> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 602](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120733) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2039-1) LSID 2039-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513218) QID Q513218 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Burtt Davy, Joseph (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Davy, Joseph Burtt (1870-1940), British botanist, founder of the Pretoria National Herbarium, student of the flora of California, agriculturist, sylviculturist and ecologist. **Abbreviated name**: *J. B. Davy* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burtt Davy*\] #### Herbarium and types Original collections from California (1895-1898) at [[Collection UC|UC]], dupl. [[Collection B|B]]; from S. Africa (1903-1920) at [[Collection PRE|PRE]] (first set), [[Collection BOL|BOL]], [[Collection BUL|BUL]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection J|J]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NU|NU]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]] and other herbaria. *Ref*.: IH 2: 134. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 339. 1916. - Tölken, Index herb. austro-africanorum 44. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 427; BM 1: 429, 6: 256; CSP 14: 503; Kew 2: 31; Langman p. 171-172; LS 31789, suppl. 4248-4249. - Anon., Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 75: 266. 1924 (portr.) - Hutchinson, Nature 146: 424. 1940. - Verdoorn, Chron. bot. 6(2): 43. 1940. - Ramsbottom, Proc. Linn. Soc. 153: 291-293. 1942. - Ewan, *in* A century of progress in the natural sciences 45. 1955. - Thomas, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 151. 1961. #### Eponymy *Burttdavya* Hoyle (1936); *Davyella* E. Hackel (1899). ### Publications ##### n.1317. A manual of the flowering plants and ferns of the Transvaal **Title** *A manual of the flowering plants and ferns of the Transvaal* with Swaziland, South Africa... With illustrations by W. E. Trevithick and Alice Bolton \[2: by Mrs Burtt Davy, Miss M. Smith, and W. E. Trevithick\]. London (Longmans, Green and Co.) 1926-1932, 2 parts. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Man. pl. Transvaal*. **Notes** *Part 1*: Apr 1926 (see p. \[4\]), p. \[1\]-271, *fig. 1-40. Copies*: NY, US. *Part 2*: Jul 1932 (p. vi), p. \[i\]-xxxv, \[xxxvi, syn.\], \[i\*\], \[273\]-529, *fig. 41-80. Copies*: NY, U. *Parts 3-4*, unpublished, 1941, galley proofs and typescript at K.