> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 550](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068792) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4807-1) LSID 4807-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700717) QID Q1700717 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Kirk, \[Sir\] John (1832-1922), Scottish colonial administrator, explorer and botanist; mainly active in eastern Africa; M. D. Edinburgh 1854; physician and naturalist on Livingstone's second Zambesi expedition (1858-1863); in Zanzibar 1866-1881, 1883-1887; thence onward in England. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Kirk* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Kirk*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; for duplicates see IH. The plants collected by him on the Livingstone Expedition, are also at [[Collection K|K]]. First set of plants from Turkey at [[Collection E|E]]. *Ref*.: Exell, A. W, Fl. zambesiaca 1: 35-37. 1960 (itin. Afr.). - Hedge, I. C. and J. M. Lamond, Ind. coll. Edinburgh 98. 1970. - Hepper, F. N. and F. Neate, Plant coll. West Africa 45. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 456-457; Backer p. 303; Barnhart 2: 294; BB p. 175; Bossert p. 212; CSP 3: 662, 8: 78-79, 10: 403, 16: 289; Desmond p. 361-362; Hortus 3: 1197 ("Kirk, J."); IH 2: 363; Kew 3: 266; Rehder 5: 455; SO 3404; Tucker 1: 389; Zandered. 10, p. 678. - Anon., J. Bot. 60: 69. 1922; J. Bot. 71: 206. 1933; Nature 109: 114-115. 1922. - Coupland, R., Kirk on the Zambesi, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1928. - D.P., Proc. R. Soc. B. 94: xi-xxx. 1923. - Exell, A. W. and Wild, H., Flora zambesiaca 1(1). 1960. - Foskett, R., edit., The Zambesi doctors: David Livingstone's letters to John Kirk 1859-1872, Edinburgh 1964, 187p. (portr.). - Hill, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1922: 49-63. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 134: 45-47. 1922 (brief bibl.). - Livingstone, D. & C, Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries, London, John Murray, 1865. - Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Mag. dedic. 1827-1927: p. 238. 1932 (portr.), (vol. 113 of Bot. Mag. dedicated to him, 1 Dec 1887). - White, A. and B. L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 1: 26-27, 147. 1933. - Wild, Kirkia 1: 5-11. 1960 (portr.). #### Eponymy (genus) *Kirkia* D. Oliver (1868); *Pleiokirkia* Capuron (1961); (journal): *Kirkia*. Journal of the Federal Herbarium, Salisbury Rhodesia and Nyassaland. Salisbury. Vol. i-x. 1960-x. *Note: Kirkoria* Zalessky (1937) is dedicated to the author's "grand père du côté maternel J. V. Kirkor."