> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 3](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212091) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/27234-1) LSID 27234-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609869) QID Q21609869 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stirling, James (1852-1909), Australian geologist and botanist; land officer at Omeo, Victoria 1878; died in Riverside, California. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Stirling* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Stirl.*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection B|B]] (partly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]] (bryo.), [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]] (phan.), [[Collection MEL|MEL]], determined by F. v. Mueller. – Some *letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 331; BB p. 289; BL 1: 74, 75, 320; Bossert p. 384 (d. 25 Jun 1909); CSP 11: 501, 12: 705, 18: 966-967; Desmond p. 586 (b. 9 Jan 1852); HR (bibl.); Rehder 5: 825; Urban-Berl. 314. #### Biofile - Ferguson, J.A., Bibl. Australia 3: 64, 65. 1951, 7: 442-443. 1969. - Maiden, J.H., Rep. Australas. Ass. Adv. Sci. 13: 234. 1911 (bibl.). - Mueller, F. v., Vict. Natural. 6: 166-167. 1890 (brief note; *Helichrysum Stirlingi*). - Robert, W.C.H., Contr. bibl. Australia ed. 2. 3: 295. 1970. - Willis, J., Vict. Natural. 87: 145. 1970, 66: 126. 1949 (coll. in Australian Alps). #### Note Sir James Stirling (1791-1865) was the first lieutenant-governor of W. Australia, honored in botanical eponymy because he "advanced the study of Western Australian Plants (J.H. Maiden, J. West. Austral. nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 25-26. 1909). – James Stirling (1836-1916) collected mosses in Kent and owned a bryophyte herbarium which is at Tunbridge Wells Museum (Desmond p. 586, see also Bryologist 21: 96. 1919 and Proc. R. Soc. London ser. A. 93: xli-xlii). – John Stirling Stirling (1832-1900), Lieut.-Col., Royal Artillery, U.K., published *Notes on the flora of Stirlingshire* with R. Kidston (q.v.), 10 papers in Trans. Stirling nat. Hist. Arch. Soc. 1890/91-1899/1900 (see BL 2: 312). His herbarium is at STIU (on loan from STI; further material in LIV and NMW (see D.H. Kent & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 251. 1984). ### Publications ##### n.13.114. The cryptogamia of the Australian Alps **Title** *The cryptogamia of the Australian Alps*. Part i.... Royal Society of Victoria... 1885. **Abbreviated title**: *Crypt. Austral. Alps*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 9 Dec 1885 (date on cover), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: PH.