> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 345](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189816) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7862-1) LSID 7862-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21030376) QID Q21030376 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Porter, Carlos Emilio (1868-1942), Chilean naturalist; director of the zoology dept. of the Museo de Historia natural Valparaiso 1897-1910; natural history teacher at various colleges in Valparaiso and Santiago, e.g. at the Santiago military academy 1912-1918 and at the Institute agronómico de Chile 1901-1927; director of the zoological museum of the Institute 1914-1927, head of the invertebrate section of the Museo nacional 1912-1923, id. entomology section 1924-927; professor of animal parasitology at the Faculty of Agronomy 1919-1939. **Abbreviated name**: *C.E. Porter* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.E.Porter*\] #### Herbarium and types Some fungi at [[Collection NY|NY]]. – Letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 100; BL 1: 246, 313; BM 4: 1598, 8: 1022; CSP 17: 972-973; Lenley p. 333. #### Biofile - Anguita, B.F., Revista chil. hist. nat. 25: xi-xxiv. 1921 (tribute 25 yrs Revista; portr.). - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 107: 256. 1908 (app. Santiago); Bull. Acad. Geogr. bot. 9: 12-13. 1900, 11: 10. 1902, 13: 9. 1904, 18: 8. 1909; J. econ. Entom. 36: 247. 1913 (d.); Le Monde des Plantes 14: I. 1912 (on Naturalistas americanos); Nat. Nov. 30: 235. 1908 (app. Santiago); Österr. bot. Z. 58: 175. 1908 (app. Santiago); Physis 9(32): 155-156. 1928; Rev. Acad. colomb. Ci. exact. fis. nat. 3: 195. 1939 (obit.). - Birabén, M., Revista Mus. La Plata 1943: 133-135. 1944 (obit., portr.). - Carpenter, M.M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 81. 1945. - Gigoux, E.E., Bol. Mus. nac. Hist. nat., Chile, 20: 107-109. 1942 (obit.). - Gilbert, P. Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 301. 1977. - Howard, L.O., Smiths. misc. Coll. 84: 435-437. 1930 (entom. work). - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 14: 68. 1908 (app. Santiago). - L.T., Revista Soc. entom. Argent. 11: 485-486. 1943 (obit.). - Larrain, A.F., Revista Entom. Rio de Janeiro 14(1-2): 321-324. 1943 (obit., portr.). - Looser, G., Rev. Argent. Agron. 10: 77-80. 1943 (obit., portr.). - Porter, C.E., Bibliografia del Prof. Cárlos E. Porter, Santiago de Chile 1913, 16 p. (bibl.); Hoja de servicios y actuacion scientifica del Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Porter,... Santiago de Chile 1924, 7 p. (curr. vitae, publ.). - Reiche, K., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Chile 41. 1907 (Veg. Erde 8). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 7: 114, 351. 1943. - Zuniga, F.R., Revista chil. Hist. nat. 45: 7-9. 1943 (obit., d. 13 Dec 1942). #### Composite works Editor *Revista Chilena de Historia natural*, Valparaiso, vols. 1-44, 1897-1942. #### Eponymy *Bryoporteria* Thériot (1933); *Neoporteria* N.L. Britton et J.N. Rose (1922); *Porterula* Spegazzini (1920). *Note*: *Porterandia* Ridley (1940) commemorates George Porter (*fl*. 1800-1830), a plant collector in Penang; *Porteresia* Tateoka (1965) was dedicated to Prof. Roland Portères(1906-1974), French botanist and agronomist; *Porteria* W.J. Hooker (1851) was named in memory of Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842) British Consul-General in Caracas, Venezuela (1826-1841); *Porterinema* Waern (1952) was named for Hobart C. Porter, an American botanist who specialized in the study of algae and vascular cryptogams and who first translated Strasburger's *Textbook of Botany* into English.