> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 380](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355467) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6263-1) LSID 6263-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5877899) QID Q5877899 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Maw, George (1832-1912), British manufacturer of encaustic pottery at Brosely, Staffordshire; amateur naturalist, artist, geologist, and botanist; collected in the Near East and North Africa. **Abbreviated name**: *Maw* \[standard form in IPNI: *Maw*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (Crocus types); further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 359; Barnhart 2: 465; BB p. 211-212; BJI 1: 39; Blunt p. 238; BM 3: 1271; CSP 4: 303, 8: 360-361, 10: 751-752, 12: 494, 17: 108; Desmond p. 430; GF p. 67; Herder p. 54, 285; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Maw"); IH 2: 527; Kew 3: 632; Morren ed. 10, p. 74; MW p. 311; NI 1316; Plesch p. 331; Quenstedt p. 285; Rehder 5: 557; Saccardo 1: 108; Sotheby 519; TL-2/2982; Tucker 1: 472; Urban-Berl. p. 373; Zander ed. 10, p. 690, ed. 11, p. 787. - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 219, 238. 1967. - Anon., Nature 88: 561. 1912; Nat. Nov. 34: 191. 1912 (d. 7 Feb 1912); Quart. J. Geol. Soc. 68: lxii-lxiii. 1912; The Times 8 Feb 1912. - Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 28, 33-35, 38. 1969. - Cosson, E., Comp. fl. atl. 1: 70-71. 1881 (itin. Algeria). - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 109. 1970 (pl. E.). - Huxley, L., Life letters J. D. Hooker 2: 556. 1912. - J. G. B., Bull. misc. inf. Kew 1912: 155-156. - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 45 (pl. K). - Martin, G. K. and G. T. Fraser, Fl. Devon 773. 1939. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NM) 1: 167. 1904 (*Crocus coll.*) - Nelmes & Cuthbertson, Curtis's Bot. Mag. Dedic. 187-188. 1932 (portr., dedic., b. 10 Dec 1832, d. 7 Feb 1912). - Poggendorff, J. C, Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 388. 1898 (bibl.). - Roth, G., Bot. Jahrb. 9: 17-18. 1887. - Stapf, O., Proc. Linn. Soc. 124: 62-63. 1912 (b. 10 Dec 1832, d. 7 Feb 1912). - Stearn, W. T., R. Hort. Soc, Exhib. manuscr. book 1954, p. 48-49. #### Handwriting Candollea 31: 357-358. 1976. ### Publications ##### n.5721. A monograph of the genus Crocus **Title** *A monograph of the genus Crocus* by George Maw... with an appendix on the etymology of the words crocus and saffron by C. C. Lacaita... London (Dulau and Co.) 1886. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Monogr. Crocus*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul-Sep 1886 (p. viii: 30Jun 1886; Nat. Nov. Oct(2) 1886; Bot. Zeit. 29 Oct 1886), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-326, \[i\]-xx, \[1-10, index\], *pl. A-D, 1-14, 14b, 15-16, 18-26, 26b, 27-29, 29b, 29c, 29d, 30, 31, 31b, 32-35, 35b, 36-47, 47b, 48-55, 55b, 56, 56b, 57-59, 59b, 60-67*, text figs. *1-12* map, 2 tabl. *Copies*: G, L, MO, NY, USDA; IDC 1005. – The plates are coloured lithographs of drawings by the author; the originals are at K. Plate 17 was never published. *Facsimile ed*.: announced but not yet published by Asher (1974). *Ref*.: Schönland, Bot. Centralbl. 29: 136-139. 1887. - Sotheby no. 519.