> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 186](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189657) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7554-1) LSID 7554-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4359737) QID Q4359737 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pescott, Edward Edgar (1872-1954), Australian botanist, pomologist and historian; principal of a school of horticulture at Burley, Victoria 1909-1916; from 1917-1937 government pomologist and seed-tester in the victorian Department of Agriculture. **Abbreviated name**: *Pescott* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pescott*\] #### Herbarium and types Material coll. ca. 1900 in [[Collection MEL|MEL]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 72; Bossert p. 307 (b. 11 Dec 1872; d. 31 Jul 1954); HR; Kew 4: 280. #### Biofile - Hyam, G.N., Vict. Natural. 71: 166-168. 1954 (obit.). - Willis, J.H., Vict. Natural. 66: 103-104, 126. 1949. - Young, L., Vict. Natural. 71: 87. 1954 (obit.). ### Publications ##### n.7740. A census of the genus Acacia in Australia **Title** *A census of the genus Acacia in Australia*... \[s.l.n.d., 1914\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Census Acacia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1914, p. 1-24. *Copy*: USDA. – No. 7741 has not been used. ##### n.7742. The orchids of Victoria **Title** *The orchids of Victoria*... Melbourne (The Horticultural Press Pty, Ltd.) 1928. **Abbreviated title**: *Orchid. Victoria*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1928, p. \[1\]-92, \[93\], \[1, 2, suppl.\], *1 col. pl.* in text, *14 uncol. photos. Copy*: G. – Preceded by a series of 9 papers with the same title in the Victorian Naturalist 1926-1927.