> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 812](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120943) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2626-1) LSID 2626-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223013) QID Q223013 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Falconer, Hugh (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Falconer, Hugh (1808-1865), Scottish botanist and palaeobiologist, superintendent of the Serampore botanical garden (1832-1842), again in India 1848-1855. **Abbreviated name**: *Falc.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Falc.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]], including notes and drawings. – duplicates [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection DD|DD]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WU|WU]]. – Collected in India 1830-1855 ("Herbarium of the late East India Company"). *Ref*.: IH 2: 189. - Candolle, Phytographie 411. 1880. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 298-345. 1916. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 525; BB p. 104-105; BM 2: 554-555, 6: 313; Bossert p. 121; CSP 2: 551-552, 6: 652, 7: 636; DNB 18: 158; Jackson p. 413; MW p. 111; PR 2804; Quenstedt p. 134. - Anon., Proc. Linn Soc.. London 1864/65: xc-c. 1865. - Anon., Flora 48: 237. 1865. - Lyell, Proc. roy. Soc. London 15: xiv-xx. 1867. - Murchison, *in* Falconer, Palaeont. mem. notes 1: xxiii-liii. 1868 (portr.) - Embacher, Lexikon Reisen 109. 1882. - Woodward, Hist. Geological Society London 128-129, 328. 1907 (portr.) - Huxley, Life letters Hooker 2: 533 \[index\]. 1918. - Burkill, Chapt. hist. bot. India 238 \[index\]. 1965. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 139. 1969. - Challinor, DSB 4: 518-519. 1971. #### Eponymy *Falconeria* J. D. Hooker (1883); *Falconeria* Royle (1839). – *Note*: *Falconera* R. A. Salisbury (1866) is dedicated to John Falconer (x-1547), British botanist.