> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 642](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333781) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9731-1) LSID 9731-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5732387) QID Q5732387 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Skvortzov \[Skvortzow\], Boris Vasilievich (1890-1980), Polish-born botanist of Russian descent who was educated in Harbin (Manchuria); Dr. phil. St. Petersburg as a student of K.Y. Gobi and V.L. Komarov 1917; school teacher in Harbin, Manchuria, N.E. China 1902; scientific secretary of the Manchuria Research Society 1922-1928; research fellow at the Institute of Forestry of the Academia Sinica 1950; professor at the Academy of Forestry Harbin 1958; to Brazil as research associate at the Botanical Institute of São Paulo 1963. **Abbreviated name**: *Skvortzov* \[standard form in IPNI: *Skvortsov*\] #### Herbarium and types Forest Academy Harbin; some material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection S|S]] (diat.) and [[Collection SP|SP]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 286; Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8723; BM 8: 1201; Bossert p. 371; Hirsch p. 277; LS suppl. 25704-25705; MW p. 455-458 (bibl., suppl. p. 324-325 (bibl.); Tucker 3: 283. 1933. #### Biofile - Anon., Taxon 30: 561. 1981 (obit. notice). - Asmous, V.C., Chron. bot. 11(2): 109-110. 1947 (bot. bibl. Manchuria). - Chung, H.H., Lingnan Sci. J. 7: 125. 1929 (coll. Foochow). - Fryxell, G.A., Beih. Nova Hedw. 35: 363. 1975 (diat. coll. S-PA, SP). - Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. univ. 469-471. 1984. - Skvortzov, B.V., Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 27: 389-417. 1974 (notes and papers printed from 1917-1970; main bibl.). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 87. 1981 (corr. HU). - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. diat. 4: 2371-2373. 1971, 6: 3593. 1978, 7: 4228-4230. 1978 (bibl. Diat.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 6: 464. 1941. #### Eponymy *Skvortzoviella* P. Bourelly (1970); *Skvortzoviothrix* P. Bourelly (1972). #### Note Skvortzov was a prolific author to whose contributions especially on the flora of Manchuria and on diatoms we cannot do justice in this entry. For bibliographies see Skvortzov (1974), MW, MW suppl. and VanLandingham (1971-1978). ### Publications ##### n.12.097. Die Euglenaceengattung Trachelomonas **Title** *Die Euglenaceengattung Trachelomonas* Ehrenberg. Eine systematische Übersicht... Harbin, China 1925. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Trachelomonas*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1925 (p. 1: Aug 1925), p. \[i-ii\], 1-101, *pl. 1-8* uncol. *Copy*: PH. – Issued as \[Arb.\] Biol. Sungari Sta. Harbin 1(2). 1925. ##### n.12.098. A contribution to the algae, Primorsk District **Title** *A contribution to the algae, Primorsk District* of Far East, USSR Diatoms of Hanka Lake... Vladivostok 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Contr. alg. Primorsk*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929 (USDA copy received 16 Oct 1928, sic), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-66, *pl. 1-8*, \[9\], uncol. *Copies*: NSUB, USDA. – Issued as Mem. S. Ussuri Branch Russian Geogr. Soc. 1929(3). *Prelim. publ*.: Bull. S. Ussuri Branch Russ. Geogr. Soc. 13: 227-232. 1926.