> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 665](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355752) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6794-1) LSID 6794-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361900) QID Q361900 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Murchison, Roderick Impey (1792-1871), British palaeontologist; director of the British geological survey. **Abbreviated name**: *Murch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Murch.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. Palaeobotanical material at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 305-306; BM 3: 1379-1380, 7: 885; CSP 4: 548-553, 8: 472-473, 12: 527, 17: 426; DNB 3: 317; Herder p. 55; ME 2: 343; PH 567; Quenstedt p. 306; Rehder 5: 603. - Allibone, S. A., Crit. Dict. Engl. lit. 1387. 1870. - Anon., Geol. Mag. 8: 481-490. 1871 (portr., bibl.) (from the Times); Quart. J. Geol. Soc., London 28: 37. 1872 (Murchison Geological Fund). - Breure, A. S. H. & J. G. de Bruijn, eds., Leven werken J. G. S. van Breda 407, 417. 1979. - Clarke, J. M., James Hall of Albany 562 \[index\]. 1923. - Geikie, Arch., Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, London 1875, reprint 1971. - Gilbert, E. W. & A. Goudie, Geogr. J. 137: 505-511. 1971 (bibl., portr.). - Göppert, H. R., Nova Acta Leop. 27: 441. 1860 (epon.). - Helmersen, G. v., Bull. Acad. Imp. St. Pétersb. 17: 295-307. 1872. - Huxley, L., Life letters J. D. Hooker 2: 557 \[index\]. 1918. - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 240. 1863, 3: 950. 1898 (b. 19 Feb 1792, d. 22 Oct 1871). - Zittel, K. A. von, Hist. geol. palaeontol. 553 \[index\]. 1901. #### Note For Murchison's famous *The Silurian system* (1839) (later editions as "Siluria") see e.g. BM 3: 1380, Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 294-295 and e.g. J. D. Dana, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 39: 167-180. 1890 (Sedgwick and Murchison), and J. C. Thackray, Trans. Woolhope Natural. Field Cl. 42: 186-193. 1979 (n.v.). #### Eponymy *Murchisoniles* H. R. Göppert (1860).