> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 203](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265400) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/850-1) LSID 850-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4088004) QID Q4088004 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Blanford, Henry Francis (1834-1893), British meteorologist, geologist and botanist, studied at the British Royal School of Mines 1851-1854, at the University of Freiburg, Baden 1854-1855, with the Geological Survey of India 1855-1862, professor at Presidence College, Calcutta 1862-1874, also meteorological reporter to the Government of Bengal from 1867, idem for the Indian Government 1875-1889, returned to Great Britain 1889 settling at Folkestone. **Abbreviated name**: *Blanf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Blanf.*\] #### Herbarium and types Some material at [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] (pterid.), [[Collection M|M]] (pterid.) and [[Collection US|US]]. #### Bibliography and biography BM 1: 173; CSP 7: 190-191, 9: 258-259, 13: 595-596; DSB suppl. 1: 217; IF p. 682, suppl. 4, p. 314; IH 2: 78; Kew 1: 265; Quenstedt p. 43 (b. 7 Oct 1834, d. 23 Jun 1893); Rehder 4: 49; Tucker 1: 87, 659. #### Biofile - Anon., Nature 47(1214): 322-323. 1893 (obit.); Leopoldina 29: 55. 1893 (obit. not.); Geol. Mag. ser. 2. dec. 3. 10: 191-192. 1893 (obit., d. 23 Jan 1893); Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 49: 52-54. 1893 (obit.). - Pedler, A., Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 1893: 72-74. 1894 (obit.). - W.T.B., Proc. Roy. Soc. London 54: xii-xix. 1894 (obit.). - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 611, 700. 1899. ### Publications ##### n.21.488. Silver ferns of Simla **Title** The *Silver ferns of Simla* and their allies: read before the Simla Natural History Society... \[Calcutta... 1886\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1886, p. \[1\]-12. *Copy*: G. − Reprinted and to be cited from J. Simla Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 13-22. 1886. ##### n.21.489. An annotated list of the ferns of Simla **Title** *An annotated list of the ferns of Simla* between the elevations of 4.500 and 10.500 feet... (Printed for private distribution only)... \[Calcutta\] (Printed by the Calcutta Central Press. Co., Ld. \[s.d., ca. 1888\]). Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Annot. list ferns Simla*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Unknown, probably circa 1888 (the G copy has a letter from Christ to Autran 30 Mar 1892 in which Christ states that he too does not know the date. He adds \[translated\]: "I think that this is an independent publication such as the English in the Indies now and then produce". − cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-18. *Copy*: G. ##### n.21.490. A list of the ferns of Simla **Title** *A list of the ferns of Simla* in the N.-W. Himalaya between levels of 4,500 and 10,500 feet... Calcutta (Printed by G.H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press) 1889. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 23 Mar 1889 (read 6 Jun 1888, publ. in journal on 23 Mar 1889), p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 16-21 *(uncol. liths by Charles Fitch). *Copy*: L. − Reprinted from J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 57(2) \[no. 4\]: 294-315, *pl. 16-21.* 1889.