> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 46](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189479) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7314-1) LSID 7314-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4385599) QID Q4385599 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pantling, Robert (1856-1910), British botanist; trained at Kew as a gardener; assistant Cinchona Dept., Bengal, 1879; curator Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta Dec 1879; at the Cinchona Dept. 1880; from 1897 as deputy superintendent. **Abbreviated name**: *Pantl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pantl.*\] #### Herbarium and types Important sets at [[Collection CAL|CAL]] and [[Collection K|K]]; other material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection W|W]] (material of Pantling and King). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 47; BB p. 235; BM 4: 1509; Desmond p. 477; Hortus 3: 1201 ("Pantl."); IH 1 (ed. 7): 339, 2: (in press); Kew 4: 224; Morren ed. 10, p. 144; NI 256, 1051, 1052 (alph.); SK 1: 400; TL-2/3660; Tucker 1: 537; Urban-Berl. p. 380. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Kew Guild 2: 491-492. 1910 (portr.); Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 24: 101-103. 1911 (err. "Pant*h*ing"). #### Composite works see G. King, for Pantling and King, *The Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya*, 1898 (see e.g. J. Bot. 36: 498-499. 1898 and TL-2/3660). #### Eponymy *Pantlingia* Prain (1896). ### Publications ##### n.7289. Orchids from Sikkim **Title** Some new *Orchids from Sikkim*... Calcutta (printed at the Baptist Mission Press) 1895. Oct. **Notes** *Senior author*: George King (1840-1909). *1*. 1895, p. \[1\]-16, reprinted and to be cited from J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 64(2): 329-344. 1895 (vol. t.p. 1896). *2*. 1896, p. \[17\]-38, id. 65(2): 118-134 (also 107). 1896 (vol. t.p. 1897). *Copy*: FI. – Preliminary publ. for TL-2/3660, Orch. Sikkim-Himalaya, q.v.