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### Author
Irvine, Frederick Robert (1898-1962), British botanist; from 1924-1940 lecturer at Achimota College, Ghana; in England 1940-1961; at Legon, Ghana 1961-1962.
**Abbreviated name**: *F. Irvine* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Irvine*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FHO|FHO]] (main coll.), [[Collection GC|GC]], [[Collection K|K]]. – Manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection G|G]].
*Ref*.: Hepper, F. N. and F. Neate, Pl. coll. W. Afr. 40. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 232; BL 1: 39, 302; Desmond p. 337; IH 2: 302; Kew 3: 121.
- Anon., The Times 22 Aug 1962.
- Hepper, Nature 196: 319. 1962.
- Morton, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 174: 155. 1963.
- Potier de la Varde, Rev. bryol. lichén. 20(3/4): 196. 1951 (Gold Coast and Sierra Leone mosses collected by I.).
#### Portrait
See Bossert, p. 190.
### Publications
##### n.3194. Plants of the Gold Coast
**Title**
*Plants of the Gold Coast*... Oxford University Press London: Humphrey Milford 1930. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Gold Coast*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1930 (p. ix: Apr 1930), frontispiece, p. \[i\]-lxxix, \[i\]-521, *fig. 1-69* (on plates). *Copies*: MO, USDA. – Annotated list of ca. 1200 phanerogams.