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### Author
Howitt, Godfrey (1800-1873), British physician (M. D. Edinburgh) at Leicester and Nottingham; to Australia 1839, practicing at Melbourne until 1869.
**Abbreviated name**: *Howitt* \[standard form in IPNI: *Howitt*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Melbourne University rd. H's entomological coll. and library.
*Exsiccatae*: Muscologia Nottinghamiensis*: or, a collection of mosses, found chiefly in the neighbourhood of Nottingham: arranged in fasciculi, with descriptions and occasional remarks. Fasc. 1-3, nos. 1-24, Nottingham (Bennett) 1883, issued together with William Valentine (x-1884). Set at [[Collection BM|BM]].
*Ref*.: Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 216. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 212; BB p. 157; BL 2: 262, 670; BM 2: 882; Desmond p. 326; GR p. 373, cat. p. 65; HR; Jackson p. 258; Kew 3: 50; LS 12725; PR 4295-4296; Rehder 5: 410.
- Hawksworth, D. L. & M. R. D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 14, 98. 1977.
- Horwood, A. R. and C. W. F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire and Rutland ccvii. 1933.
- Howitt, M. E. B., Victorian hist. Mag. 3: 1-24. 1913 (portr.).
- Howitt, R. C. L. & B. M., A flora of Nottinghamshire 16-17. 1963.
- Serie, P., Dict. Austral, biogr. 1: 457. 1949.
- Spalding, D. A. E., Sorby Record 2(4): 7. 1967 (n.v.).
### Publications
##### n.3099. The Nottinghamshire Flora
**Title**
*The Nottinghamshire Flora*. London 1839. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Nottinghamshire Fl.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1839, 124 p., map, (n.v.), copy at K. – "A flora of Nottinghamshire" was published privately in 1963 by R.C.L. and B. M. Howitt. *Copies*: MICH, MO, USDA; p. \[i\]-\[vii\], \[1\]-252, map.