> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 302](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265499) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/941-1) LSID 941-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5937120) QID Q5937120 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bommer, Joseph (Jean) Édouard|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bommer, Jean-Édouard (1829-1895), Belgian pteridologist, self-taught botanist, curator of the collections of the Jardin botanique de Bruxelles 1855, id. at the Jardin botanique national de Belgique from 1870, also from 1855 curator of the collections of the Société royale d'Horticulture de Belgique, from 1872 professor of botany at the University of Bruxelles. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Bommer* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Bommer*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BR|BR]], further material in [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 215 \[Joseph Édouard\] (b. 17 Nov 1829, Bruxelles, d. 19 Feb 1895, Bruxelles); BM 1: 193; CSP 1: 470, 7: 214, 12: 99, 13: 668; IF p. 682; IH 2: 84; Jackson p. 150, 417, 502; JW 1: 452; Kew 1: 292; Langman p. 147; Rehder 5(index): 98; TL-2/1: 268-299 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 94. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 18(Bibl.): 192. 1872 (apptd. prof. bot. Univ. Bruxelles), 41: 624. 1895 (d. 19 Feb 1895); Rev. Hort. Belge Étrang. 21: 72. 1895 (d.); Fiddlehead Forum 8(2): 15. 1981 ("Who's who in Pteridia"). - Bommer, J.E., Bull. Soc. roy. Bot. Belg. 9: 418-455. 1870 (Notice sur le Jardin botanique de Bruxelles, mainly on the acquisition of the Martius Herbarium for BR, 63.000 specimens). - Crépin, F., Manuel lxv, lxix. 1860; Guide 431. 1878. - De Wildeman. É., Bull. Soc. belge Microsc. 21: 68-69. 1895 (obit.). - Errera, L., Bull. Soc. roy. Bot. Belg. 34: 7-21. 1895 (portr., bibl.). - Lawalrée, A., Bull. Jard. bot. nat. Belg. 49: 65-76. 1979 (seven letters by B. to S.-R. Lenormand; biogr. info.); Bull. Soc. roy. Bot. Belg. 112: 3-6. 1979 (on his work on ferns, *Monographie des Fougères* 1867, see TL-2/639). - Morton, C., Amer. Fern. J. 61(2): 70-71. 1971 (Adiantum mss. by B. at US). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 87. 1903, 3(3): 73. 1905 (on portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Contributed *Fungi* (with Rousseau), *in* Th.A. Durand and H. Pittier, *Prim. fl. Costaric.* 1(3): 81-96. 1896. − See TL-2/1592. - (2) Idem *Filices* (with H. Christ), *in* id. 1(3): 97-179. 1896 #### Note *Monographie de la classe des Fougères* 1867, TL-2/630, also available as IDC 7164. ### Publications ##### n.21.960. Note sur le Gagea spathacea **Title** *Note sur le Gagea spathacea*, plante nouvelle pour la flore belge... Académie Royale de Belgique... \[1856\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1856 (reprint at BR signed by author 19 Aug 1856), p. \[1\]-3. *Copy*: BR. − Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Acad. roy. Belg., Sci. 23: 756-757. 1856. ##### n.21.961. Note sur les poils des fougères **Title** *Note sur les poils des fougères* et sur les fonctions de ces organes... \[Extrait des Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique... \[1862\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1862 (in journal), p. \[1\]-13. *Copy*: BR. − Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. roy. Bot. Belg. 1(1): 91-101. 1862. *Ref*.: Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 21(19): 153-154. 8 Mai 1863 (rev.). ##### n.21.962. Des matières colorantes des feuilles **Title** *Des matières colorantes des feuilles*... Extrait du Bulletin du Congrès International de Botanique et d'Horticulture... 1865. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1865 (read at Amsterdam Apr 1865), p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: G. − Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. Hortic. Amsterdam 410-417. 1865 (see also p. 154-157). ##### n.21.963. Considérations sur la panachure et la coloration des feuilles **Title** *Considérations sur la panachure et la coloration des feuilles*... Gand (Imprimerie C. Annoot-Braeckman,...) 1867. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1867 (text signed p. 14: 5 Sep 1866), p. \[1\]-14. *Copy*: G. − Reprinted and to be cited from Arch. cosmolog., éd. Alphonse Dubois, 1: 13-25. 1867. *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 14(Bibl.): 168-169. 15-31 Dec 1867 (rev.). ##### n.21.964. Les platanes **Title** *Les platanes* et leur cultures... Bruxelles (Mayolez, libraire-éditeur...) 1869. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr-Jun 1869 (Soc. bot. France rd. copy 10 Aug-12 Nov 1869), p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-2 *(uncol. liths.). *Copies*: G, L. − Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Hort. Belgique 3(7): 117-124, *pl. 1-2.* Apr, 3(8): 137-143. Mai, 3(9): 153-159. Jun 1869. *Ref*.: Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 16(Bibl.): 181. late Nov-early Dec 1869 (brief rev.). ##### n.21.965. Notice sur le Jardin botanique de Bruxelles **Title** *Notice sur le Jardin botanique de Bruxelles*... Gand (Imprimerie C. Annoot-Braekman,...) 1871. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1871, p. \[1\]-31. *Copy*: G. − Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. roy. Bot. Belg. 9: 418-444. 1870. − *Note*: The reprint consists also of "Acquisition du jardin botanique de Bruxelles" by B.-C. Du Mortier (p. 33-41) and "Rapport fait au Sénat..." (p. 42-43). Reprinted respectively from id.: 445-453, and 454-455. On p. \[5\] of the reprint it reads "Extrait du Bull.... p. 406-418" \[sic\]. (See e.g. Tucker p. 94, citing these wrong pages). ##### n.21.966. Filices novae **Title** *Filices novae*... Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier... 1896. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Konrad Hermann Heinrich Christ (1833-1933), see TL-2/1: 500-501. *Publ*.: Oct 1896 (in journal), p. \[1\]-12. *Copies*: S, U. − Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Herb. Boissier 4(10): 657-675. 1896.