> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 305](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265032) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/434-1) LSID 434-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13225111) QID Q13225111 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bally, Peter René Oscar (1895-1980), Swiss botanist, educated in Mannheim, studied chemistry in Switzerland, employed at the secretariat of the League of Nations, Genève, travelled in Albania 1924 and India, sent to Tanganyika to collect new medical plants 1929-1930, salesman with Mobil Oil in Mombassa, later especially interested in native medical plants, later at the Coryndon Memorial Museum, Nairobi, Kenya 1938-1958, collecting widely in Eastern Africa 1933-1957, at the Conservatoire botanique, Genève 1958-1962, ultimately again in Nairobi, Dr. h.c. Basel 1973. **Abbreviated name**: *P. Bally* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.R.O.Bally*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection EA|EA]], [[Collection K|K]]. − Further material in [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection ZSS|ZSS]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 114; BL 1: 56, 57, 67; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 53; Kew 1: 148-149; Roon p. 14. #### Biofile - Anon., Flow. pl. Afr. 41(3-4): \[2 p.\]. 1972 ("1971"), (portr.); Asclepiadaceae 21: 22. 1980; Taxon 30: 373. 1981 (b. 9 Mai 1895, d. 21 Jun 1980). - Holmes, S.C., Cact. Succ. J. 53: 55. 1981 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Miller, A.G. et al., Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 45. 1982 (2 further publ. on Trop. East Afr. plants). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 39. 1981. - Pfennig, M., Kakt. andere Sukkul. 1980(11): 328-329 (obit., portr.). - White, A. and B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2. 15. 1937 \[index\]. #### Manuscripts Correspondence 1950-1966 with Gilbert W. Reynolds, now at HU (see M.T. Stieber et al., Huntia 4(1): 39. 1981). #### Outside our period *The genus Monandrium*, Bern 1961, 111 p., 5 maps, *32 pl*. (mostly col.). − See Taxon 10: 230. 1961. ### Publications ##### n.20.136. Heil- und Giftpflanzen **Title** *Heil- und Giftpflanzen* der Eingeborenen von *Tanganyika*... Dahlem bei Berlin (Fabeckstrasse 49. −...) 1938. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Heil- Giftpfl. Tanganyika*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 20 Apr 1938 (date on t.p.), p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-87, *pl. 1-19* (uncol. phot. and map). *Copy*: U. − Issued as Repert. Spec. nov. Regni Veg., Beih. 102, 1938.