> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 320](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066660) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11704-1) LSID 11704-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11165304) QID Q11165304 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Williams, Llewellyn (1901-1980), British-born American botanist and explorer; B.S. Univ. Wales 1923; assistant wood technologist Field Museum, Chicago 1926-1930, assistant curator economic botany 1930-1935, curator from 1935-1938, 1940-1941; on the Field Museum's Peruvian-Brazilian expedition 1929-1930; active as explorer in various capacities in Venezuela 1939-1940, 1941-1942; from 1942-1945 as field technician in the Rubber Development Corporation in the Orinoco-Casiquiare basin; with the L.A. Dreyfus Company in tropical America, Africa and Asia 1945; consultant with Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. 1956-1960; from 1961 economic botanist U.S.D.A., Beltsville; ultimately in retirement at Randolph, Wisconsin. **Abbreviated name**: *Ll. Williams* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ll.Williams*\] #### Herbarium and types Main sets in [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection VEN|VEN]]. – Other material in [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection IAN|IAN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection U|U]]. – *Manuscripts*: H.H. litis, Madison, Wisconsin. *Field notes* in [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection VEN|VEN]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – *Wood samples* e.g. in Record Wood and Herbarium collections, Madison, Wisc. (vouchers in [[Collection F|F]]). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 499; BL 1: 153, 258, 324; Bossert p. 437; IH 1 (ed. 6): 366, (ed. 7): 346; Langman p. 805. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. ed. 6: 1548. 1938, ed. 7: 1945. 1944; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 539. 1969; Taxon 29: 701. 1980 (d.); Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisc. 26 Jun 1980 (b. 6 Mar 1901, d. 23 Jun 1980). - Huber, O. & J.J. Wurdack, Smiths. Contr. Bot. 56: 70-73. 1984 (coll. Venezuela; itin.). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world n. 330 (199b). 1984. - Prance, G., Acta amaz. 1(1): 63. 1971 (W. collected in Brazilian Amazonia 1955-1956). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 6: 172. 1941, 7: 43, 75, 133, 186. 1943. - Williams, Ll., Biographical sketch and list of publ., typescript litis, TL-2/files. #### Eponymy *Llewelynia* Pittier (1939). ### Publications ##### n.17.760. Woods of northeastern Peru **Title** *Woods of northeastern Peru*... Chicago, U.S.A. (Field Museum of Natural History) 1936. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Woods n.e. Peru*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 31 Dec 1936, p. \[1\]-587, map. *Copies*: B, G, HH, NY. – Issued as Bot. Ser. Field Mus. nat. Hist. 15, 1936; Field Museum publ. 377. ##### n.17.761. Arboles y arbustos **Title** *Arboles y arbustos* del Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexico... Buenos Aires (Imprenta y casa editora "Coni"...) 1939. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1939, p. \[i\], \[137\]-171. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Lilloa 4: 137-171-1939. ##### n.17.762. Maderas économicas de Venezuela **Title** *Maderas économicas de Venezuela*... Caracas (Cooperativos de artes graficas) 1939. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mader. econ. Venezuela*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1939, p. \[i\], \[1\]-97. *Copy*: HH. – Bot. técn. Min. Agr. Cria, Caracas, no. 2. ##### n.17.763. Exploraciones botánicas en la Guayana venezolana **Title** *Exploraciones botánicas en la Guayana venezolana*. I – El medio y bajo Caura... \[Caracas\] (Servicio botanico. Ministerio de Agricultura y Cria) 1942. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Explor. bot. Guay. venez.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1942, p. \[i-iii\], \[1-6, 6a caption to portrait\], portr., 7-467, 468, err., 2 maps, *53 pl. Copies*: HH, NY, PH, Welle.