> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 603](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190074) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8188-1) LSID 8188-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4398741) QID Q4398741 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rawson, Sir Rawson William (1812-1899), British colonial administrator and pteridologist; clerk Board of Trade 1829; Government secretary Canada 1842; treasurer and paymaster-general Mauritius 1844; colonial secretary Cape of Good Hope (1854-1864); governor Bahamas 1864, id. Jamaica 1865, id. Windward Islands (1869-1875). **Abbreviated name**: *Rawson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rawson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], other material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection PH|PH]] and [[Collection SAM|SAM]]. – Letters at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 132; BB p. 253; BM 4: 1511, 1652, 8: 1052; CSP 8: 708, 11: 116; Desmond p. 513 (b. 8 Sep 1812, d. 20 Nov 1899); IH 2: (in press); Jackson p. 347; PR 6930; Urban-Berl. p. 386. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Not. 1900: 47 (d.); Hedwigia 39: (70). 1900 (d.); J. Bot. 34: 118. 1896, 38: 63. 1900 (obit); R.W., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1899: 221-222. - Bayer, A.W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 67: 406. 1971 (John Buchanan used Rawson for his *Revised list of Natal ferns*, 1875). - Fryer, Dict. S. Afr. biogr. 2: 571. 1972. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 291. 1981 (coll., portr.). - Harvey, W.H. & O.W. Sonder, FI. cap. 1: 67. 1859. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 6: 76. 1900 (d.). - Murray, G., Hist coll. BM(NH) 1: 176. 1904. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3(1): 109. 1902. #### Composite works With C.W.L. Pappe (q.v.) *Syn. filic. Afr. austr.* (1858). #### Eponymy *Rawsonia* W.H. Harvey et Sonder (1860).