> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 130](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189601) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7440-1) LSID 7440-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21522733) QID Q21522733 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pearsall, William Harrison (1860-1936), British schoolmaster and botanist at Dalton-in-Furness until 1925; retired to Kent; secretary of the Botanical Society of the British Isles 1931-1936. **Abbreviated name**: *Pearsall* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pearsall*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection SLBI|SLBI]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 60; BJI 2: 132; BL 2: 252, 267, 701; Clokie p. 222; Desmond p. 485; Hirsch p. 227; IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 257-258. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 263. 1976. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 427 \[index\]. 1980. - Dallmann, A.A., ed., North West Natural. 11(4): 375-376. 1936 (obit.). - Hall, P.M., J. Bot. 74: 352-353. 1936 (brief bibl.), Bot. Soc. Exch. Cl. Brit. Isl. Rep. 11(3): 211-212. 1936 (obit., b. 6 Jun 1860, d. 12 Aug 1936) - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 131-132. 1977 (bibl.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 72. 1957 (coll.). - Martin, W.K. and G.T. Fraser, Fl. Devon 779. 1939. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1 161, 168, 175. 1955, 2: 193. 1936, 3: 153, 154, 169. 1937. 4: 181, 273, 534. 1938, 5: 168, 426. 1939, 6: 22, 260, 300. 1941. - Woodhead, T.W., Naturalist, Yorks., Mar 1923:-113, 118. #### Composite works - (1) edited Salmon, C.E., *Fl. Surrey*, 1931. - (2) Edited *Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles, Report*, 1931-1935. - (3) With his son, William Harold Pearsall, *Phytoplankton of the British Lakes*, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 43: 55-73. 1925. #### Note For P's son William Harold Pearsall (1891-1964), plant ecologist, sometime editor of *J. Ecol*., professor of botany at Sheffield (1938-1944) and University College, London (1944-1957) see e.g. Desmond p. 485, GR p. 409 and Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. 17: 511-540. 1971.