> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 155](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212197) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12284-1) LSID 12284-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6167553) QID Q6167553 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Talbot, William Alexander (1847-1917), Irish botanist; in the Indian Forest Service 1876 in the Bombay Presidency; conservator of Forests, Bombay 1901-1909; in Switzerland from 1911. **Abbreviated name**: *Talbot* \[standard form in IPNI: *Talbot*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BSI|BSI]], [[Collection K|K]]. – Other material at [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection DD|DD]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 357 (1800-1877); BB p. 295-296; BM 5: 2070; Desmond p. 598 (d. 23 Jul 1917); IH 1: (ed. 6): 365; Rehder 5: 834; Tucker 1: 678. #### Biofile - Beeson, C.F.C., ed., Indian Forester 51(11): 577-579. 1925 (obit.). - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 162, 163, 165, 176. 1965. - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 822. 1984. - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 2: 389. 1918. - Ryan, G.M., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 133: 56-58. 1921 (obit.). - S.T.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1921: 93-94 (obit.). #### Eponymy *Amauriella* Rendle (1913), *Talbotia* S. Moore (1913) and *Talbotiella* E.G. Baker (1914) were all named for P. Amaury Talbot (1877-1945) and his wife, Dorothy A. Talbot (1871-1916) who together collected plants in Nigeria. ### Publications ##### n.13.681. Systematic list of the trees **Title** *Systematic list of the trees*, shrubs and woody climbers of the *Bombay presidency*... Bombay (printed at the Government Central Pess) 1894. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syst. list. trees Bombay*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1894, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-230. *Copies*: B-S, HH, NY; IDC 5169. *Ed. 2*: Oct-Dec 1902 (p. \[i\]: Sep 1902; Nat. Nov. Jan(1) 1903), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxv, \[1\]-385. *Copies*: HH, USDA. – "*The trees, shrubs and woody climbers of the Bombay Presidency*... second edition." *Ed. 3* (reprint): 1949, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxiv, \[xxxv, err.\], \[1\]-564. Poona (printed at the Government photozincographic Press). Oct. *Copy*: USDA. ##### n.13.682. Forest flora of the Bombay Presidency **Title** *Forest flora of the Bombay Presidency* and Sind... Poona (Printed by Government at the Photozincographic Department) 1909-1911. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *For. fl. Bombay*. **Notes** *1*: 1909 (Nat. Nov. Sep(1) 1910), frontisp., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-508, \[i\]-xxvi. *2*: 1911, *frontisp*., p. \[i\*\], xxxvii, \[xxxviii, xxxix\], \[1\]-574. *Copies*: B-S, G, MO, PH. *Facsimile repr*.: New Delhi (Today & Tomorrows...) 1976, 2 vols. *Copy*: BR.