> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 603](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355690) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6703-1) LSID 6703-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6140090) QID Q6140090 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Motley, James (x-1859), British civil engineer and botanist; collected in Malaysia 1852-1853; later at Borneo; murdered at Kampong Kalangan (Bandjermasin). **Abbreviated name**: *Motley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Motley*\] #### Herbarium and types British herbarium at [[Collection SWA|SWA]] (but not traced); Borneo and Singapore collections at [[Collection K|K]]; bryophytes from Indonesia (? Malaysia) are at [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection NY|NY]] (through herb. Mitten). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 382; Barnhart 2: 520; BB p. 222; BM 3: 1360 \[err. "1814-1892"\]; CSP 4: 495-496; IH 2: 563; PR (alph.); Rehder 5: 593; SK 1: 373 (itin., coll.); Tucker 1: 501. - Bennett, A., Naturalist 1903: 4 (herb, at SWA). - Burkill, I. H., Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 4: 128. 1927 (coll.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytogeographie 435. 1880 (coll. K). - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 112. 1970 (bryo. via herb. Mitten). - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 47 (coll. K). - Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 70. 1957 (herb, at SWA). - Riddelsdell, H. J., Naturalist 1902: 343-351 (account Brit. coll.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 372. 1975. - Watson, H. C, Topogr. Bot. ed. 2. 551. 1883 (mss. flora Carmarthen). #### Letters (from the East Indies) to W. J. Hooker and W. Mitten reproduced in W. J. Hooker, J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 7: 39-47, 78-84, 161-172, 257-269, 289-296. 1855, 9: 148-153. 1857. ### Publications ##### n.6361. Contributions to the natural history of Labuan **Title** *Contributions to the natural history of Labuan*,and the adjacent coasts of Borneo... London (John van Voorst,...) 1855. Oct.†. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. nat. hist. Labuan*. **Notes** *Co-author*; Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn (fl. 1855). *Publ*.: 2 Jul 1855 (part 1: all publ.), p. \[i\*\], \[1\]-62, \[63, prospectus\], *12 col. pl. Copies*: Natl. Libr. Scotland; PH.