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### Author
Nowell, John (1802-1867), British handloom weaver and bryologist at Todmorden, Yorkshire.
**Abbreviated name**: *Nowell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Nowell*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection TOD|TOD]] (not traced); further material at [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 15; BB p. 231; BL 2: 275, 696; BM 3: 1454; Clokie p. 218; Desmond p. 469 (q.v. for biogr. refs.); De Toni 1: xciii, 2 lxxxvii; IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 167; Moebius p. 105; Rehder 5: 628; TL-2/262; Tucker 1: 524.
- Crump, W. B., & C. Crossland, The flora of the parish of Halifax lx-lxi. 1904 (d. 28 Oct 1867; mentions obit. in The Manchester Guardian 5 Nov 1867).
- Dallman A. A. and M. H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 83, 231. 1909.
- Hedge, I. C., & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 115. 1970 (bryo. E).
- Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 71. 1957 (herb. formerly at TOD).
- Scott, L. I., The Naturalist 879: 155-156. 1961.
- Shaw, G. A., The Naturalist 924; 5-6. 1973.
#### Composite works
The mosses of the county, *in* J. G. Baker and J. Nowell, *Suppl. fl. Yorkshire*, see TL-2/262 under H. Baines.
#### Eponymy
*Nowellia* Mitten (1870). *Note*: *Nowellia* F. L. Stevens (1924) was named in honor of W. Nowell, a researcher on fungi in Trinidad.