> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 672](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333811) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9793-1) LSID 9793-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3103946) QID Q3103946 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Smith, Gerard Edwards (1804-1881), British clergyman and botanist; BA Oxon. 1829; curate at Sellinge (Kent) 1829-1830; vicar at Cantley (Yorks.) 1844-1846; id. at Osmaston (Derby) 1854-1871. **Abbreviated name**: *G.E. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.E.Sm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 292; BB p. 280; BM 4: 1946; Clokie p. 246; Desmond p. 567 (d. 21 Dec 1881); DNB 53(18): 43 (sic, as Gerard Edward S.); Herder p. 171; Hortus 3: 1204; IH 2: (files); Jackson p. 254; PR 8731, ed. 1: 9707; Rehder 1: 397; TL-2/3092; Tucker 1: 655; Zander ed. 11, p. 819. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2137. 1878. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1882: 30; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 224: 322. 1964; J. Bot. 20: 68. 1882, 21: 64. 1883 (herb. acquired by Univ. Coll., Nottingham). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 119.5. 1980. - Dawson, W.R., Smith letters 87. 1934. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 79. 1857 (herb. BM). - Moore, S., Fl. Cheshire lxxxix. 1899. - Painter, W.H., Contr. Fl. Derbyshire 7. 1889. - Shaw, G.A., Naturalist 103(944): 31-33. 1978 (letters to John Barton). - Watson, H.C., Topogr. Bot. ed. 2. 556. 1883. #### Composite works Preface to W.E. Howe, *Ferns Derbyshire* 1861, see TL-2/3092. ### Publications ##### n.12.196. A catalogue of rare or remarkable phaenogamous plants collected in South Kent **Title** *A catalogue of rare or remarkable phaenogamous plants collected in South Kent*: with descriptive notices and observations,... London (published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green...) 1829. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. S. Kent*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1829(p. 4: Feb 1829), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-78, *pl. 1-5* and 1 unnumb. (col. copp., pl. 2 and 5 by J. de C. Sowerby; others auct.). *Copies*: HH, MO, NY.