> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 818](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355905) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7123-1) LSID 7123-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7792882) QID Q7792882 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Oldham, Thomas (1816-1878), British geologist, paleontologist and botanist; B. A. Dublin 1836; director of the Irish Geological Survey (1840-1850), of the Indian Geological Survey 1850-1876. **Abbreviated name**: *Oldham* \[standard form in IPNI: *Oldham*\] #### Herbarium and types material at [[Collection CAL|CAL]] and [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 310; Barnhart 3: 27; BB p. 233; BM 3: 1467; CSP 4: 672, 8: 528, 10: 953, 12: 545 17: 607; Desmond p. 471; DNB 42: 111-112; IH 2: (in press); Jackson p. 290; Quenstedt p. 319. - Anon., Bonplandia 6: 49. 1858 (cogn. Leopoldina: Aubert); Geol. Mag. dec. 2. 5(8): 382-384. 1878 (b. Mai 1816, d. 17 Jul 1878). - Burkill, I. H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 71, 119, 197. 1965. - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 985. 1898 (bibl.). - Sorby, H. C., Proc. Geol. Soc. London 35: 46-48. 1879 (d. 20 Jul 1878). #### Eponymy *Oldhamia*E. Forbes (1848). ### Publications ##### n.7049. The fossil flora of the Rajmahal series **Title** Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologica indica. Being figures and descriptions or the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India... 2.1. *The fossil flora of the Rajmahal series*, Rajmahal Hills, Bengal;... Calcutta (printed for the government of India sold by Thacker, Spink & Co.,...) 1862. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Foss. fl. Rajmahal ser.* **Notes** *Co-author*: John Morris (1810-1886). *Publ*.: 1862 (p. iii: Mar 1862), p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-52, *pl*., with text, *1-34*(liths. H. L. Frazer). *Copy*: NY.