Trail (sometime Traill), James William Helenus

> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 428](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212470) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10787-1) LSID 10787-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5925898) QID Q5925898 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Trail (sometime Traill), James William Helenus (1851-1919), British botanist; MA Aberdeen 1870, MB 1876, MD 1879; assistant at the medical faculty, Univ. Aberdeen 1870-1873; on a South American exploring expedition 1873-1875; professor of botany, Univ. Aberdeen 1877-1919; director of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden 1898-1919; co-founder of the Aberdeen Working Men's Natural History Society 1886. **Abbreviated name**: *Trail* \[standard form in IPNI: *Trail*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection ABD|ABD]]; other material at [[Collection BH|BH]] (photo's of palm types), [[Collection BM|BM]] (palms Amaz., Brit. pl.), [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]] (British and Amaz. coll.), [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. – *Letters* to W.G. Farlow at [[Collection FH|FH]]. #### Bibliography and biography BB p. 303-304; BL 2: 724 \[index\]; BM 5: 2131; Bossert p. 405; CSP 8: 1106, 11: 631, 12: 739, 19: 182-183; Desmond p. 616-617 (b. 4 Mar 1851, d. 18 Sep 1919); Hawksworth p. 186; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344; Kelly p. 228; Kleppa p. 81, 111; LS 25850, 26989-27018, 40010-40012; Morren ed. 10, p. 78; Rehder 5: 856; Stevenson p. 1260; TL-2/6783, 13.087. #### Biofile - Anon., Allg. bot. Z. 4: 152. 1898 (founding bot. gard.); Amer. J. Sci. 198: 478. 1919 (d.); Bot. Centralbl. 75: 256. 1898, 76: 352. 1898 (founding Cruikshank Bot. Gard., director); Bull. Soc. bot. France 24 (bibl.): 46. 1877 (app. Aberdeen); Flora 60: 320. 1877 (app. Aberdeen); Gard. Chron. 1919(2): 172 (obit.), 1923(2): 360 (memorial tablet); J. Bot. 57: 296. 1919 (d.); Nature 48: 10. 1893; Nat. Nov. 22: 152. 1920 (d.); Österr. bot. Z. 27: 285. 1877 (app. Aberdeen); Peterhead Trans. Buchan Field Club 9: 284-292. 1909 (n.v.); Science ser. 2. 50: 410. 1919; Who's who, London 1897-1919; Who was who 1916-1928: 1050. 1929. - Babington, C.C., Mem. Journ. Bot. corr. 434, 435. 1897 (letters). - Bower, F.O., Nature 104: 76-77. 1919 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 4.26, 4.27, 269.359. 1980. - Druce, G.C., Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl., Rep. 1919: 626-628. - Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 132: 49-51. 1920 (obit.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 82. 1957 (herb. ABD). - Plarr, V.G., Men and women of the time ed. 14. 843. 1895. - Prain, D., J. Bot. 57: 318-321. 1919 (obit.); Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1919: 378-388 (obit., bibl.), 1920: 32-33 (add. bibl.); Proc. R. Soc. London B-91: vii-xi. 1920 (obit.). - Prance, G., Acta amaz. 1(1): 61. 1971 (coll. Amaz. K). - Ramsbottom, J., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 1920: 297-298 (obit.). - Ritchie, J., Scott. Naturalist 1920: 1-5 (obit., portr.). - Skene, M., New Phytologist 19(1, 2): 46-48. 1920 (obit.). - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 121-123. 1906 (curr. vit., detailed itinerary). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 98, *pl. 35.* 1903, 3(3): 83. 1905 (portr.). #### Composite works - (1) Editor, *Scottish Naturalist* 7-10, 1883-1890. - (2) Editor (for botany), *Annals of Scottish natural history* 1892-1911. - (3) Editor, F.B.W. White, *The flora of Perthshire* 1898, see under F.B.W. White; Trail produced an introduction, a life of the author, a list of his publications and an appendix. - (4) Contributed *Fungi* to G. Nicholson, *Ill. dict. gard*. 1884-1887, see TL-2/6783. - (5) With John Stevenson (1836-1903), *Mycologia scotica*, supplement, Scottish Naturalist 8: 71, 127-130, 186-192. 1855, 8: 235-237, 264-267, 327-331. 