> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 769](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190240) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8355-1) LSID 8355-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372423) QID Q3372423 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Richards, Paul Westmacott (1908-x), British botanist, bryologist and forest ecologist; studied at Univ. College London 1925-1927; at Trinity College Cambridge 1927-1933, fellow 1933-1937; Dr. phil. ibid. 1936; Dr. Sci. ib. 1954; demonstrator in botany Cambridge 1938-1945; lecturer 1945-1949; professor of botany University College of North Wales, Bangor 1949-1976; Gold medal Linnean Soc. London 1979. **Abbreviated name**: *P. Richards* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.W.Richards*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (on loan from [[Collection K|K]]), [[Collection NMW|NMW]] and private (musci); other material in many herbaria. #### Bibliography and biography BL 1: 244, 315; Bossert p. 331; Clokie p. 232; GR p. 412; IH 1 (ed. 1): 6, (ed. 2): 19, (ed. 3): 22, (ed. 4): 23, (ed. 5): 14, (ed. 7): 341; Kew 4: 461; Langman p. 625; NI 2: 831, 3: 30; Roon p. 94; SBC p. 130; SK 1: 434-435 (portr., bibl.), 4: cxlvi. #### Biofile - Anon., Nature 163: 354-3455. 1949 (app. Bangor). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.302. 1980. - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 139. 1977. - Jacobs, M., Fl. males. Bull. 33: 3365-3373. 1980 (biogr., bibl., b. 19 Dec 1908). - Kent, D.H., Hist. fl. Middlesex 27. 1975. - Lacey, W.S., Nature, Wales 16(2): 129-131. 1978; Bot. Soc. Brit. Isl. Welsh Reg. Bull. 30: 13-15. 1979. - Prance, G., Acta amaz. 1(1): 53, 56. 1971. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 516. 1977. - Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 90. 1966. - Steenis, C.G.G. J. van, Fl. males., Bull. 5: 125. 1949 (app. Bangor), 6: 159. 1950 (id.), 14: 625. 1959. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 2, 176, 188. 1936, 3: 2, 367, 425, 4: 81, 479, 533. 1938, 5: 260, 317, 318. 1939, 6: 261, 303. 1941. #### Note Author of the fundamental treatise *The tropical rainforest*, an ecological study, Cambridge 1952, xviii, 450 p., 15 pl., 2 charts, reprint 1957.