> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 434](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266111) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1849-1) LSID 1849-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2918831) QID Q2918831 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Cowan, John Macqueen (1892-1960), Scottish botanist, born Banchory, Kincardineshire, studied at the University of Edinburgh, MA ib., BA Oxon 1931, in the Indian forest Service 1914, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta 1926-1928, collected in Sikkim, Bengal and Burma, asst. regius keeper Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1930-1954. **Abbreviated name**: *Cowan* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cowan*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection E|E]], further material at [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection K|K]] (with C.D. Darlington 2500), [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection SING|SING]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 389; Desmond p. 153; Hortus 3: 1191; IH 2: 142; Kew 1: 634-635; Zander ed. 10, p. 648, ed. 11, p. 737. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Chron. 131: 102. 1952 (portr.), 139: 7. 1956 (portr.), 148: 505. 1960 (obit.); The Times 31 Oct 1960 (d.); Nature 188: 982-983. 1960. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 138.20, 269.119. 1980. - Fletcher, H.R. and W.H. Brown, Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 1670-1970.244, 245, 251, 253. 1970 (portr.). ### Publications ##### n.27.996. flora **Title** The *flora* of the *Chakaria* sundarbans... Calcutta (Government of India Central Publication Branch) 1928. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Chakaria*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 5 Jan 1928 (date of printing), cover-t.p., p. \[i-ii\], \[197\]-225, *1 uncol. map. Copies*: L; NY, U. – Issued as Rec. Bot. Surv. India 11(2). 1928. ##### n.27.997. Forests **Title** The *Forests* of *Kalimpong*, an ecological account... Calcutta (Government of India Central Publication Branch) 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *For. Kalimpong*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 14 Jun 1929 (date of printing), cover-t.p., p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-ii, \[1\]-74, *1 col. map. Copies*: NY, U. – Issued as Rec. Bot. Surv. India 12(1). 1929. ##### n.27.998. trees **Title** Government of Bengal. The *trees* of *Northern Bengal*. Including shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, palms and tree ferns... Calcutta (Bengal Secretariat Book Depot) 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Trees N. Bengal*. **Notes** *Co-author*: A.M. Cowan, B.A. *Publ*.: 1929, p. \[1\]-178. *Copies*: HH, L, MO, U. *Note*: Text on p. \[1\]: "Being a revision of the list of the trees, shrubs, and large climbers found in the Darjeeling District, Bengal, by J.S. Gamble, M.A., F.L.S." \[For James Sykes Gamble (1847-1925), see TL-2/1: 907-908\]. ##### n.27.999. Wendlandia **Title** The genus *Wendlandia*... Notes R.B.G. Edin.... 1932. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wendlandia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1932 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[233\]-316, *pl. 232-235* (uncol. draw.). *Copies*: L, U. – Issued as Notes roy. bot. gard. Edinburgh 16(80). 1932. *See also*: Generis *Wendlandiae additamenta*... Notes R.B.G. Edin.... 1934. *Publ*.: Apr 1934 (in journal), p. 182-188. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from id. 18(89): 103-188. 1934. ##### n.28.000. history **Title** The *history* of the *Royal Botanic Garden*, *Edinburgh*... Notes R.B.G. Edin.... 1933. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. R.B.G. Edinb.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1933 (in journal), cover-t.p., frontisp., p. \[1\]-62. *Copy*: L. – Issued as Notes roy. bot. gard. Edinburgh 19(91). 1933. ##### n.28.001. Malaysian species of Wendlandia **Title** The *Malaysian species of Wendlandia* (Rubiac.)... Buitenzorg \[h.t. Bogor\] (Archipel Drukkerij). 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1936 (date on cover-t.p.; Nat. Nov. Apr 1937), cover-t.p., p. \[7\]-46. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg ser. 3. 14(1): 7-46. 1936.