> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 312](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259816) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2814-1) LSID 2814-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4491809) QID Q4491809 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Forbes, Francis Blackwell|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Forbes, Francis Blackwell (1839-1908), American businessman, botanist and member of a Mass. family long involved in the China trade, born 11 Aug 1839 in New York City, went to China and arrived in Hong Kong Nov 1857 (18 years old), started studying 1869 and began collecting plants 1872, visited Europe (London, Paris and St. Petersburg) 1875-1877, F.L.S. 1875, returned to China (Shanghai) until 1882, settled in England but went to Paris in 1886, left for Boston in 1904, where he died 21 Mai 1908. **Abbreviated name**: *F.B. Forbes* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.B.Forbes*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (orig.); Chinese material also in [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection HK|HK]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection UC|UC]]. – Mss. materials in Forbes family papers, 1732-1931 (Mass. Historical Society, Boston) and Forbes family business records, 1803-1942 (Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 205; Backer p. 219; Barnhart 1: 556; BB p. 110; BM 2: 592; BN p. 173; Bossert p. 129; Bretschneider p. 720-723; CSP 9: 896, 15: 49; Desmond p. 228, ed. 2: 253; Ewan Pap. p. 71; Frodin ed. 2: 793; Herder p. 450 (index); Hist. Coll. BMNH p. 149; Hortus 3: 1193; IH 2: 202; Kew 2: 306; Kew List 23; Morren ed. 10: 72; MW p. 122; NAF 28B(2): 330; Portr. 3: 438; Rehder 5(index): 288; SK 4(2): clviii (index); TL-2/1: 852-853; Tucker 1: 254; Urban-Berl. p. 346; Zander ed. 10: 659, ed. 11: 750, ed. 17: 948. #### Biofile - Anon., A catalog of the Edward L. Greene collection: 126. 1986. - Allis, F.S., Jr. (ed.) & A.W. Williams (assoc. ed.), 1969. The Forbes papers, Boston (Mass. Historical Society, Microfilm Publ., no. 5): reel 21-37, Letterbooks and papers of Francis Blackwell Forbes. (n.v.); Id., Guide to the microfilm edition of the Forbes papers, Boston (The Mass. Historical Society): 68 p. (n.v.) - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 401. (index) - Britten, J., 1910. J. Bot. 48: 19-22. - Forbes, F.B., 1887. J. Bot. 25: 1-11. (obit. of Henry Fletcher Hance (1827-1886) based, in part, on corr. with Forbes) - Mears, J.A., 1981. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 150. (as "Frances B.") - S\[tapf\]., O., 1909. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1908/1909: 38-40. #### Note The facsimile reprint "announced by Koeltz (1973)" of *An enumeration of all the plants known from China proper*... 1899-1902 (TL-2/1, nr. 1814) was published in 1980. ### Publications ##### n.35.054. critical Chinese species **Title** On some *critical Chinese species* of *Clematis*... Reprinted from the Journal of Botany... 1884. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1884 (in journal), p. \[1\]-4. *Copies*: G, HH (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 22(9): 261-265. 1884.