from Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, who collaborated extensively with Miles Joseph Berkeley. He is commemorated by the mycological genera Broomeia Berk., Broomella Sacc., Broomeola Kuntze and Neobroomella Petr. His herbarium of some 40,000 specimens was bequeathed to BM (1886), but this consisted primarily of fungi which were transferred to K (c. 1961) under the terms of the Morton Agreement. Original algal specimens, lichenised fungi and myxomycetes, remain at BM. His scientific library is at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 87; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 22; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 11; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 100, 103; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 100;

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)
Christopher Edmund
Last name
Broome
Initials
C.E.
Life Dates
1812 - 1886
Collecting Dates
1835 - 1874
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Fungi
Organisation(s)
BM (main), E (main), BEL, CGE, K, K-WA, MANCH, OXF, PC, RTE, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Berkeley, Miles Joseph (1803-1889) (co-author)
Biography
English mycologist from Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, who collaborated extensively with Miles Joseph Berkeley. He is commemorated by the mycological genera Broomeia Berk., Broomella Sacc., Broomeola Kuntze and Neobroomella Petr. His herbarium of some 40,000 specimens was bequeathed to BM (1886), but this consisted primarily of fungi which were transferred to K (c. 1961) under the terms of the Morton Agreement. Original algal specimens, lichenised fungi and myxomycetes, remain at BM. His scientific library is at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 87; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 22; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 11; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 100, 103; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 100;
Broome, Christopher Edmund (1812-1886)
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