> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 410](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355497) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6339-1) LSID 6339-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3160993) QID Q3160993 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Melvill, James Cosmo (1845-1929), British businessman and naturalist at Manchester; B. A. Cantab. 1868; D. Sc. Manchester 1908. **Abbreviated name**: *Melvill* \[standard form in IPNI: *Melvill*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection HWB|HWB]] (basis of his *Flora of Harrow*, 1864), [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] (later material). Dupl.: [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection HWB|HWB]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Melvill presented the major part of his herbarium, 42.000 species, to the Museum of Owens College, Manchester in 1904; this is now at [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]]. The British plants, cryptogams and grasses were retained by him; they are now at [[Collection HWB|HWB]] (often in poor condition). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 474; BL 1: 173, 309, 2: 252, 257, 690; BM 3: 1284, 7: 828; Clokie p. 209; CSP 8: 378, 10: 771, 12:498, 17: 151; De Toni 1: lxxxii; IH 1(ed. 6): 361; 2: 525; Jackson p. 253; Kew 3: 649; KR p. 500; LS suppl. 18164; PH 98; PR 6076; Rehder 5: 564; SO 2956, 3534; TL-2: see Hind, W. M.; Tucker 1: 478. - Anon., Manchester Museum Rep. 1929-30: 6-7. 1930. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 41: 415. 1903, 42: 391. 1904, 46: 272. 1908. - Druce, C. G., Bot. Soc. Exch. Cl. Br. Isl. Rep. 9: 94-96. 1930; Fl. Berkshire clxxvii. 1897. - Ewan, J., *in*R. W. Long & O. Lakela, Fl. trop. Florida 5-6. 1971. - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 109. 1970 (pl. E). - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 45 (pl. K). - Jackson, J. W., Nature 124: 921. 1929. - Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 69. 1957 (herb.); Hist. Fl. Middlesex 23. 1975. - Melvill, J. C., *in*Museum handbooks, Manchester Museum Oneis College publ. 54. 1904, 20 p. (herb.). - Rendle, A. B., J. Bot. 67: 344. 1929. - Riley, N. D., Entomologist 63: 96. 1930 (obit., b. 1 Jul 1845, d. 4 Nov 1929). - Smith, A. C., Fl. vit. nova 1: 80. 1979 (Fiji coll. 1962). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3: 5, 84. 1902 (on this list of phan. of Key West), 5: 8. 1908. - Watson, H. C., Topogr. Bot. ed. 2. 550. 1883 (mss. pl. Montgomeryshire). - Weiss, F. E., J. Bot. 68: 20-22. 1930; Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc. 74: ii-iv. 1930; Northwestern Naturalist 5: 150-156. 1930 (portr., bibl., d. 4 Nov 1929); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 142: 211-213. 1931 (obit.). - Western, W. H., Lancashire Natural. 4: 323-329. 1912 (b. 1 Jul 1845; appreciation, portr., descr. herb.). ### Publications ##### n.5817. The flora of Harrow **Title** *The flora of Harrow*by J. C. Melvill. With notes on the birds of the neighbourhood,... London (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), Harrow (Crossley and Clarke) 1864. Duod. (in sixes). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Harrow*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jul-Oct 1864 (p. vi: Jun 1864; BSbF Nov 1864; J. Bot. Nov 1864), map, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-127. *Copies*: G, MO, NY. – Drawn up by Harrow boys "from a very strong desire to promote at Harrow an interest in natural history" (pref.). Melvill was at the time a pupil at Harrow. In compiling the flora he had the assistance of W. M. Hind. *Ed. 2*: 1876 (J. Bot. Jan 1877), map, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-176. *Copy*: NY. – "A new and enlarged edition revised and edited by the Rev. W. M. Hind \[William Marsden Hind (1815-1894)\], London (Longmans, Green & Co.), Harrow (Samuel Clarke...) 1876. 12-mo. (in sixes). *Ref*.: Seemann, J. Bot. 2: 350-352. 1864 (rev.).