> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 117](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066457) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11453-1) LSID 11453-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2313258) QID Q2313258 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Webb, David Allardice (1912-x), Irish botanist; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge 1931-1935; lecturer with H.H. Dixon at Trinity College Dublin 1939-1949; professor of botany ib. 1949-1966; transferred to a personal chair of systematic botany ib. 1966; Sc.D. Trinity, Cambridge, 1951; Boyle medal 1981. **Abbreviated name**: *D. Webb* \[standard form in IPNI: *D.A.Webb*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection IBS|IBS]]. – Other material [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LTR|LTR]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]] (Saxifraga; lichens). #### Bibliography and biography BFM 1429, 1507; BL 2: 218, 282, 730; Bossert p. 428; Hortus 3: 1206; IH 1 (ed. 1): 11, (ed. 2): 48, (ed. 3): 57, (ed. 4): 62, (ed. 5): 58, (ed. 6): 80, (ed. 7): 80; Roon p. 121; SIA see index; Zander ed. 10, p. 730, ed. 11, p. 834. #### Biofile - Anon., B.S.B.I. News 35: 9. 1983; Irish Nat. J. 21: 283. 1984 (celebrations); Nature 146: 947-948. 1949 (successor H.H. Dixon). - Clinch, Ph., J. Life Sci. R. Dublin Soc. 4(2): 139-141. 1983 (citation Boyle Medal). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world nos. D-6, 638, 665. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 84. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish Herb. 269. 1984 (coll.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names 1-30. 1984. - Mitchell, M.E., Bibl. Irish lichenol. 68. 1971. - Praeger, R.L., Some Irish naturalists 175. 1949 (portr.). #### Composite works Co-editor, *Flora Europaea* 1964-1983. #### Note Outside our period: (1) *An Irish flora*, Dundalk (Dundalgan Press) 1943; ed. 2: 1953. ed. 3: 1959. ed. 4: 1963, ed. 5: 1967, ed. 7: 1977. - (2) *The flora of European Turkey*, Proc. R. Irish Acad. 65. Sect. B, no. 1, p. 1-100. 1966. - (3) With M.J.P. Scannell, *Flora of Connemara and the Burren*, 1983.