> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 50](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265247) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/619-1) LSID 619-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66934) QID Q66934 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Behr, Hans Herman(n)|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Behr, Hans Herman\[n\] (1818-1904), German (Saxony-Anhalt) physician, botanist, entomologist and poet, studied at the Universities of Halle (1837), Würzburg, and Berlin, Dr. med. Berlin 1843, went to Australia 1844-1845, collecting plants and insects, extended his travels to the Straits Settlements, East Indies and South Africa, returned to Germany 1848, went to Brazil 1848, Australia 1848, and the Philippine Islands 1849-1850, settled in California 1850 as practicing physician, later professor of botany at the California College of Pharmacy, San Francisco, narrowly associated with the Californian Academy of Sciences. **Abbreviated name**: *Behr* \[standard form in IPNI: *Behr*\] #### Herbarium and types Australian material at [[Collection MEL|MEL]], Californian material partly destroyed in San Francisco 1906, some material still at [[Collection CAS|CAS]]([[Collection DS|DS]]), further collections [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection HBG|HBG]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection W|W]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 154 (b. 18 Aug 1818, d. 6 Mar 1904); BB p. 339; Bossert p. 32; CSP 1: 248, 7: 124-125, 9: 171-172, 12: 63, 13: 409; Desmond p. 53; Hortus 3: 1188; HR; IH 2: 65; Kew 1: 203; Langman p. 123; ME 1: 536 (index); NAF ser. 2. 4: 41; Rehder 1: 324, 325, 326, 501, 507; SK 8: xiii; TL-2/1: 166; Tucker 1: 70. #### Biofile - Anon., Torreya 4(5): 77. 1904 (d.); Entom. News 15: 142-144. 1904. - Bates, R., Native Orchid Soc. S. Austral. J. 5(3): 25-26. 1982 (bibl.). - Behr, H.H., Erythea 4: 168-173. Nov 1896 (botanical reminiscences of San Francisco). - Bentham, G., Fl. austral. 1: 14\*. 1863. - Carpenter, M.M., Amer. Midland Naturalist 33(1): 7. 1945 (biogr. refs.). - Constance, L. Botany at Berkeley 2, frontisp. portr. 1978. - Cottle, J.E., Pan-Pacific. Entom. 3: 75-76. 1926. - Eastwood, A., Science ser. 2. 19: 636. 1904. - Essig, E.O., Hist. entomology 553-556. 1931 (detailed sketch of life and activities). - Ewan, J., *in* A century of progress in the natural sciences 43. 1955. - Ewan, J. et al., Leafl. W. Bot. 7(3): 46, 50, 55, 70-72. 1953 (bot. at CAS). - Gilbert, P., Comp. Biogr. Lit. deceased entomologists 26. 1977 (10 biogr. refs.). - Gutzkow, F., G. Chismore and A. Eastwood, Doctor Hans Herman Behr, San Francisco 1905, 7p. - Hall, H., Botanists of the Eucalypts 16. 1978. - Kloot, P.M., J. Adelaide bot. Gard. 6(2): 93-131. 1983. - Kraehenbuel, D.N., J. Adelaide bot. Gard. 3(1): 101-123. 1981 (on B's visists to Australia 1844-1845, 1848-1849; major source for his Australian visits). - Maiden, J.H., Rep. Austral. Ass. Adv. Sci. 11(D): 173-174. 1907, 13: 225. 1912. - Mallis, A., Amer. entomologists 286-288. 1971. - Musgrave, Anth., Australian Zoologist 6: 198. 1929-1931; Bibl. Austral. entom. 17. 1932. - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Linnaea 20(5): 559-672. Oct 1847 (treatment of B's S. Austral. plants). - Thomas, J.H., Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 149. 1961; Huntia 3: 25. 1969 (exp. Wash., Ore., Calif.). - Woolls, W., The progress of botanical discovery in Australia 34. 1869.