> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 175](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212217) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10441-1) LSID 10441-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507563) QID Q1507563 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tate, George Henry Hamilton (1894-1953), British-born American zoologist and collector; field assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, New York from 1922-1931; American citizen 1927; M.A. Columbia Univ. 1931; asst. curator mammals 1931-1942, assoc. curator 1942-1946, curator 1946-1953; Dr. Sci. Univ. Montreal 1937; made 42 collecting expeditions in the tropics, made substantial botanical collections in South America. **Abbreviated name**: *G.H. Tate* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.H.Tate*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]] (orig.), [[Collection US|US]] (orig. Venezuela, Ecuador); further material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection US|US]]. – *Field notes* at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 361 (b. 30 Apr 1894, d. 24 Dec 1953); BM 8: 1288; Desmond p. 599; PH 186, 209, 450; SIA 208; Tucker 3: 304. #### Biofile - Acosta-Solis, M., Natural. viaj. ci. Ecuador 54. 1968. - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 5-8, 1933-1949; J. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 95. 1928 (Roraima pl. NY), 40: 9. 1939 (Venezuela pl. NY); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 44: 228-229. 1962 (portr.); The New York Times 28 Dec 1953 (obit., portr.). - Boom, B.M., Brittonia 33(3): 482-489. 1981 (on Tate's botanical collections, esp. in Bolivia and Peru). - Gleason, H.A., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 56: 391-408. 1929 (Tate coll. from Roraima). - Huber, O. & J.J. Wurdack, Smiths. Contr. Bot. 56: 66-67. 1984 (coll. itin. Venez. Amazonas). - Morrison-Scott, T.C.S., Nature 173: 190. 1954 (obit.). - Rusby, H.H., Phytologia 1: 49-80. 1934 (on plants from Bolivia Ladew Exp.). - Tate, G.H.H., Geogr. Rev. 20: 31-52 (Cerra Duida region Venezuela), 53-68 (Mount Roraima region) 1930; Ecology 13: 235-257. Jul 1932 (Life zones at Mount Roraima); Nat. Hist., New York 33: 81-94. 1933 (mountain by-ways of Bolivia). #### Eponymy *Tateanthus* Gleason (1931); *Neotatea* Maguire (1972).