> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 879](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190350) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8577-1) LSID 8577-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607396) QID Q21607396 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roper, Freeman Clarke Samuel (1819-1896), British (English) botanist and microscopist; businessman in London, from 1868 resident at Eastbourne. **Abbreviated name**: *Roper* \[standard form in IPNI: *Roper*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (diatoms, 3.580 slides); [[Collection BTN|BTN]] (herb., 3000); further material at [[Collection BP|BP]] and [[Collection K|K]]. – See also under W.B. Hemsley. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 176; BB p. 261; BL 2: 271, 710; BM 4: 1728; Bossert p. 337; CSP 5: 271, 8: 777, 11: 215, 18: 289; Dawson p. 530 (b. 23 Sep 1819, d. 28 Jul 1896); De Toni 1: cviii, 2: ci-cii; GR p. 413; IH 2: (files); Jackson p. 251; Kelly p. 194; Kew 4: 514; LS 22516-22519; Morren ed. 10, p. 75; Rehder 5: 736; TL-2/see W.B. Hemsley; Tucker 1: 606. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 34: 340-341. 1896 (obit., portr.); J.R. microsc. Soc. 1896: 688 (obit., bibl.); Nat. Nov. 18: 462. 1896, 9: 47. 1897; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1896/97: 67. 1897 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 29.412. 1980. - Deby, J., Bibl. microsc. stud. 3 (Diat.): 47. 1882. - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 24, 141-142. 1977. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 2: 17. 1896 (d.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 76. 1957 (coll.). - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 557. 1969 (diat. BM). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 178. 1904 (Diat. bequeathed 1896; 151 Brit. pl., 538 Amer. pl.). - Roper, F.C.S., Papers Eastbourne natural History Society, suppl. Fauna and Flora, 1873: 5-6. Session 15 Dec 1876 (*Notes on the Eucalyptus globulus* Labillardière). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 85-86. 1981 (arch. mat. HU). - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. diat. 4: 2366. 1971, 6: 3586. 1978, 7: 4223. 1978. - Watson, H.C., Topogr. bot. ed. 2. 555. 1883. - Wolley-Dod, A.H., Fl. Sussex xlvii. 1970. #### Eponymy *Roperia* Grunow ex Pelletan (1889). ### Publications ##### n.9494. Supplement to the fauna and flora of Eastbourne **Title** *Supplement to the fauna and flora of Eastbourne*, together with a list of Eastbourne cretaceous fossils... For private circulation. December, 1873. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Suppl. fauna fl. Eastbourne*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1873, p. \[1\]-22, \[23, err.\]. *Copy*: HH. – Possibly reprinted from the Proc. Eastbourne nat. hist. Soc. 1873 (journal n.v.). ##### n.9495. Flora of Eastbourne **Title** *Flora of Eastbourne*. Being an introduction to the flowering plants, ferns, etc. of the Cuckmere district, East Sussex, with a map... London (John van Voorst,...) 1875. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Eastbourne*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1875 (p. vi: 20 Apr 1875; J. Bot. Jul 1875), p. \[i\]-vii, map, \[ix\]-xliii, \[1\]-165. *Copies*: E, MO, NY, USDA. – See BL 2: 271 for further references. *Ref*.: Trimen, H., J. Bot. 13: 246-247. 1875.