> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 269](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265946) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1740-1) LSID 1740-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5719708) QID Q5719708 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Collett, (Sir) Henry|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Collett, Henry (1836-1901), British colonial army officer, botanist and collector, born at Thetford, Norfolk, early training at Tonbridge School (W. Kent), entered the Bengal Army 1855, in the Indian Mutiny 1857, with the Sittana Expedition on the N.W. Frontier 1858, in the Janitea war 1862-1863, id. in Abyssinian war 1867-1868, took up botany in 1877, retired from the Bengal Army 1893, worked on his Flora simlensis (issued 1902), died at Kew, Surrey, 21 Dec 1901. **Abbreviated name**: *Collett* \[standard form in IPNI: *Collett*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]. – Further material in [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection DD|DD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection W|W]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 392; Barnhart 1: 367 (b. 6 Mar 1836, d. 21 Dec 1901, London); BB p. 69-70; BJI 1: 11; BM 6: 218; CSP 14: 306; Desmond p. 141-142 (major source); DNB suppl. 2(1): 384; Hortus 3: 1190; IH 2: 133; Jackson p. 15; Kew 1: 589; MW suppl. p. 50; NI 384; Rehder 1: 475, 576; SK 1: 108, 112, 602 (visited W. Java); TL-2/1: 526; Tucker 1: 165; Zander ed. 10, p. 646, ed. 11, p. 735. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 37: 447. 1899 (note on forthcoming *Flora of Simla*; see TL-2/1176); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1901-1902: 28-30. 1902. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.268. 1980. - Clarke, C.B., J. Bot. 40: 73-74. Feb 1902 (obit., detailed, major source \[with Desmond\]). - Collett, H., Blackwood Mag. Edinburgh 1894: 78-97 ("Six weeks in Java"). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 842, 429a. 1984. - Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 70. 1970. - Masters, M.T., Gard. chron. ser. 3. 31: 14. 1901. - Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Introd. to Collett, *Fl. siml.* xv-xxii. 1902; Kew Bull. 1902(1): 18-23 (obit. note). - White, A. and B.L. Sloane, The Stapeliae 51. 1933, ed. 2. 193. 1937. ### Publications ##### n.26.987. plants from Upper Burma **Title** On a collection of *plants from Upper Burma* and the Shan States... London (... Longmans, Green, and Co., and Williams and Norgate) 1890. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: William Botting Hemsley (1843-1924), see TL-2/2: 150-153. *Publ*.: 5 Nov 1890 (in journal; Nat. Nov. Jan (1) 1891), cover-t.p., map, p. \[1\]-150, *pl. 1-22* (uncol. liths. M. Smith). *Copies*: HH, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 28(189-191): 1-150, *pl. 1-22*, map. 1890. *Ref*.: Taubert, P., Bot. Jahrb. 13(Lit.): 29-31. 1891 (rev.). ##### n.26.988. some plants of the Himalaya **Title** Notes on *some plants of the Himalaya*. A paper read before the Natural history Society of Tonbridge School... London 1895. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Himalaya*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1895 (read on 11 Mai 1895), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-24. *Copy*: HH. – Fide Tucker 1: 165, Rehder 1: 475.