> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 853](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355940) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7181-1) LSID 7181-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7781936) QID Q7781936 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Osborn, Theodore George Bentley (1887-1973), British botanist; MSc. Manchester 1911, D. Sc. ib. 1920; lecturer Manchester 1908-1912; professor of botany Adelaide 1912-1927; id. Sydney 1928-1937; id. Oxford 1937-1953; returned to Adelaide 1953. **Abbreviated name**: *T. Osborn* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Osborn*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 34; BJI 2: 127; BL 1: 71, 72, 311; BM 7: 960; Clokie p. 219-220; Desmond p. 473; Kew 4; 197; LS 37558-37559, suppl. 20582-20595. - Anon., Nature 139: 746. 1937 (app. Oxford); 171: 373. 1953 (retirement); 244: 377. 1973 (obit.); S. Austral. Natural. 48: 9. 1973 (obit.); The Times 6 Jun 1973. - Robertson, R. N. & C. M. Eardley, Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia 97: 316-320. 1973 (obit., bibl., portr., b. 2 Oct 1887, d. 3 Jun 1973). - Verdoorn, F., Chron. bot. 4: portr. opp. 72. 1938. #### Eponymy *Osbomia*F. v. Mueller (1862) honors J. W. Osborne, a chemist who invented a new method of photo-lithography.