> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 5](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264770) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10284499) QID Q10284499 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Abbott, Francis, Jr. (1834-1903), English born botanist and gardener, from ca. 1851 connected with the Botanical Gardens at Hobart, Tasmania (Australia), from 1859-1903 superintendent of the Gardens succeeding F.W. Newman. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Abbott* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 4 (b. 18 Jun 1834, d. 22 Nov 1903); BB p. 1; CSP 9: 3; Desmond p. 1; HU portr. coll. 1; Jackson p. 453 (attributes *Cat. of Plants* 1865 to him); Rehder 1: 69. #### Biofile - Anon., Abbott, Francis Jr. 1834-1903, unidentified curr. vitae and list of publications in TL-2/files. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 27(3): 339. 1938 (superint. 1859-1903). - Maiden, J.H., Records of Tasmanian Botanists (Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1909), p. 2-3; Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 1909: 10-11 (brief obit. b. 18 Jun 1834, Derby, England, d. 22 Nov 1903, Hobart). - Wilson, E.H., J. Arnold Arb. 3: 52-53. 1921. #### Note Jackson attributes the anonymous *Catalogue of plants*... Royal Society's Gardens, Queen's Park, Hobart Town 1865, Oct. to him. This seems likely because Abbott was then superintendent.