> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 284](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266591) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1326-1) LSID 1326-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21388052) QID Q21388052 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Butcher, Roger William (1897-1971), British botanist and botanical artist, born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1897, studied at the University of London, B.S. 1922, Ph. D. 1931, assistant in the Kew Herbarium, assistant naturalist at Cambridge, Ministry of Agriculture 1925, from ca. 1939-1953 at Bramcote, Notts. with the Trent River Authority, at Fisheries Laboratory, Burnham nr. Crouch 1953-1963, from 1963 in retirement, died at Weymouth, Dorset 13 Oct 1971. **Abbreviated name**: *Butcher* \[standard form in IPNI: *Butcher*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection GW|GW]] (Auchincruive, West of Scottland, College of Agriculture), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 291; BFM 1421; BJI 2: 24; BL 2: 214; Desmond p. 110 (b. 25 Jul 1897, d. 13 Oct 1971); Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 110; Kew 1: 441; LS suppl. 4264-4266; NI 307, 307n; Roon p. 23. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The botanists 120. 1986. - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 660 (340a). 1984. - Jacques, H.J.K., Proc. Dorset nat. hist. arch. Soc. 91: 29-30. 1972 (obit.). - Jermyn, S.T., Fl. Essex 20-21. 1974. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 47. 1957. (3000 Ranunculus). - Kent, D.H. and D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 108. 1984. - Lousley, J.E., and H.A. Cole, Watsonia 9: 175-177. 1972 (obit.). - McClintock, D., Wild Fl. Mag. 363: 38. 1972 (obit. note). - Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. Univ. 83. 1984. #### Outside our period *A new illustrated British Flora*, parts 1-2. 1961, 1: \[i-viii\], 1-1061, 2: \[i-viii\], 1-1080. *Copies*: B, G, MO. ### Publications ##### n.23.972. Further illustrations of British plants **Title** *Further illustrations of British plants*... Ashford, Kent (L. Reeve & Co., Ltd.) 1930. Oct. (*Further ill. Brit. pl.*). **Notes** *Artist*: Florence E. Strudwick. *Publ*.: 1930 (Nat. Nov. Feb 1931), p. \[i\]-iv, \[v-vii\], 1-476. *Copies*: G, HH, MO, NY, U. – *Note*: For *Illustrations of British flora*, see W.H. Fitch, TL-2/1798. *Reprint*: 1944, p. \[i\]-iv, \[v-viii, see note on p. \[vii\]: not revised\], 1-476. *Copy*: U. – *Ref*.: Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 68: 347-349. Nov 1930 (rev.). Diels, L., Bot. Jahrb. 64 (Lit.): 52. 26 Oct 1903. (rev.).