> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 305](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189776) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7771-1) LSID 7771-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1971138) QID Q1971138 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pocock, Mary Agard (1886-1977), South African phycologist; B.S. botany London University 1908 (honors degree ibid. 1921), high school teacher at Cheltenham 1909-1912, at Wijnberg (Cape) Girl's High School 1913-1917; worked with A.C. Seward at Cambridge 1919-1921; temporary lecturer at various South African universities and colleges from 1923 onward; turned to algology 1928 (Ph.D. 1932 Univ. Cape Town), D.Sc. h.c. Rhodes Univ. 1967. **Abbreviated name**: *Pocock* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pocock*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GRA|GRA]]; duplicates at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BOL|BOL]], [[Collection COI|COI]], [[Collection KMG|KMG]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection RUH|RUH]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection STE|STE]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 313; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340; 2: (in press); Kew 4: 326; Roon, p. 88. #### Biofile - Exell, A.W. & G.A. Hayes, Kirkia 6(1): 99. 1967 (Zambesian coll. at PRE). - Exell, A.W. et al., Bol. Soc. Broter. ser. 2. 26: 218. 1952. - Guillarmod, A. J., The Bluestocking 31: 40. 1970 (n.v.), Forum bot. 15(1): 1-2. Jan 1977 (90th birthday), Phycologia 17(4): 440-445. 1978 (portr., bibl., b. 31 Dec 1886, d. 10 Jul 1977). - Gunn, M.D. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 283. 1981 (biogr. sketch, portr., coll.). - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 556. 1969 (coll.). - Levyns, M.R.B., Insnar'd with flowers 139, 140. 1977. - Riddelsdell, HJ., Fl. Glouc. cli. 1948. - White, F., C.R. AETFAT 4 : 199. 1962 (N. Rhodes. coll.). #### Note The second given name, Agard, derives from the maternal grandmother Ann Elizabeth Agard; the likeness to the name of her phycological predecessors Agardh was incidental. #### Eponymy *Pocockiella* G.F. Papenfuss (1943). *Note*: *Pocockia* Seringe ex A.P. de Candolle (1825) was probably named for Rev. Richard Pococke (1704-1765), English-born bishop, who earlier in life travelled and collected plants in Egypt and Arabia. *Pocockia* J.K. Lentin et G.L. Williams (1973) and *Pocockipites* D.C. Bharadwaj (1974) were named for S.AJ. Pocock (1928-x) Canadian geologist and palynologist.