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### Author
Sowter, Frederick Archibald (1899-1972), British sales manager, bryologist and lichenologist at Leicester.
**Abbreviated name**: *Sowter* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sowter*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LSR|LSR]]; further material in [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection LTR|LTR]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Bossert p. 377; Clokie p. 247; Desmond p. 576 (b. 30 Aug 1899, d. 16 Nov 1972); GR p. 415, *pl*. \[*34*\]; Kleppa p. 138.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 5(4): 392. 1973 (d.); Int. lichenol. Newsletter 7(1, 2): 10. 1973 (d.); Rev. bryol. lichénol. 39: 349. 1973 (d.).
- Ewan, I.M., Trans. Leicester Lit. Phil.-Soc. 67: 20-24. 1973 (obit.).
- Hawksworth, D.L., Lichenologst 5: 345-348. 1973 (obit., bibl., portr.).
- Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl 31, 32, 153, 199. 1977.
- Jones, E.W., J. Bryol. 7: 465-468. 1973 (obit., portr., list publ.).
- Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 248. 1984.
- Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11: 17. 1979 (herb. LSR).
- Wade, A.E., Watsonia 10(1): 114. 1974 (obit.).