> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 828](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355915) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7130-1) LSID 7130-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482698) QID Q5482698 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Oliver, Francis Wall (1864-1951), British ecologist and palaeobotanist; lecturer in (1888) and professor (1890-1929) at University College, London; professor of botany at Cairo University 1929-1935; son of Daniel Oliver. **Abbreviated name**: *F. Oliver* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.Oliv.*\] #### Herbarium and types Egyptian material at [[Collection CAI|CAI]]; some French material at [[Collection C|C]]. #### Biography and bibliography AG 5(1): 185; Andrews p. 310; Barnhart 3: 27; BJI 2: 126; BL 2: 260, 697; BM 3: 1469, 7: 953-954; Bossert p. 293; CSP 17: 609; DNB 1951-1960: 779-780; Hirsch p. 219; Kew 4: 184-185; Langman p. 551; LS 19460; MWp. 370; Rehder 5: 634; SK 1: cix; TL-2/3600. Andrews, H. N., The fossil hunters 85, 99, 139, 158-166. 1980. Anon., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 68: 105. 1955 (d.); Bot. Centralbl. 36: 32. 1888 (app. Univ. Coll.); Bot. Jahrb. 10 (Beibl. 23): I. 1889; Gard. Chron. 1925 (1): 388 (portr., obit.); Nat. Nov. 27: 248, 374. 1905 (F. R. S.; prof. bot. Univ. Coll.); The Times 18 Sep 1851 (fide Desmond). Arber, A., Nature 168: 809-811. 1951 (obit., b. 10 Mai 1864, d. 14 Sep 1951). Britten, J., J. Bot. 65: 238-239. 1927. Hawksworth, D. L. & M. R. D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 129. 1977. Huxley, L., Life letters J. D. Hooker 2: 180, 181, 279. 1912. Oliver, F. W., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1924/25: 59-61 (gold medal Linn. Soc., addresses). Salisbury, E. J., Obit. Notices Fellows R. Soc. 8: 229-240. 1952-53 (biogr., portr., bibl., b. 10 Mai 1864, d. 14 Sep 1951). #### Composite works Translated A. Kerner's *Pflanzenleben*, see TL-2/3600, *Nat. hist. pl.* #### Eponymy *Oliveria* A. Nayal (1935). ### Publications ##### n.7059. Makers of British botany **Title** *Makers of British botany* a collection of biographies by living botanists edited by F. W. Oliver. Cambridge (at the University Press) 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1912 (p. \[v\]: Oct 1912; ÖbZ Dec 1912; J. Bot. Feb 1913; Nat. Nov. Mar(1) 1913), frontisp. portr. J. H. Balfour, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-332, *pl. 1-26.* *Copies*: BR, USDA. *Ref*.: Britten, J., J. Bot. 51: 63-66. Feb 1913.