> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 38](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120169) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/170-1) LSID 170-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q674391) QID Q674391 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Alston, Arthur Hugh Garfit (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Alston, Arthur Hugh Garfit (1902-1958), British pteridologist and plant collector. **Abbreviated name**: *Alston* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alston*\] #### Herbarium and types Most of the originals of Alston's collections are at [[Collection BM|BM]]; some, especially of the collections made with N.Y. Sandwith, are at [[Collection K|K]]. The location of the types is indicated in the publications. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 33. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 45; BL 1: 22; Bossert p. 9; IF suppl. 3: 201, 4: 311-313; Kew 1: 44-45; MW p. 4. - Elliot, The Times, London, 28 Mar 1958. - Greenfield, Brit. Fern Gaz. 8: 220-222. 1958. - Lourteig, Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 7: 136-137. 1958. - Bell, Taxon 8: 83-86. 1959 (bibl., portr.) - Morton, Amer. Fern J. 49: 1-2. 1959. - Crabbe, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3: 385-395. 1960 (bibl.); 5: 240-248. 1969 (index). - Anon., Mem. Soc. Brot. 18: frontispiece. 1966 (portr.) (vol. dedicated to Alston). #### Eponymy *Alstoniamitus* B. Skvortzov (1967). ### Publications ##### n.105. Nova Guinea **Title** Undescribed ferns from New Guinea. *Nova Guinea* ser. 2. 4: 109-112. *t. 4-11.* 1940. **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Dec 1940. Text previously published Oct 1940 in J. Bot. 78: 225-229. *Ref*.: Kew 1: 44. - Crabbe, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3: 389. 1960. - Pichi-Sermolli, Regn. veg. 37: 311. 1965.