> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 168](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264895) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/281-1) LSID 281-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q730292) QID Q730292 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Arnott, George Arnott (sometimes Arnold) Walker|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Arnott, George Arnott \[sometimes Arnold\] Walker (1799-1868), Scottish botanist, educated at the Edinburgh High School 1807, studied at the University of Edinburgh 1813-1818 (languages, botany and mathematics), A.M. 1818, further law studies until 1821, admitted to the Faculty of Advocates 1821, inherited his father's property 1822, from then on mainly interested in botany, visited France 1821-1825, contacting the Paris botanists as well as Brébisson (Falaise), publishing widely between 1822 and 1868, regius professor of botany at Glasgow and director of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens 1845-1868. **Abbreviated name**: *Arnott* \[standard form in IPNI: *Arn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GL|GL]] (4000 herb.-specimens, botanical library), European (excl. Brit.) phanerogams on permanent loan at [[Collection E|E]] (as [[Collection E|E]]-GL); diatom types p.p. at [[Collection AWH|AWH]] (see G. Sayre 1969). Further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]] (mosses, diat.), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection BRISTM|BRISTM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FI|FI]]-W, [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]] (algae), [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WAR|WAR]], [[Collection WECO|WECO]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 79 (b. 6 Feb 1799, Edinburgh, d. 17 Mai 1868, Glasgow); BB p. 10; BM 1: 63, 2: 872; Clokie p. 122; CSP 1: 98-99, 6: 568, 12: 23; Desmond p. 19; De Toni 1: vii, 2(1): viii, cxix; DNB 2: 120-121; Frank 3(Anh.): 5; GR p. 73, 384; Hortus 3: 1187; IH 2: 42; Jackson see index; Kew 1: 83; KR p. 56; Langman p. 93; Lasègue p. 85, 132, 143, 144, 158, 290, 293, 330, 536; Lenley p. 10, 445; MD p. 36-49 (bibl.) (also in Med. Bot. Mus. Herb. Utrecht no. 283, 1968); ME 3: 405; MW p. 519; NI p. 5; PR 249-250, 3552, 4226, 10245 and see p. 567, ed. 1: p. 545, see also 10920-10921; Rehder 5(index): 27; RS p. 72; SK 4: cxvi; SO 313; TL-2/see indexes; TR 588; Tucker 1: 41; Urban-Berl. p. 293; Zander ed. 10, p. 629, ed. 11, p. 714, 765. #### Biofile - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 94, 95, 107, 118. 1967. - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 108. 1976. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 3: 864. 1845 (succeeds I.H. Balfour as prof. bot. Glasgow); J. Bot. 6: 223-224. 1868 (obit.); Taxon 15: 46. 1966 (general overseas herbarium on loan to E; crypt. and Brit. plants kept at G); The manuscript papers of British scientists 1600-1940 4. 1982. - Barnhart, J.H., Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 290. 1921. - Barr, E.S., Index biogr. fragm. unspecial. sci. journ., Univ. Alabama 1973, p. 272. - Behn, W.F.G., Leopoldina 7: 8. 1871-1872 (d. 15 Jan 1868). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. see p. 381. 1980. - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 19, 47, 48, 52, 57, 89. 1965. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 393. 1880. - Castellanos, A. and R.A. Perez-Moreau, Lilloa 7: 519. 1941 (numerous refs. in index to authors). - Cleghorn, H., Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 9: 414-426. 1868 (biogr., bibl. of 60 nos.). - Clokie, H.N., Acc. herb. Oxford 122. 1964. - Deby, J., Bibl. micr. microgr. stud. 3: 2. 1882 (lists papers on diatoms). - Devlin-Thorp, S., ed., Scotlands Cultural heritage, vol. 1, Edinburgh \[1 p.\]. 1981 (portr., bibl.). - Dickinson, C.I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 11. 1952. - Fletcher, H.R., Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 114, 171, 185. 1970. - Frison, E., Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck 48. 1959. - Graustein, J.E., Nuttall 285, 288, 327. 1967. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 47: 140-141. 1869 (obit.); Sci. papers 2: 347-348. 1889; Letters 2: 829 \[index\]. 1893. - Hedge, I.H. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 55. 1970 (notes on E's holdings, incl. E-GL). - Herder, F. v., Cat. syst. bibl. Horti Petrop. ed. 2. 214, 231. 1886. - Hornschuch, C.F., Flora 9(1): 376. 1826 (trip to Pyrenees; at age of 27 called "der gründliche Mooskenner"). - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 431, 465-466. 1864. - Kent, D.H., Brit. Herb. 40. 1953 (herb.). - Kent, D.H. and D.E. Allen, British and Irish herbaria 82. 1984 (q.v. for further inf. on his Brit. and Irish vascular plants). - Koster, J. Th., Taxon 6: 49. 1957 (alg. coll.). - Lamond, J., Newsletter Soc. bibl. nat. Hist. 12: 7. 1981 (mss. lists in W.J. Hooker mss. at E). - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 272, 290, 312, 326. 1985. - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. expl. Trans-Miss. West 1790-1850, p. 208, 355, 356, 357, 627, 979. 1955. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 102. 1906. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts., Brit. Mus. 1: 130. 1904 (mosses, 660 microsc. prep.). - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 108, 112. 1940; John Torrey 106-107, 119, 297. 1942. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 62. 1969 (exsicc.). - Seemannn, B.C., J. Bot. 6: 223-224. 1868. - Synnott, D.M., Glasra 4: 18. 1980 (bryoph. in DBN). - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. diat. 4: 2287. 1971 (bibl. diat.), 6: 3508. 1978 (id.), 7: 4147. 1978 (id.). - Verleyen, E.J.B., Levensschets van Dr. M. van Heurck 62. 1942 (on diatom coll.). - Zuchold, E.A., Jahresber. nat. Ver. Halle 5: 57. 1853 (*Pug. pl. Ind. or*). #### Correspondence BM, E, HU, LINN (with papers), NY (Porrey corr.), U (with F.A.W. Miquel), UPS (Univ. library). #### Note A. is often cited as Walker-Arnott, George Arnott. #### Composite works - (1) With Robert Kaye Greville, *Tent. meth. musc.* see TL-2/2159, see also MD p. 134-135. - (2) with W.J. Hooker, *Brit. fl.*, see TL-2/3000, ed. 6, ed. 7. - (3) with W.J. Hooker, *Bot. Beechey Voy.*, see TL-2/3001. - (4) See B.M. Kittel, *Mém. hist. nat.*, see TL-2/3685. ### Publications ##### n.19.485. Disposition méthodique des espèces de mousses **Title** *Disposition méthodique des espèces de mousses*. Paris 1824, see TL-2/186. *German comments*: see A.E. Fürnrohr 1827 (TL-2/1914), Versuch einer näheren Beleuchtung der Disposition méthodique... par G.A. Walker-Arnott, *in* Flora 10(2) (Beih. 1): 22-86. 1827. ##### n.19.486. Notice of a Journal of a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to the coast of Peru **Title** Notice of a Journal of a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to the coast of Peru, by Mr. William Jameson, Surgeon,... \[Wern. Soc. Mem.... 1823/24\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1823/24, p. \[i\], \[1\]-21. *Copies*: G(2). – Unidentified reprint from Mem. Wern. Soc. 5: 187-205. 1823/24. – For W. Jameson see TL-2/2: 421. ##### n.19.487. New genera of plants **Title** *New genera of plants*... From the Edinb. New Phil. Jour.... 1834. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1834 (in journal), p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Edinburgh new phil. J. 17: 260-268. 1834.