> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 219](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068461) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/34851-1) LSID 34851-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5343470) QID Q5343470 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hobson, Edward (1782-1830), British self-taught bryologist, entomologist and geologist at Manchester, correspondent of R. K. Greville and W. J. Hooker. **Abbreviated name**: *Hobs.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hobson*\] #### Herbarium and types Manchester Botanical Society; further material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]], partly as "*Musci britannici*, a collection of specimens of British mosses and hepaticae, collected in the vicinity of Manchester," 2 vols. Manchester 1818-1822, for details see Sayre 1975. *Ref*.: Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 339. 1975. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 184; BB p. 150; Desmond p. 312; DNB 27: 51; IH 2: 278. - Dallman and Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 76. 1909. - Moore, Mem. Lit. philos. Soc. Manchester ser. 2. 6: 297-324. 1842. - Pearson, Bryologist 23(3): 36-37. 1920 (on the brothers Edward and William H.). #### Eponymy *Hobsonia* M. J. Berkeley ex Massee (1891) is dedicated to Julian Campbell Hobson (*fl*. 1875), English military officer, collecting e.g. in India.