> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 712](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333851) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9843-1) LSID 9843-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5936994) QID Q5936994 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Snowden, Joseph Davenport (1886-1973), British botanist; gardener at Kew 1909-1911; assistant agricultural officer in the Agricultural Department of Uganda 1911, district agricultural officer ib. 1918, senior district agricultural officer 1928, economic botanist 1930-1931; in retirement at Chiswick and Barton-on-Sea. **Abbreviated name**: *Snowden* \[standard form in IPNI: *Snowden*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]. – Grasses and Sorghum note-books at [[Collection K|K]]. – Further material at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]] (bryo.), [[Collection IMI|IMI]], [[Collection MO|MO]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 375; Desmond p. 572 (b. 31 Mai 1886, d. 9 Mai 1973); Langman p. 706-707; MW p. 461, suppl. p. 327; Stevenson p. 1258; Zander ed. 10, p. 718, ed. 11, p. 820. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 225:'247. 1964; Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1911: 162. (app. Uganda); Nature 134: 844. 1934 (donates herb., 2300, to BM). - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. no. 1978. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.334. 1980. - Hubbard, C.E., J. Kew Guild 7: 761-762. 1960 (biogr. sketch), 9: 345-346. 1974 (obit.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 184, 185. 1936, 3: 161, 162. 1937. #### Eponymy *Snowdenia* Hubbard (1929). ### Publications ##### n.12.328. The cultivated races of Sorghum **Title** *The cultivated races of Sorghum*... London (printed for the trustees of the Bentham-Moxon Fund by Adlard & Son, Ltd...) 1936. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cult. Sorghum*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1936 (date on t.p.; BR rd 9 Jun 1936), p. \[i\]-vii, 1-273, \[274\]. *Copies*: BR, G, HH, MO, NY. *Preliminary publ*.: *A classification of cultivated sorghums*, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1935: 221-255. –See also his The wild fodder Sorghums of the section Eu-Sorghum, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 55: 191-260. 20 Apr 1955. *Ref*.: Burkill, I.H., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1937: 112-119 (critical). - Rendle, A.B., J. Bot. 74: 242-243. Aug 1936 (rev.).