> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 285](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212327) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/27698-1) LSID 27698-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12372096) QID Q12372096 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thomson, Paul William (1892-1957), Estonian botanist and quaternary geologist; teacher at a gymnasium in Dorpat 1921-1932; lecturer in geology and paleontology at the University of Dorpat 1928-1939, also connected with the Experiment Station of the Estonian peat-bog association at Tooma nr Vägera; from 1941-1945 director of the Geological-palaeontological Institute at Tosen; geologist with the Amt für Bodenforschung Krefeld from 1947. **Abbreviated name**: *P.W. Thomson* \[standard form in IPNI: *P.W.Thomson*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 379; Biol.-Dokum. 18; Hirsch p. 299. #### Biofile - Lannus, P., Ann. Soc. Tart. Res. nat. ser. nov. 3: 175-179. 1963. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 7a(4): 671f. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 519. 1977. - Schmidt, W., Geol. Jahrb. 75: xi-xii. 1959 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Terasmae, J., Geol. För. Stockh. Förh. 80: 492. 1958. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 29. 1936, 3: 99, 355. 1937, 4: 277. 1938, 7: 234. 1943. - Welding, O., Deutschbalt. biogr. Lex. 791-792. 1970 (b. 23 Dec 1891, d. 13 Dec 1957; detailed curr. vit., further biogr. refs.). #### Eponymy *Thomsonia* K. Mädler (1954); *Thomsonipollis* W. Krutzsch (1960); *Thomsonisporites* G. Leschik (1956). ### Publications ##### n.14.262. Die regionale Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wälder Estlands **Title** *Die regionale Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wälder Estlands*... Dorpat 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929, p. \[1\]-87, \[88\]. *Copies*: B, LC. – Issued as Act. Comm. Univ. Tartuens. A-17(2). 1929. (1930 in compl. journal). ##### n.14.263. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der fossilen Flora des Mitteldevons in Estland **Title** *Beitrag zur Kenntniss der fossilen Flora des Mitteldevons in Estland*... Tartu 1940. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1940, p. \[1\]-24, *pl. 1-7. Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Tartu Ülikooli Loodusuurijate seltsi Aruanded 45: 195-216. *pl. 1-7.* 1940.