> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 385](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265582) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1023-1) LSID 1023-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5544565) QID Q5544565 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Boulger, George Edward Simmonds|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Boulger, George \[Edward\] Simmonds (1853-1922), British botanist, born at Bletchingley, Surrey, educated at Wellington and Epsom Colleges as well as at the "Middle Temple", professor of natural history at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 1876, from 1884 lecturer on botany and geology at the City of London College, id. also at the Imperial Institute from 1917, active in the Essex Field Club and the Selborne Society, historian of British botany. **Abbreviated name**: *Boulger* \[standard form in IPNI: *Boulger*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. − Manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 229; BB p. 40, 339; BJI 2: 6; BL 2: 633 (index); BM 1: 213, 6: 115; CSP 9: 312, 12: 103, 13: 726; Desmond p. 78 (b. 5 Mar 1853, d. 4 Mai 1922); GR p. 390; Jackson p. 252; Kew 1: 321-322; Morren ed. 10, p. 72; NI 218; Plesch 154; Rehder 5(index) 110; TL-2/1: 294 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 102, 767. #### Biofile - Anon., Times 5 Mai 1922 (obit.). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 60: 232-236. 1922 (obit.). - Druce, G.C., Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 6: 692-693. 1923. - Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1921/22: 40-41. 1922. - Jermyn, S.T., Fl. Essex 13. 1974. - Riddelsdell, H.J., Fl. Gloucestershire cxxxiii-cxxxiv. 1948. - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 296. 1981. #### Composite works - (1) With James Britten (1846-1926), *A biographical index of British and Irish botanists*, London 1893, see TL-2/772. - (2) *History of Ceylon Botany*, *in* H. Trimen, *A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon*, see TL-2/15.157, in vol. 5: 369-381. 1900. - (3) With Ida Southwell Perrin (1860-?), *British flowering plants* 1914, see TL-2/7709, introduction and descriptive notes by G.S. Boulger. − See also J. Bot. 51: 263. Aug 1913 (prospectus and specimen plates issued), and BL 2: 215. #### Notes - (1) *History of Essex botany*. Part 1. The botanists of the 16-th and 17-th centuries, *Essex Natural*. 11: 57-68, 169-184, 229-236. 1899-1900, 13: 218-229. 1904 (unfinished, ends with John Ray). - (2) *Botanical bibliography of the south-eastern counties*, Proc. S.E. Union Soc. 4: 43-52. 1899 (annotations, lists herbaria). ### Publications ##### n.22.398. Familiar trees **Title** *Familiar trees*... London, Paris, New York & Melbourne... \[1887-1888\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fam. trees*. **Notes** *Publ*.: *1* ("First series"): 1887 (BM 1: 213, Nat. Nov. Mar (2) 1887), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-160, \[1-12\], *40 col. pl.* (incl. frontisp.; artist W.H.J. Boot). *2* ("Second series"): 1888 (fide BM 1: 213), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-168, \[1-16\], *40 col. pl.* (incl. frontisp.). *Copies*: NY. *New edition*: 1906 (Nat. Nov. Jan (1) 1907, Apr (1) 1907), viii, 160 p., n.v., see J. Bot. 434-435. Dec 1906. ##### n.22.399. The uses of plants **Title** *The uses of plants*: a manual of economic botany, with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years... London (Roper & Drowley,...) 1889. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Uses pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai-Jun 1889 (Bot. Zeit. 28 Jun 1889, J. Bot. Jun 1889, ÖBZ 1 Aug 1889), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-224. *Copy*: MO. *Ref*.: Warlich, H., Bot. Centralbl. 44(41): 51-52. 8 Oct 1890 (rev., "lesenswerth und inhaltreich"). - J.R.J. \[John Reader Jackson\], J. Bot. 27: 377-379. Dec 1889 (detailed rev.). ##### n.22.400. Wood **Title** *Wood*, a manual of the natural history and industrial applications of the timbers of commerce... London (Edward Arnold). 1908. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wood*. **Notes** *Publ*.: *Ed. 1*: 1902 (Nat. Nov. Feb (1) 1903), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-369. n.v. *Ed. 2*: Jan-Feb 1908 (Nat. Nov. Mar (2) 1908), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-348, pl. 1-48 (photos). *Copies: *MO, U. *Ref*.: J.R.J. \[John Reader Jackson\], J. Bot. 41: 26-28. Jan 1903 (rev. of ed. 1). ##### n.22.401. Plant geography **Title** *Plant geography*... London (Aldine House... J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.) 1912. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl.geogr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1912 (preface dated Oct 1912), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-136. *Copy*: U. ##### n.22.402. Pioneers of plant study **Title** *Pioneers of plant study*... London (The Sheldon Press...), New York and Toronto (The Macmillan Co.) \[1928\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pioneers pl. study*. **Notes** *Authorship*: "This book was originally planned, and some parts of it written, in collaboration with the late G.S. Boulger" (on t.p.), senior author Ellison Hawks. *Publ*.: 1928, p. \[i\], frontisp., portr. Linnaeus, \[iii\]-x, 1-288, *pl. 1-15* (photos of scientists in text). *Copies*: MO, U.