> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 224](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259728) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123677247) QID Q123677247 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fisher, Robert (Rev.) (1848-1933), British vicar, born 22 Jun 1818 in St. Bees (Cumb.), B.A. 1870 Cambridge, ordained 1871, vicar in Sewerby 1877-1898 and in Beverly 1898-1905, rector in Stokesley 1905-1925, Canon of York 1913, died 11 Mai 1933 in Whitby (Yorks.). **Abbreviated name**: *R. Fisher* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WHY|WHY]]. – Some mss. material at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography BL 2: 219, 276, 653; Desmond p. 223, ed. 2: 248; Kent p. 54, ed. 2: 149; Kew 2: 275. #### Biofile - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 401. (index) - Coulter, J.M., 1894. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 3(2): 91. - F\[lintoff\]., R.J., 1933. North West. Nat. 8: 334-336, *pl. 28.* (portr.) ### Publications ##### n.34.664. flowering plants **Title** The *flowering plants* of *Whitby* and district, with botanical and English names, explanatory preface and index... Whitby (Horne and Son Ltd., Printers) \[1928\]. Oct. **Notes** *Contributor*: "Cryptogams in the Whitby Club District" (page 43): Flintoff, Robert John (1873-1941), see IH 2: 200 (as "R.J."). *Publ*.: 1928 (pref.), cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-43, \[i-v, Notes (i.e. blank pages)\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), K. *Note*: Cover-t.p., "12 miles round Whitby. The flowering plants, by a member of the Whitby Field Naturalists' Club". *Second issue*: 1929 (p. ii signed Mar 1929), t.p., p. \[ii\], \[1\]-43, \[i-v, Notes (i.e. blank pages)\]. *Copy*: K. *Contributor*: "Cryptogams in the Whitby Club District" (page 43): Flintoff (as "Flintoft"), Robert John (1873-1941), see IH 2: 200 (as "R.J."). ##### n.34.665. Flowers **Title** *Flowers* of *grass*. How to know the names of the British grasses... London (Wheldon & Wesley) 1931. Oct. **Notes** *Foreword*: Rayner, John Frederick (1854-1947). *Publ*.: 1931 (introd. p. 7 dated 1 Mai 1931), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-47, \[11\] lvs. \[=28 figs., uncol. draw.\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), K (n.v.), MO, NY(2) (n.v.), US, USDA. ##### n.34.666. English names **Title** The *English names* of our commonest *wild flowers*... Arbroath (T. Buncle & Co. ...) 1932-1934. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Engl. names wild flowers*. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*Part I*\]: 1932, p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-249. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), K (n.v.), U, USDA. *Ref*.: Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 71(849): 267. Sep 1933 (rev.). - *Part II*: 1934, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-344. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), K (n.v.), U, USDA. - *Ref*.: Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 73(871): 205-206. Jul 1935 (rev.). - *Note*: (1) The two parts sometimes are bound in one volume. (2) Part II published posthumously, but "The manuscript of the second part... was completed by Canon Fisher before his death" (*fide* Pref.).