> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 958](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190429) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8683-1) LSID 8683-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607497) QID Q21607497 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roy, John (1826-1893), Scottish botanist (desmidiologist); educated in the Normal College of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh; school teacher at Brackmuirhill and at Old Bridge of Don nr. Aberdeen; from 1863 in charge of the Skene Square Public School at Aberdeen; LL.D.h.c. Aberdeen 1889. **Abbreviated name**: *Roy* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Roy*\] #### Herbarium and types in herb. J. Keith (1825-1905), and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Contributed to V. Wittrock & O. Nordstedt, *Algae aquae dulcis exsiccalae praecipue Scandinavicae*. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 187 (b. 24 Feb 1826, d. 18 Dec 1893); BB p. 263; BL 2: 294, 711; BM 4: 1745; Clokie p. 235; Desmond p. 533; De Toni 1: cxix, 4: xlviii; MW p. 419. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 57: 320. 1894 (d.).; Bot. Not. 1894: 47(d.); J. Bot. 32: 64. 1894 (d.). - J.W.H.T., Ann. Scott. nat. Hist. 3: 72-75. 1894 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 76. 1957. #### Eponymy *Roya* W. West et G. S. West (1896).