> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 387](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212429) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10720-1) LSID 10720-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8009366) QID Q8009366 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tolmie, William Fraser (1812-1886), British botanical collector on the Northwest coast of America; student of W.J. Hooker; medical officer in Vancouver 1832, later also associated with the Canadian Geological Survey; first botanist to ascend and to collect on Mount Rainier (1833). **Abbreviated name**: *Tolmie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tolmie*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; other material at [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 588; Barnhart 3: 389; BB p. 302; Bossert p. 403; Clokie p. 255; Desmond p. 614 (b. 3 Feb 1812, d. 8 Dec 1886); ME 3: 197. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. 33: 244-245. 1887; J. Bot. 42: 301-302. 1904; Dominion Annual Register, Canada, 1886: 290-291. 1887; Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 6: 354-355. 1896; Science 8: 628. 1886. - Bagley, C.B., Washington hist. Quart. 1(1): 77-81. 1906 (extracts diary), 3(3): 229-241. 1922 (journal 1833), 23(3): 205-227. 1932 (diary). - Hooker, W.J., Fl. bor. amer. 2: 45. 1834 ("one of my most zealous Botanical pupils ..."); Comp. Bot. Mag. 2: 159. 1836. - Johansen, D.O., The Beaver 268(2): 29-32. 1937 (portr.). - Jones, O., *in* Kelly, H.A. & W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 1151-1152. 1920. - Kelly, H.A., Cycl. Amer. med. biogr. 2: 450-451. 1912. - Kerr, ed., Biogr. dict. Brit. Columb. 307-309. 1890. - Lamb, W.K., Dict. can. Biogr. 11: 885-888. 1982 (detailed modern account; sources). - Large, R.G., ed., The journals of William Fraser Tolmie, physician and fur trader, xv, 413 p., Vancouver, B.C. 1963 (biogr. notes by H.T. Mitchell on p. 1-10). - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. expl. Trans. Mississippi West 464-480, 1140. 1955 (climbs Mt. - Rainier). - Penhallow, D.P., Trans. R. Soc. Can. ser. 2. 3 (sect. 4): 55. 1897. - Piper, C.V., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 11: 14. 1906. - Small, A.C., J. Scott. Rock Gard. Club 18(4)(73): 339-345. 1984. - Thomas, J.H., Huntia 3: 11. 1969. - Tolmie, S.F., Brit. Columbia hist. Quart. 1(4): 227-240. 1937 \["my father: W.F.T."\]. - Wallace, W.S., Dict. Can. biogr. 400. 1926. - Willis, B., The Mountaineer 8: 46-47. 1915 (ascent Mt. Rainier). #### Composite works Contributed \[possibly only plant material\] to W.J. Hooker, *Fl. bor.-amer*. 1833-1840, TL-2/3003. #### Eponymy *Tolmiea* W.J. Hooker (1834, *nom. rej.*); *Tolmiea* Torrey et A. Gray (1840, *nom. cons.*).