> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 69](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258547) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19019-1) LSID 19019-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4722695) QID Q4722695 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fryer, Alfred|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Fryer, Alfred (1826-1912), British botanist, born 25 Dec 1826 in Chatteris (Cambs.), attended school in Leicester where he formed a friendship with Henry Walter Bates, friendly with several of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, returned to his home in 1848, aimed to publish a flora of Huntingdonshire in 1883 but focused mainly on *Potamogeton*, F.L.S. 1898, died 26 Feb 1912 in Chatteris ("He grew up an unpractical man, fond of poetry and general literature..." *fide* Druce, 1913, p. 196). **Abbreviated name**: *Fryer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fryer*\] #### Herbarium and types Potamogetonaceae: [[Collection BM|BM]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection BEL|BEL]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WAR|WAR]], [[Collection YK|YK]]. – Mss. materials in the Natural History Museum (London), Oxford Univ. (Dept. of Plant Sciences) and Yale Univ. Library, New Haven, Conn. (Fryer family papers). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 212; Barnhart 2: 15; BB p. 117; Blunt ed. 2: 268; BM 2: 629, 6: 350; Bossert p. 135; Clokie p. 168; CSP 2: 737, 15: 158, 176; Desmond p. 241, ed. 2: 266; DNB 21: 116-117. 2004; GFB p. 95; IH 2: 212; Kent p. 54, ed. 2: 145; Kew 2: 351; Kew List p. 24; NI 2: 63; Portr. 3: 454; TL-1: 159-160; TL-2/1: 894, 2/3: 948 (index). #### Biofile - Babington, C.C., 1897. Memorials: 472. - Bennett, A., 1912. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 124: 46-47. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 402. (index) - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 106; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 156. - Druce, C.C., 1913. Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Soc. Brit. Isles 3: 195-201. (bibl.) - Evans, A.H. & J. Britten, 1912. J. Bot. 50: 105-110. (portr.) - Franks, J.W., 1973. Manchester Mus. Publ., new ser., no. NS.1.73: 2, 14. - Gibson, J.A. & E.C. Nelson, 2001. Cumulative index Archives Nat. Hist.: 58. - Gilbert, J.L., 1972. Ann. Rep. Huntingdon. Fauna Flora Soc. 24: 12-13. (*fide* Kew Record) - Mears, J.A., 1981. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 150. - Preston, C.D., 1988. Arch. Nat. Hist. 15: 15-33. (bibl., portr.) - Preston, C.D., 1988. Watsonia 17: 23-35. (bibl., analysis of F.'s *Potamogeton* taxa) #### Note Fryer's principal contribution, *Potamoget. Brit.*... \[1898\]-1915 (TL-2/1, nr. 1908), was treated earlier but the entry can be amended as follows: *Co-authors*: Bennett, Arthur (1843-1929), see TL-2/Suppl. 2: 72-73 and IH 2: 67-68; Evans, Arthur Humble (1855-1943), see TL-2/Suppl. 6: 434-435 and IH 2: 187 (as "Arthur Armble"). *Microfiche*: Westport, Conn. (Meckler/Chadwyck-Healey Publishing), \[1987?\], 3 microfiches (Plant taxonomic lit. microfiche coll., "1733A3-1735D2"). *Copy*: MO. ### Publications ##### n.35.813. hybridity **Title** Supposed *hybridity* in *Potamogeton*... Reprinted from the "Journal of Botany"... 1890. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1890 (in journal), p. \[1\]-7. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 28(6): 173-179. 1890. ##### n.35.814. Notes **Title** *Notes* on *pondweeds*... Reprinted from the Journal of Botany... 1890. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1890 (in journal), p. \[1\]-3. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 28(6): 225-227. 1890. *Note*: This is one of a series of publications by Fryer under the same title; no offprints have been seen of the other titles. ##### n.35.815. new hybrid Potamogeton **Title** On a *new hybrid Potamogeton* of the fluitans group... Reprinted from the Journal of Botany... 1890. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1890 (in journal), p. \[1\]-6, *pl. 299* (uncol. lith.). *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 28(11): 321-326, *pl. 299.* 1890. ##### n.35.816. Potamogeton undulatus **Title** *Potamogeton undulatus*, Wolfgang, in *Stirlingshire*... Edinburgh \[Reprinted from the Annals of Scottish Natural History\] 1892. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1892 (p. \[115\] & in journal), cover-t.p., p. \[115\]-119. *Copy*: K. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1: 115-119. 1892.