> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 131](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189602) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7444-1) LSID 7444-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5722627) QID Q5722627 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pearson, Henry Harold Welch (1870-1916), English botanist; M.A. Cambridge 1900, D. Sc. ib. 1907; assistant curator Cambridge herbarium 1898-1899; assistant for India at Kew 1899-1903; from 1903-1916 Harry Bolus professor of botany at the South African College, Cape Town; founder of the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens of South Africa. **Abbreviated name**: *H. Pearson* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.Pearson*\] #### Herbarium and types Important sets at [[Collection BOL|BOL]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], and [[Collection SAM|SAM]]; further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection COI|COI]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KMG|KMG]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection STE|STE]], [[Collection WAG|WAG]]. #### Bibliography and biography BB p. 240; BJI 2: 132; BL 1: 29, 56, 237, 312; BM 4: 1537, 8: 993; Bossert p. 304; CSP 17: 753; Desmond p. 485-486; Hortus 3: 1201 (H. Pearson); IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 258-259; Langman p. 573; MW p. 381; Rehder 5: 656; TL-2/2448, 7055; Tucker 1: 545; Urban-Berl. p. 381; Zander ed. 10, p. 700, ed. 11, p. 798. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 75: 223. 1898 (asst. Cambridge), Bot. Jahrb. 26 (Beibl. 61): 4. 1899 (asst. Cambridge); 32 (Beibl. 72): 5. 1903 (appointment Cape Town); Bot. Not. 1917: 141 (d.); Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1916: 277-281 (obit., bibl.); Gard. Chron. 60: 238, 250. 1916 (obit., portr.); Magy. Bot. Lap. 15: 312. 1916; Nat. Nov. 25: 271. 1903 (prof. bot. Cape Town); Österr. bot. Z. 66: 408. 1916 (d.). - Bews, J.W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 13: 352-355. 1917 (obit., portr.). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 54: 375. 1916, 55: 62. 1917 ("The military occupation of South Africa by the Union Forces has afforded an opportunity for the preservation of Welwitschia..."). - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 83. 1978. - Evans, I.B.P., Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 7: 139-145. 1919 (obit.). - Exell, A.W., Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 2.26: 218. 1952 (pl. BM, K). - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 327. 1938 (dir. bot. gard. Kirstenb. 1913-1916). - Gossweiler, J., Bot. Soc. Brot. ser. 2. 13: 301. 1939. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 96, 275-276. 1981 (biogr., coll., portr.). - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 2: 24. 1918. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 23: 32. 1917 (death), 4: 68. 1898 (appointed Cambridge), 9: 76. 1903 (appointed Cape Town). - Moldenke, H.N., Plant Life 2: 75. 1946 (1948). - Levyns, M.H.B., Dict. S. Afr. biogr. 2: 536. 1972. - Nelmes & Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Ma. Dedic. 1827-1927, p. 346-347. 1932. (portr.). - Pearson, H.H.W., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 35: 375-390, *pl. 9.* 1902 (on Dischidia); Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1910: 372-380 (on natl. bot. gard. S. Afr.). - Phillips, E.P., S. Afr. J. Sci. 27: 55, 60, 65, 69, 71. - Pole Evans, I.B., Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 3: 139-145. 1918. - Seward, A.C., Nature 98: 211. 1916 (obit.), Ann. Bolus Herb. 2: 131-147. 1917 (obit., portr., bibl., b. 28 Jan 1870, d. 3 Nov 1916), Ann. Bot. 31: i-xviii. 1917 (id.), Proc. Linn. Soc. London 129: 57-60. 1917 (obit.); Proc. R. Soc. ser. B, 89: lx-lxvii. 1917. - Smith, Mathilda, J. Kew Guild 1917: 377-378. - White, A., and B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae, 36, 90, 1933, ed. 2, 106, 132, 461, 520. 1937 (portr.). #### Composite works - (1) *Verbenaceae, in* Harvey & Sonder, *Fl. cap.* 5(1): 180-224. Jun 1902, 225-226. Mai 1910; *Welwitschiaceae, in* id. 5(2, suppl.):1-3. 1933; *Gnetaceae, in* id. 6(2): 328-333. Nov. 1917; *Thymelaeaceae, in* id. 6(1, 2): 212-255. Dec 1910. - (2) Editor, *Annals of the Bolus Herbarium* 1-2(3), 1914-1917. - (3) Pearson's *On the collections of dried plants obtained in South-West Africa* by the Percy Sladen Memorial Expeditions, 1908-1911, were published in *Ann. S. Afr. Mus.* 9: 1-19. 28 Feb 1911, 21-90. 30 Mai 1912, 129-192. 30 Oct 1913, 193-272. (Apr 1915, 355-418. 30 Jun 1917. #### Dedication Botanical Magazine, vol. 140. 1914. #### Eponymy *Pearsonia* Dümmer (1912); *Pearsoniella* Fritsch et Rich (1924). ### Publications ##### n.7583. Gnetales **Title** *Gnetales*... Cambridge (At the University Press) 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gnetales*. **Notes** *Editor*: Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941), assisted by Mary Gladys Thoday (x-1943). *Publ*.: 1929 (p. vi: 16 Mai 1929; Nat. Nov. Apr 1930 portr. author), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\], \[1\]-194, *pl. 1-3. Copies*: BR, FI, G, L, MO, NY, U. *Ref*.: Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 68: 284-285. Sep 1930.