> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 75](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259579) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2652-1) LSID 2652-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568610) QID Q3568610 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fawcett, William|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Fawcett, William (1851-1926), Irish-born British botanist and agronomist, born 13 Feb 1851 in Arklow (Co. Wicklow), educated at Dulwich College and taught in Kent, England, B.Sc. 1879 King's College, London Univ., asst., Dept. of Botany, BMNH 1880-1886, F.L.S. 1881, dir. of Public Gardens & Plantations, Jamaica 1886-1908, collected extensively in Cayman Isls. 1888, in retirement returned to the BMNH and worked with A.B. Rendle on the *Flora of Jamaica*, died 14 Aug 1926 in Blackheath nr. London. **Abbreviated name**: *Fawc.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fawc.*\] #### Herbarium and types Cayman Isls.: [[Collection K|K]] (orig.); Jamaica: [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection JAM|JAM]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. – Some mss. material at Univ. of Edinburgh (a.o. Frederick Orpen Bower corr.), [[Collection GH|GH]] and [[Collection NY|NY]] (a.o. Nathaniel Lord Britton records). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 195; Barnhart 1: 530; BB p. 106; BL 1: 227, 295; BM 2: 559, 922, 983, 6: 316; Bossert p. 123; CSP 14: 943; Desmond p. 219, ed. 2: 242-243; Frodin ed. 2: 290; Hist. Coll. BMNH p. 148; Hortus 3: 1192; IH 2: 191; Kew 2: 241-242; Kew List 22; Langman p. 276; Lenley p. 163; LS 33.191-33.193; Morren ed. 10: 71; MW p. 113, suppl. p. 276; NAF 28B(2): 329, ser. 2(5): 238, ser. 2(7): 39, ser. 2(10): 209, ser. 2(12): 49; Plesch p. 221; Portr. 3: 421; Rehder 5(index): 272; RS p. 83; TL-2/1: 815-816, 2/4: 1170 (index); Tucker 1: 241, 2: xv, 3: 104; Urban-Berl. p. 345; Zander ed. 10: 658, ed. 11: 748, ed. 17: 947. #### Biofile - Anon. \[Druce?\], Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 8(1): 90-91. 1926. - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 227; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 290. - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 146. - Gepp, A., 1927. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1926-27: 80-81. - Rendle, A.B., 1926. J. Bot. 64: 310-314. (bibl.) - Rendle, A.B., 1927. Nat. Hist. Mag. 1(1): 30-32. (portr.) - Urban, I., 1898. Symb. Antill. 1: 50-51; 3: 46. 1902; 5: 6. 1908. - W\[right\]., C.H., 1926. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1926: 90-91. - Wright, C.H., 1926. Nature 118: 347. #### Note Additional information on *Fl. Jamaica*... 1910-1936, 5 vols. (TL-2/1, nr. 1745): *Ed. 1*: "A limited edition of 25 copies printed on special paper..." *Reprint vol. 1* \[of 1910\]: 1963 (p. 1 signed Sep 1963),... Kingston, Jamaica, p. \[i-v\], 1-121. Qu. *Copies*: BM(2), MO (n.v.). *Note*: (1) Photographic facsimile, "re-arranged but unexpurgated", of ed. 1, with added index and acknowledgment by G.W. Hart. (2) Pagination is changed and plates are rearranged so that they appear in the right-hand margin of each page. (3) Spine title of 1963 reprint, "*Orchids of Jamaica*". *Reprint vol. 1* \[of 1910\]: 1982,... Dehra Dun, India (Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[xix\], \[1\]-150, *pl. 1-32* (uncol. lith.), each pl. with facing p. (unnumb.) as caption. Oct. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US. *Note*: (1) Spine title of 1982 reprint, "*Orchids of Jamaica*". (2) Plates of 1982 reprint lack the detail of the original edition. #### Composite works - (1) Apetalae (p. 497-523) *in* "Prodomus \[sic\] floræ timorensis", which was published in H.O. Forbes, *Naturalist's wanderings E. Archipel.*... 1885; see nr. 35.055 below. - (2) Editor: (a) *Bulletin of the Botanical Department* (Kingston, Jamaica) (Apr 1887-1902), incl. the entire second series, vols. 1-9 (1894-1902); and (b) *Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica*, vols. 1-6 (Jan 1903-Feb/Mar 1908); a continuation of the preceding journal and for which a suppl. was issued Sep 1907. ### Publications ##### n.33.984. Entomogamous Fungus **Title** An *Entomogamous Fungus*... From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History ... 1886. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1886 (in journal), p. \[316\]-318. *Copies*: BM, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 18: 316-318. 1886. ##### n.33.985. Introduction **Title** *Introduction* to the *classification* of *plants*. A lecture delivered before The Horticultural and Flower Show Society, March, 1889, Kingston, Jamaica... Kingston (Mortimer C. DeSouza, Printer) 1889. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1889 (lecture date), p. \[1\]-15. *Copies*: BM, K (n.v.). *Note*: Head of p. \[1\], "Kingston Horticultural and Flower Show Society". ##### n.33.986. index **Title** Economic plants. An *index* to *economic products* of the vegetable kingdom of *Jamaica*... Kingston... (Government Printing Establishment...) 1891. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Index econ. prod. Jamaica*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-78. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, K(3) (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY. ##### n.33.987. Jamaican species **Title** An account of the *Jamaican species* of *Lepanthes*... Transactions of the Linnean Society... \[1904\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Jamaic. sp. Lepanthes*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Rendle, Alfred Barton (1865-1938), see TL-2/4: 727-730 and IH 2: 749. *Publ*.: Dec 1904 (in journal, read 16 Jun 1904), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-13, *pl. 1-2* (uncol. lith.). *Copies*: L(2), NY, U. – Issued as Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, 7(1): 1-13, *pl. 1-2.* 1904. ##### n.33.988. Woods **Title** *Woods* and forests of *Jamaica*... London (The West India Committee Rooms...) 1909. Duod. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909 (pref. signed Apr 1909), cover-t.p., p. \[i-iv (p. ii = portr. of Fawcett)\], \[1\]-18. *Copies*: BM, K, NY. ##### n.33.989. banana **Title** The *banana*, its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses... with an introduction by Sir Daniel Morris... London (Duckworth and Co....) 1913. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1913 (Nat. Nov. Jan (2) 1914, p. viii dated Oct 1913), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-282, \[283, index\]-287, 8 p. advert. *Copies*: K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO. *Ref*.: Anon., Geogr. J. (London) 44(2): 226-227. Aug 1914 (rev.). - Anon., Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 46(11): 857-858. 1914 (noticed). - Anon., J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 40: 589. 1915 (rev.). - *Ed. 2* \[enlarged\]: 1921... London (Duckworth and Co....), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-294, \[295-299, index\], *7 pl*. (phot.). Oct. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY (n.v.), USDA(2). ##### n.33.990. Linnaeus's species **Title** *Linnaeus's species* of *Jussieua*... Extracted from The Journal of Botany... 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1926 (in journal), p. \[10\]-13. *Copies*: B, BM, K, L. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 64(1): 10-13. 1926.