> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 250](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066590) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11617-1) LSID 11617-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q769117) QID Q769117 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author White, Francis Buchanan \[White\] (1842-1894), British naturalist; MD Edinburgh 1864; founder of the Scottish Naturalist 1871; lived and worked at Perth, being independent devoting himself entirely to botany and entomology. **Abbreviated name**: *F.B. White* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.B.White*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PTH|PTH]]; other material [[Collection ABD|ABD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection WAR|WAR]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 4: 285; Barnhart 3: 486; BB p. 324; BL 2: 293, 309, 731; BM 5: 2308; Clokie p. 264; CSP 8: 1229-1230, 11: 795-796, 12: 780, 19: 578-579 (major bibl. source); Desmond p. 654 (b. 20 Mar 1842, d. 3 Dec 1894); DSB 21: 35-36 (61: 35-36); DTS 6(4): 207-208; Hortus 3: 1207; LS 28781-28793; Rehder 1: 404, 5: 917; SBC p. 135; TL-2/see J.W.H. Trail; Tucker 1: 743, 2: xl; Zander ed. 11, p. 836. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 49: 248. 1895; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 256: 600-601. 1965; Entom. mon. Mag. 31: 30-31. 1895 (obit.); Entomologist 28: 25-27. 1895 (obit.); Entom. Record 6: 56. 1895 (obit., not.); Leopoldina 31: 55. 1895 (d.); Nature 51: 345. 1895 (obit. not.); Nat. Nov. 16: 567. 1894 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1894-1895, 38-39. (obit.). - Carrington, J.T., Science-gossip ser. 2. 1: 241-242. 1894 (obit., portr.). - Coates, F.B., Trans. Perthshire Soc. nat. Sci. 2: lv-lxvi. 1898 (obit.). - Elwes, H.J., Proc. Entom. Soc. London 1894: li (obit. not.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 85. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish Herb. 272. 1984. - Taylor, M.A., Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. Newsletter 6: 8. 1980 (request inf. mss.). - Trail, J.W.H., Ann. Scott. nat. Hist. 1895: 73-91. 1895 (obit., bibl.); J. Bot. 33: 49-52. 1895 (obit.), *in* F.B. White, *Fl. Perthsh.* xxviii-lix. 1898 (biogr., list bot. publ. p. xlvi-l). #### Composite works Editor, *The Scottish Naturalist* 1-6, 1871-1882. #### Note Son of the Scottish physician Francis Isaiah White (1815-1898); MD Edinburgh 1838; author of *Inaugural dissertation on geography of plants* 1838 (n.v.). ### Publications ##### n.17.465. A revision of the British willows... **Title** *A revision of the British willows...* Linn. Journ.-Botany, vol. xxvii \[1889\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 13 Nov 1890 (read 6 Jun 1889; cover journal issue 13 Nov 1890), p. 333-457, *pl. 9-11. Copies*: G, HH, NY. – Issued as J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 27(185-186): 333-457. *pl. 9-11. *1890. ##### n.17.466. The flora of Perthshire **Title** *The flora of Perthshire* by Francis Buchanan W. White... edited with an introduction and life of the author, a list of his scientific publications, and an appendix, by James W.H. Trail,... Edinburgh (printed for the Perthshire Society of Natural Science ...) 1898. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Perthsh.* **Notes** *Editor*: James William Helenus Trail (1851-1919). *Publ*.: Mai 1898 (J. Bot. Jun 1898: just out; Bot. Centralbl. 25 Mai 1898 (announcement of publ.); Nat. Nov. Jun(1) 1898), p. \[i-ii\], portr. author, \[iii\]-lix, map, \[1\]-407, \[408, colo.\]. *Copies*: BR, HH, MO, NY. *Facsimile ed*.: 1978, ISBN 0-7158-1335-8, East Ardsley, Wakefield 1978. – Preface matter 1978, p. \[1-4\], followed by facs. *Ref*.: Britton, J., J. Bot. 36: 321-324. 1898.