> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 338](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212380) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12933-1) LSID 12933-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q717391) QID Q717391 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thurn, Everard Ferdinand Im (1852-1932), British colonial administrator and collector; MA Oxford, curator of the Museum at Georgetown, British Guiana 1877-1882; magistrate at Pomeroon 1882-1891, government agent, N.W. District 1891-1899; colonial secretary in Ceylon 1901; governor of the Fiji Islands 1904-1910; first to make an ascent of Mt. Roraima (1884); LL.D. Edinburgh Univ. 1911. **Abbreviated name**: *Thurn* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thurn*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; other material at [[Collection BM|BM]] (315 plants from Roraima), [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NOT|NOT]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection RNG|RNG]]. #### Note often listed as Im Thurn, E.F. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 230, 3: 382; BL 1: 244, 302; BM 2: 902; CSP 16: 13; Desmond p. 612; IH 2: 300; Morren ed. 10, p. 143; Tucker 1: 361. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 111: 56-57. 1962; Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1932: 461-462 (d.); Nature 130: 602-603. 1932 (obit.); Orch. Rev. 40: 352. 1932 (d.); Science ser. 2. 76: 400. 1932 (d.); The Times 11 Oct 1932; Who's who (London) 1898-1932; Who was who (London) 3: 690. 1929-1940 (d. 9 Oct 1932). - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 258. 1984. - Ridley, H.N., J. Bot. 70: 341-342. 1932 (obit. not.). - Smith, A.C., Fl. vitiensis nova 1: 54. 1979 (coll. Fiji). - W.L.S., Geogr. J. 80(6): 556-557. 1932 (obit.). #### Composite works Founded *Timehri*, Journal of the Royal Agricultural and commercial Society of British Guiana, 1-5, 1882-1886, for continuation see BM 4: 1745. #### Eponymy *Thurnia* J.D. Hooker (1883); *Everardia* Ridley (1886). ### Publications ##### n.14.447. Among the Indians of Guiana **Title** *Among the Indians of Guiana* being sketches chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana... London (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.,...) 1883. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Among Ind. Guiana*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1883, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-445, *pl. 1-10. Copy*: Wurdack. ##### n.14.448. Notes on plants at Roraima **Title** *Notes on plants at Roraima*... Demerara ("Argosy" Office) 1886. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1886, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-79, *Copy*: US. – Reprinted from Timehri 2(5), 1886 (journal n.v.). ##### n.14.449. The botany of the Roraima expedition of 1884 **Title** *The botany of the Roraima expedition of 1884*... London (printed for the Linnean Society...) 1887. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1887, cover-t.p., p. 249-300, *pl. 37-56* (uncol. lith. M. Smith). *Copy*: FAS. – Issued as and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London ser. 2. (Bot.): 2(13): 249-300, *pl. 37-56.* 1887.