> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 898](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33334037) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10113-1) LSID 10113-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8962766) QID Q8962766 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stern, \[Sir\] Frederick Claude (1884-1967), British banker, soldier, horticulturist and botanist; treasurer Linnean Society 1941-1958; chairman John Innes Horticultural Institution 1947-1961. **Abbreviated name**: *F.C. Stern* \[standard form in IPNI: *Stern*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection K|K]]; *letters* and mss. at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 326; Bossert p. 382; Desmond p. 583 (b. 8 Apr 1884, d. 10 Jul 1967); Hortus 3: 1204; MW p. 471-472, suppl. 334; NI 1895; Plesch p. 416, 417; Roon p. 108; Sotheby 720, 721; Zander ed. 10, p. 721, ed. 11, p. 822. #### Biofile - Anon., Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 1(3) app. 1: xxxi. 1969; Bull. misc. Kew 1925: 1-6 (description of his garden at Highdown); Gard. Chron. 1932(1): 340 (portr.), 1956(1): 6 (knighthood), 162(7): 4. 1967 (obit.); Who's who (London) 1959-1967; Who was who 6 (1961-1970): 1076. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.339. 1980. - Fletcher, H.R., Story R. Hort. Soc. 335, 405, 409, 424. 1969. - Hadfield, M. et al., Brit. Gardeners 272. 1980. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 701. 1985. - Morton, Iris Year Book 1967: 15-17 (obit.). - Palmer, L., J.R. Hort. Soc. 92(9): 379-381. 1967 (obit.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 197. 1935. - Wyatt, O.E.P., Lily Yearb. 1968: 9-10. #### Note Main works (outside our period): *A study of the genus Paeonia*, 1946 (viii, 156 p., *15 pl*. by L. Snelling), published late Dec 1946 (W.T. Stearn, in lit.); *Snowdrops and snowflakes* a study of the genus Galanthus and Leucojum, 1956 (vii, 128 p., *15 pl.*).