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### Author
Rylands, Thomas Glazebrook (1818-1900), British (English) wire manufacturer and diatomist at Warrington (Lancastershire).
**Abbreviated name**: *Rylands* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rylands*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]] (orig. diat.; incl. 6000 slides); other material at [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection BP|BP]] and [[Collection GL|GL]] (Brit. herb.). Rylands correspondence is also at [[Collection BM|BM]] (presented 1907 by Miss Martha G. Rylands). The Diatom herbarium includes also that of Christopher Johnston (of Lancaster); other slides are by Walker Arnott, R.K. Greville, Gregory and G. Norman. – Dallman and Wood 1909 mention a herbarium at Warrington Museum ([[Collection WRN|WRN]])(Rylands was one of the founders of the Warrington Natural History Society).
#### Bibliography and biography
Ainsworth p. 102, 314, 347; Barnhart 3: 196; BB p. 265; BM 4: 1776; CSP 5: 349; Desmond p. 536 (b. 24 Mai 1818, d. 14 Feb 1900); De Toni 1: cxix, 2: ciii; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 2: (files); Zander ed. 11, p. 810.
#### Biofile
- Anon., J. Bot. 45: 455-456. 1907 (diatom herb. to BM; list letters in Rylands collection of letters from and to diatomologists).
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 433 \[index\]. 1980.
- Dallman, A.A. & M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 88. 1909.
- Fryxell, G.A., Nova Hedwigia Beih. 35: 363. 1975 (coll.).
- Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 76. 1957 (Brit. herb. at GL).
- Newton, L.M., Phycol. Bull. 1: 18. 1952.
- Radcliffe, R.D., Proc. Linn. Soc., London 114: 41-42. 1902 (obit.).
#### Eponymy
*Rylandsia* Greville et Ralfs ex Greville (1861).