> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 461](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258939) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/37855-1) LSID 37855-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132667) QID Q3132667 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Guppy, Henry Brougham (1854-1926), English geologist interested in isls. and seed and plant dispersal by water, born 23 Dec 1854 in Falmouth (Cornwall), educated at King's School, Sherborne, Queen's College, Birmingham, Medical School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, M.B. 1876 and C.M., Edinburgh Univ., surgeon in Royal Navy 1876-1885, served on the China Station 1877-1880 and on the Australian Station 1881-1884, F.R.S.E. 1888, F.L.S. (Gold Medal) and F.R.S. 1918, died 23 Apr 1926 on board *El Kantara* in Martinique (remains interred at Seaton). **Abbreviated name**: *Guppy* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.B.Guppy*\] #### Note Not to be confused with Henry Guppy (1861-1948), librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (chiefly ferns), [[Collection BO|BO]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]]. – Corr. at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection K|K]] and Univ. of Edinburgh; mss. also at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 247; Barnhart 2: 101; BB p. 134; BL 1: 95, 115, 124, 299; BM 2: 753, 6: 418-419; CSP 10: 94, 15: 537; Desmond p. 276, ed. 2: 305; IH 2: 245; Kew List p. 28; Lenley p. 191; Plesch p. 246; Rehder 5(index): 352; SK 1: 205-206, 5: cclxxxii; TL-2/7: 634 (index); Tucker 1: 308, 3: 129. #### Biofile - Anon., Science, ser. 2, 63: 543. 1926; Bot. Soc. & Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 8: 92-93. 1927; J. Bot. 64: 161-162. 1927. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. Hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 406. (index) - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 107. - M., W.C. \[M'Intosh, W.C.?\], 1926. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 46: 362-364. - Mill, S.W. et al., 1988. Indexed bibl. flowering pl. Hawai'i: 63. (bibl.) - O\[liver\], F.W., 1926. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 139: 86-87. - Rendle, A.B., 1926. J. Bot. 64: 161-162. - Rendle, A.B., 1926. Nature 117: 797-798. - Rendle, A.B., 1927. Proc. Royal Soc., ser. B, 110(712): \[xxviii\]-xxix. (portr.) - Smith, A.C., 1979. Fl. vitiensis nova 1: 52. #### Composite works Contributed a chapter to J.C. Willis, *Age and area*... 1922 (TL-2/7, nr. 17.832). ### Publications ##### n.37.506. Solomon Islands **Title** The *Solomon Islands* and their natives... London (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.) 1887. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Solom. Isl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1887, frontisp. (part. col. map), t.p., p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-384, *10 pl*. (unnumb., 9 uncol. phot., 1 lf. sheet music). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), US, USDA. *Microfiche*: Cambridge (Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.), 2003, 5 fiches, 11×15 cm. (The Nineteenth Century. General Collection; N.1.1.15663). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Ann Arbor, Michigan (Univ. Microfilms International), 1975, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: LC (n.v.). *Note*: "List of plants collected in the islands of Bougainville Straits, Solomon group, during 1884", p. 294-305. ##### n.37.507. dispersal **Title** The *dispersal* of *plants*, as *illustrated* by the *flora* of the *Keeling* or *Cocos Islands* ... London... Victoria Institute... \[1889\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: \[1889\] (p. \[1\] "Paper to be read... February 3, 1890"), p. \[1\]-34. *Copies*: HH(2). – "Uncorrected proof–private and confidential" of article to be cited from J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 24: 267-306. 1890 \["1889"\]. *Variant copy*: \[s.d.\]... \[London?\] (Author's copy), cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-40, \[i-iv, adverts.\]. Copy: BM. *Note*: (1) Guppy's certificate of election to the Royal Society cites 1889 as the date of this publication. (2) An abstract appeared in the Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. London 1889: 696. ##### n.37.508. Polynesians **Title** The *Polynesians* and their *plant-names*... \[London\] (Harrison and Sons, Printers) \[1897\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: \[1897\], p. \[1\]-36, \[i-iv, adverts.\]. *Copy*: K. – "Uncorrected proof–private and confidential" of article to be cited from from J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 29: 135-170. 1897. *Note*: The paper was to be read before the Victoria Inst. on 2 Mar 1896. ##### n.37.509. Observations **Title** *Observations* of a *naturalist* in the *Pacific* between 1896 and 1899... London (Macmillan and Co., Limited)/New York (The Macmillan Company) 1903-1906. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*Vol. 1*\]: 1903 (pref. p. x dated Jun 1903), Vanua Levu, Fiji: a description of its leading physical and geological characters... frontisp. (uncol. phot.), t.p., p. \[iv\]-xix, \[xx\], \[1\]-392, *4 pl*. \[in text\] (uncol. phot.), 2 maps \[in text\] (part. col. lith.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO(2) (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US-HC, USDA (copy rec'd. 18 Dec 1903). *Vol. 2*: 1906 (pref. p. xi dated 8 Nov 1905), Plant-dispersal... frontisp. (uncol. phot.), t.p., p. \[iv\]-xxvi, \[xxvii-xxviii\], \[1\]-627, \[628\], *5 pl*. \[in text\] (uncol. lith., 4 with text on verso), 5 maps \[in text\] (3 part. col.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO(2) (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US-HC, USDA. *Ref*. \[vol. 2\]: F.H.H.G., Geogr. J. (London) 29(3): 34-342. Mar 1907 (rev.). ##### n.37.510. Plant-distribution **Title** *Plant-distribution* from an old standpoint... Being a paper read before the Victoria Institute... Author's copy... 1907. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1907 (p. \[1\] read 8 Apr 1907), cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-34, \[35-36, advert.\]. *Copies*: K (n.v.), US, USDA. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 1907. ##### n.37.511. Studies **Title** *Studies* in *seeds* and *fruits*: an investigation with the balance... London (Williams and Norgate) 1912. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1912, t.p. (pref. p. x dated 31 Jan 1912), t.p. \[=p. iii\], p. \[iv\]-xii, \[1\]-528. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), MO(2) (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US, USDA. ##### n.37.512. Notes **Title** *Notes* on the *native plants* of the *Azores* as illustrated on the slopes of the mountain of Pico... Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 4 Dec 1914 (in journal), p. \[305\]-321. *Copy*: K. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914(9): 305-321. 1914. *Ref*.: Mattfeld, J., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 59 (Lit.): 32. 1924. ##### n.37.513. Plants, seeds **Title** *Plants, seeds*, and *currents* in the West Indies and Azores\[:\] the results of investigations carried out in those regions between 1906 and 1914... London (Williams and Norgate) 1917. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. seeds currents*. **Notes** *Publ*.: early 1917 (pref. p. vi dated 23 Nov 1916), frontisp. (uncol. phot.), p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-531, \[532\], 3 maps \[in text\] (part. col., 1 fold.). *Copies*: BM, HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), L, LC (n.v.), MO(2) (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), U, US(2), USDA. *Note*: This work was awarded a Linnean Society Gold Medal. *Ref*.: Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 55(654): 163-164. Jun 1917 (rev.). - A.G.T., J. Ecology 6(2): 153-156. Jun 1918 (rev.). ##### n.37.514. Plant-distribution **Title** *Plant-distribution* from the *standpoint* of an *idealist*... Extracted... 1919. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1919 (read 7 Feb 1918), p. \[439\]-472. *Copies*: K, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 44: 439-472. 1919.