> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 445](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258923) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13288-1) LSID 13288-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11705313) QID Q11705313 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Guilfoyle, William Robert (1840-1912), British-born Australian landscape gardener, botanist and civil servant, born 8 Dec 1840 in Chelsea (London), emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1853 with his family where his father, Michael Guilfoyle (1809-1884), established an active nursery business, attended Lyndhurst College, Glebe (Sydney), sailed (as "tourist") aboard H.M.S. *Challenger* in Pacific Ocean Mai-Oct 1868, farmed sugar cane and tobacco, Tweed River, n.e. New South Wales, appointed curator (i.e. Dir.), Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne 1873, and concentrated on transforming the gardens rather than on science as did his predecessor F. von Mueller, visited England and Europe 1890-1891 and 1896, retired because of ill health 1909, F.L.S., died 25 Jun 1912 in East Melbourne. **Abbreviated name**: *Guilfoyle* \[standard form in IPNI: *Guilf.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MEL|MEL]], duplicates [[Collection E|E]]; two albums of fern specimens also are in the Natl. Library of Australia. – Mss. materials in Univ. of Melbourne Archives. #### Bibliography and biography ADB(2) 4: 307-308; APN p. 247; Backer p. 246; Barnhart 2: 98; BB p. 133; BL 1: 64, 299; BM 2: 750, 6: 417; BN p. 175; Bossert p. 155; CSP 7: 863, 15: 521; Desmond p. 274, ed. 2: 303; Herder p. 164: HR; Kew 2: 528; Lenley p. 190; Morren ed. 2: 14, ed. 10: 149; Portr. 3: 513; Rehder 5(index): 350; Tucker 1: 306, 3: 128. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1912: 350-351. 1912. \[resigned as Dir., Royal Botanic Gardens Sep 1909\] - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 230; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 293; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 400. - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 151. - Fox, P., 2004. Clearings: six colonial gardeners and their landscapes...: 272 p. (portr.) (n.v.) - Gilbert, L.A., 1971. Botanical investigation of New South Wales 1811-1880, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of New England. Vol. 3: 7. - Hall, N., 1978. Botanists of the Eucalypts: 63. - Hazelwood, W.G., 1973. Camellia News 51: 31-32. (n.v.) - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 86. - Home, R.W. & G.J. McCarthy, 1988. Newslett. Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. 56: 11. \[Archives of Australian Science Database\] - Maiden, J.H., 1921. J. Proc. Roy Soc. N.S.W. 55: 160-162. - Pescott, R.T.M., 1975. W.R. Guilfoyle 1840-1912: the master of landscaping, Melbourne (Oxford Univ. Press): i-xvii, 1-153. (bibl., handwr., portrs.) - Smith, A.C., 1979. Flora vitiensis nova 1: 47, 49. #### Eponymy *Guilfoylia* F. Muell. (1873). ### Publications ##### n.37.430. Catalogue **Title** *Catalogue* of *plants* under *cultivation* in the *Melbourne Botanic Gardens*, alphabetically arranged... Melbourne (... John Ferres, Government Printer) 1883. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1883 (p. vi signed Apr 1883), p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-200, *4 pl*. (unnumb., uncol. lith.), 5 schemata (part. fold.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY (n.v.), US, USDA. ##### n.37.431. Catalogue **Title** *Catalogue* (descriptive) of *fibres, papers, carpological specimens*, etc.: forwarded to the Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888... Melbourne (Robt. S. Brain) 1888. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1888 (p. \[3\] signed Aug 1888), p. \[1\]-47. *Copies*: K (n.v.), MO (n.v.), US. *Microfilm*: Woodbridge, Conn. (Research Publications), 1990, 35 mm (Books of the fairs, reel 81, item 9). *Copy*: US (n.v.). ##### n.37.432. Fibres **Title** *Fibres* from *plants*, *indigenous* and *introduced*, eligible for industrial culture and experiment in *Victoria*... Melbourne (Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer) 1894. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1894, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-38, 6 lvs. (figs. 1-12, uncol. draw.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH-ECON, LC (n.v.), MO, USDA. ##### n.37.433. Descriptive notes **Title** *Descriptive notes* on *fibres*: prepared for the Greater Britain and Paris Exhibitions, from plants (indigenous and exotic) cultivated in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens... Melbourne (Robt. S. Brain) 1899. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1899, cover-t.p., p. \[i, pref.\], \[5\]-33. *Copies*: K (n.v.), MO. *Note*: The Paris Exhibition was the Exposition universelle internationale of 1900. ##### n.37.434. Australian plants **Title** *Australian plants* suitable for gardens, parks, timber reserves, etc.... Melbourne (Whitecombe & Tombs Limited) \[1909?\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: \[1909?\] (USDA copy rec'd. 1 Mai 1911), p. \[1\]-478, *214 pl*. (unnumb. phot.). *Copies*: BM (n.v., as "305 ill."), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NSW, NY (n.v.), USDA. *Ref*.: Anon., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 60: 444. Sep 1910. - Anon., Nature 87(2176): 37-38. 13 Jul 1911. - *Note*: There is controversy about the publication date (none on the t.p.), e.g. Blake & Atwood state "\[1911?\]" and the BM library cat. has it as "\[1911\]". The t.p. copied at NSW has a handwritten note at the bottom: "Published in 1909 according to information received from the Public Library Sydney". This note is initialed, possibly reading "N.W." \[but apparently involving three letters since there are three periods\] and dated "10/4/41" \[i.e. 10 Apr 1941\].