> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 613](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190084) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8204-1) LSID 8204-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607038) QID Q21607038 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Reade, Oswald Alan (1848-1929), British botanist and pharmaceutical chemist; dispenser in the Royal Navy 1873-1908; stationed at Ascension, Bermuda, Plymouth, Malta and Haslar; collected extensively in Bermuda 1878-1886; in retirement at Lowestoft. **Abbreviated name**: *Reade* \[standard form in IPNI: *Reade*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (Bermuda); plants from Malta and mss at [[Collection BM|BM]]; some Bermuda ferns at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 134 (d. 14 Apr 1929); Desmond p. 514; Kew 4: 423; Rehder 1: 336, 3: 717; Tucker 1: 585. #### Biofile - Anon., Nature 123: 882. 1929 (d.); Pharm. J. Pharmacist 122: 393. 1929 (obit.); J. Bot. 68: 22. 1930 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.462. 1980. - Britton, N.L., Fl. Bermuda 548. 1918. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 134. 1898, 3: no. 1902. ### Publications ##### n.8716. Plants of the Bermudas **Title** *Plants of the Bermudas*, or, Somers' Islands... Bermuda (printed at the "Royal Gazette" Office, Hamilton) 1883. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Bermudas*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1883 (t.p. but cover dated 1885), p. \[1\]-112, \[i\]-vii. *Copies*: HH, NY, PH, US, USDA.