> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 364](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189835) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7891-1) LSID 7891-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21523151) QID Q21523151 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Potter, Michael Cressé (1858-1948), British clergyman and botanist; BA Cambridge 1881; at Cambridge herbarium 1884-1889; professor of botany at Armstrong College, Newcastle, 1889-1925; from 1925-1948 in retirement at New Milton, Hampshire. **Abbreviated name**: *Potter* \[standard form in IPNI: *Potter*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 103 (b. 7 Sep 1858); BJI 2: 47; BL 2: 238, 704; BM 4: 1603; CSP 11: 53, 17: 983; Desmond p. 50 (d. 9 Mar 1948); Kelly p. 179; Kew 4: 349; LS 21152-21158a, 38031-38042, suppl. 22153-22154; Morren ed. 10, p. 74; Rehder 5: 684; Stevenson p. 1254; Tucker 1: 566. #### Biofile - Alexander, N.S., Nature 161: 673-674. 1948 ("... the last of the calorists" opposing first law thermodynamics). - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 51: 127. 1892 (prof. bot. Newcastle); Bot. Jahrb. 16 (Beibl. 37): 20. 1892 (prof. bot. Newcastle); Proc. Bournemouth nat. Sci. Soc. 38: 73. 1947/1948 (obit., b. 7 Sep 1858; stressed 1900 that bacteria may be pathogenic to plants). - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 134. 1977. - Ramsbottom, J., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 30: 3, 4, 13. 1948. - Thomas, M., Nature 161: 590-591. 1948 (d. 9 Mar 1948; hobbies: campanology and dowsing). #### Composite works - (1) Translated E. Warming, *Handbook of systematic botany* (1894). - (2) *Botany, in* The Victoria history of the country of Durham: 35-81. 1905 (fide BL). #### Note Published an *Elementary textbook of agricultural botany* (1893, see J. Bot. 31: 378-379. Dec 1873).