1886. #### Memorial volume *James William Helenus Trail*: *a memorial volume*. Aberdeen (printed... Aberdeen University Press) 1924, xi, 331 p., *3 pl*., map (rev. Anon., J. Bot. 62: 150-151. 1924), biographical sketch by K.E. Trail (p. 1-32), bibl. p. 33-51, list obituary notices p. 51-52, list mss. ABD p. 52-53. ### Publications ##### n.14.836. Descriptions of new species and varieties of palms **Title** *Descriptions of new species and varieties of palms* collected in the Valley of the Amazon in North Brazil, in 1874... \[Extracted from the Journal of Botany... 1876\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov 1876-Mar 1877 (in journal), p. \[i\]-xlii, *pl. 183. Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Bot. 14: 323-333. Nov, 353-359, *pl. 183.* Dec 1876, 15: 1-10. Jan, 40-49. Feb, 75-84. Mar 1877. ##### n.14.837. Report for 1886 on the fungi of the East of Scotland **Title** *Report for 1886 on the fungi of the East of Scotland*... Perth (S. Cowan & Co.,...) \[1887\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1887 (date on cover journal issue), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-4. *Copies*: FH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Scott. Natural. 9: 39-42. 1887. *Report for 1885* Jan 1886 in Scott. Natural. 8: 224-231. ##### n.14.838. On the influence of cryptogams on mankind **Title** *On the influence of cryptogams on mankind*. Revision of the Scotch Perenosporeae. New Scotch microfungi... Perth (S. Cowan and Co.,...) 1887. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1887 (journal issue for Apr 1887; Bot. Zeit. 25 Nov 1887), p. \[1\]-24. *Copies*: FH, G. Reprinted and to be cited from Scott. Natural. 9: 66-77 (mankind), 77-86 (Perenosp.), 86-91 (microfungi). 1887. ##### n.14.839. Revision of Scotch Sphaeropsideae and Melanconieae **Title** *Revision of Scotch Sphaeropsideae and Melanconieae*... Perth (S. Cowan & Co.,...) 1887-1888. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul 1887-Apr 1888 (in journal; reprint Apr 1888), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-53. *Copies*: FH, G, H, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Scott. Natural. 9: 110-128. Jul, 184-190. Aug-Dec 1887, 219-236. Jan-Mar, 262-272. Apr 1888. ##### n.14.840. Report for 1887 on the fungi of the East of Scotland **Title** *Report for 1887 on the fungi of the East of Scotland*... Reprinted from the Scottish Naturalist. \[1887\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1887 (date on cover journal issue), p. \[1\]-8. *Copies*: FH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Scott. Natural. 9: 167-174. 1887. *Report for 1888*: Oct 1888 (date on cover journal issue) p. \[1\]-3. *Copy*: NY. – Id. 9: 355-357. 1888. ##### n.14.841. Revision of the Scotch Perisporiaceae **Title** *Revision of the Scotch Perisporiaceae*... \[Glasgow\] 1889. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: *Jul* 1889, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-13, \[14\]. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow ser. 2. 3: 9-21. 1889. ##### n.14.842. Revision of the Uredineae and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland **Title** Transactions of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland. *Revision of the Uredineae and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland*... Perth (Cowan & Co.,...) 1891 \[1890\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul, Oct 1890 (in journal; reprint t.p. Jan 1891), p. \[i\], \[1\]-48. *Copies*: FH, H. – Reprinted and to be cited from Scott. Natural. 10: 302-327. Jul, 367-373. Oct 1890. ##### n.14.843. Revision of the Scotch Perisporiaceae **Title** *Revision of the Scotch Perisporiaceae*... \[Glasgow 1893\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1890 (date of journal 3(1)), p. \[1\]-13, \[14, index\]. *Copies*: FH, H. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Trans. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc. ser. 3. 1: 9-21. 1890.