> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 726](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120857) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2474-1) LSID 2474-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5627792) QID Q5627792 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Eggers, Henrik (Heinrich) Franz Alexander (Baron) von (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Eggers, Henrik \[Heinrich\] Franz Alexander Baron von (1844-1903), Danish soldier and botanist, resided 1869-1887 in the Danish Antilles. **Abbreviated name**: *Eggers* \[standard form in IPNI: *Eggers*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]], duplicates widely distributed, in part as *Flora indiae occidentalis exsiccata* (ed. 1880-1886), and *Flora Americae tropicae*. The *Flora ind. occ. exs.* nos. 1-1100 were published by Töpffer (1881-1885), some of the later nos. by Rensch. For details see Urban (1902, 1916). *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 358, 2: 178. - Urban, Symb. ant. 3: 40-43. 1902. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 275, 286, 298, 342. 1916. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 498; BM 2: 513; Bossert p. 113; CSP 9: 780, 12: 215, 14: 790-791; Langman p. 259. - Warming, Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 237-238. 1881. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 41-46. 1898, 3: 40-43. 1902. - Christensen, Dan. Bot. Lit. 1: 613-616, 2: 499. 1924. - Hansen, Bot. Tidsskr. 69(2/3): 208. 1974. #### Eponymy *Eggersia* J. D. Hooker (1883). ### Publications ##### n.1631. The flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands. **Title** *The flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands.* Washington (Government Printing Company) 1879. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. St. Croix*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (p. iii: Mai 1879; Nat. Nov. Mar 1880), p. \[i\]-\[iii\], \[1\]-133. *Copy*: NY. – Bull. U.S. National Mus. 13: 1-133. 1879; Smithsonian publication 313, Smithsonian misc. Coll. 23(3). – For a prior review of the St. Croix flora see Eggers 1876; for a supplement Eggers 1889; for an extensive commentary see Urban 1898 who also supplies detailed notes on collections and types. *Ref*.: BM 2: 513; Jackson p. 404. - Eggers, Vid. Meddel. naturhist. For. Kjøbenhavn 1876: 33-158, 1889: 11-21. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 41-44. 1898.