> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 174](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212216) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10440-1) LSID 10440-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16737250) QID Q16737250 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tate, George (1805-1871), British linen draper, postmaster, paleobotanist and geologist at Alnwick; longtime secretary of the Alnwick mechanic's scientific institution and of the Berwickshire naturalist's club. **Abbreviated name**: *G. Tate* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Tate*\] #### Herbarium and types "Had museum of fossils" (Desmond); [[Collection HAMU|HAMU]] (fide Kent & Allen). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 361; BB p. 296; BL 2: 261, 722; BM 1: 89, 5: 2076; CSP 5: 915, 8: 1061; Desmond p. 599 (b. 21 Mai 1805, d. 7 Jun 1871); DNB 55: 377-378 (19: 377-378); Jackson p. 248; Tucker 1: 679. #### Biofile - Anon., Archeologia Aeliana ser. 3. 15: 104-108. 1918; Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 235: 107-108. 1964. - Boase, G., Modern English biography 3: 880. 1965. - Hodgson, J.C., Archeologia aeliana ser. 3. 15: 104-108. 1918. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 254. 1984. - Middlemas, R., Hist. Berwickshire Field Club 1869-1872: 269-280. 1872 (memoir, portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Contributed *The fossil flora of the mountain limestone formation*... to George Johnston (1797-1855), *Bot. East. bord*. 1853, p. 289-317; see TL-2/3378. - (2) *A sketch of the geology of Northumberland and Durham, in* J.G. Baker & G.R. Tate, *A new flora of Northumberland and Durham*, 1869 (see below under G.R. Tate).