> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 356](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259860) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2856-1) LSID 2856-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3679573) QID Q3679573 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fourcade, Henry \[Henri\] Georges \[George\] (1865-1948), French-born South African forester, surveyor, inventor and botanist, born 10 Jul 1865 in Bordeaux, resided in Yokohama, Japan where his father imported wine and other liqueurs ca. 1874-1877, returned to France for school ca. 1877, moved with his mother and sister to Cape Town ca. 1881, granted certificate in land surveying, asst., Cape Forest Dept. ca. 1882, assigned to Kynsna, seconded for special service to Natal, resigned from Civil Service 1913, worked the timber on his property at Witte Els Bosch (now Witelsbos), Cape Prov., visited Europe 1924-1925 (and again later), Fellow, Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 1927, Dr. h.c. 1930 Univ. of Cape Town and 1947 Univ. of S. Afr., also invented apparatus for aerial photography, died 19 Jan 1948 at Humansdorp (Cape Prov.), South Africa. **Abbreviated name**: *Fourc.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fourc.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BOL|BOL]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NBG|NBG]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]]. – Mss. materials at [[Collection K|K]] and Univ. of Cape Town (Fourcade Bequest, etc.). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 207; Barnhart 1: 562 (as "George"); CSP 15: 72; IH 2: 205; Portr. 1: 4 (sub no. 38), 3: 444; Tucker 3: 110. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 307. 1931. - Adams, L.P., 1975. Photogrammetric Record 8(45): 287-296. (n.v.) - Adams, L.P., 2001. Photogrammetric Record 17(98): 225-242. (n.v.) - Bolus, L., 1952. J. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 135-143. (portr.) - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, 1981. Bot. explor. S. Afr.: 157-159. (handwr., portr.) - Hertel, H. & S. Schrieber, 1988. Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 26: 311, 377. - Storrar, C.D., 1990. The four faces of Fourcade: a biography of a remarkable forester, land surveyor, botanist and photogrammetrist, Cape Town (Maskew Miller Longman): i-ix, 1-198. (bibl., portrs.) - Storrar, C.D., 1991. Photogrammetric Record 13(77): 753-764. (n.v.) #### Eponymy Mount Fourcade, Antarctica; Fourcade Museum, Witte Els Bosch. #### Outside our period *Check-list* of *flowering plants* of the divisions of *George, Knysna, Humansdorp*, and *Uniondale*... Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 20: 127 p. 1940 \[i.e. 1941\]. ### Publications ##### n.35.243. Contributions **Title** *Contributions* to the *flora* of the *Knysna* and neighboring divisions... Cape Town (Published by the Society) 1932. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1932 (issue date in serial), cover-t.p., p. \[75\]-102. *Copy*: K. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 21(1): 75-102. 1932.