> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 330](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189801) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7817-1) LSID 7817-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21523088) QID Q21523088 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pollexfen, John Hutton (1813-1899), British physician and algologist; MD Edinburgh 1835, B.A. Cantab. 1843; ordained 1844, from then on clergyman at Colchester, East Wetton and from 1874-1899 vicar at the parish of Middleton Tyas. **Abbreviated name**: *Pollexf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pollexf.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection U|U]]; fossil algae at Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 96; BB p. 246 ("recte Pollexsen"); Desmond p. 499. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1900: 47 (death). - Batters, E.A.L., J. Bot. 37: 438-439. 1899 (obit., d. 5 Jun 1899) - Dickinson, C.I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 13. 1952. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 119. 1970 (algae at E). #### Eponymy *Pollexfenia* Harvey (1844).