> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 218](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068460) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3981-1) LSID 3981-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21515876) QID Q21515876 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hobkirk, Charles Codrington Pressick (1837-1902), British (Yorkshire) banker, local historian, and bryologist at Huddersfield and Dewsbury; after retirement in 1897 at Horsforth and Ilkley. **Abbreviated name**: *Hobk.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hobk.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DSY|DSY]]; further material at [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] and [[Collection F|F]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 184; BB p. 150; BL 2: 277, 668; CSP 3: 370, 7: 992, 10: 242, 12: 336, 15: 874; Desmond p. 312; IH 2: 278; Jackson p. 559; Kew 3: 1; Langman p. 372; LS 12352; Rehder 5: 395; SBC p. 122 ("Hobk."); Tucker 1: 343. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1903: 34; J. Bot. 40: 400, 431. 1902; Proc. Linn. Soc. London 115: 30-31. 1903. - Hobkirk, C. C. P., Huddersfield: its history and natural history, 1859 (incl. list of plants on p. 173-205). - Husnot, T. H., Rev. bryol. 29(6): 131. 1902. - R. \[Thomas Rogers?\], The Naturalist 1903: 105-108 (portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Anonymous editor of *The Naturalist* 1864-1867; editor with George T. Porritt 1872-1884. - (2) *The London catalogue of British mosses*. Compiled for the Botanical Record Club by C. P. Hobkirk and H. Boswell, Welwyn, 1877, 11 p. (for ed. 2 see F. A. Lees). - (3) Hobkirk also Published "pure literature" under the pseudonym H. P. Carlton. #### Handwriting The Naturalist 1903: *pl. II.* ### Publications ##### n.2828. A synopsis of the British mosses **Title** *A synopsis of the British mosses*, containing descriptions of all the genera and species, (with localities of the rarer ones) found in Great Britain and Ireland, based upon Wilson's "Bryologia britannica", Schimper's "Synopsis", etc.... London (L. Reeve & Co.,...) 1873. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. Brit, mosses*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1873 (p. vi: Feb 1873), p. \[i\]-viii, \[viii\], \[1\]-196. *Copies*: B, BR, G, FH, MO, NY, USDA. – Subscription announcement: Bull. Soc. bot. France 19 (Bibl.): 97. Nov. 1872. *Ed. 2*: 1884 (p. viii: 1 Mai 1884; Bot. Zeit. 26 Sep 1884), p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix-xii\], err. slip, \[1\]-240. *Copies*: L, NY. – "*A synopsis of the British mosses* being descriptions of all the genera and species found in Great Britain and Ireland to the present date... second edition, revised, corrected, and entirely rearranged." London (L. Reeve & Co.) 1884. Oct.