> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 510](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212552) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10853-1) LSID 10853-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349665) QID Q7349665 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Troup, Robert Scott (1874-1939), British silviculturist and botanist; B.Sci. Aberdeen; at Cooper's Hill College as probationer for the Indian Forest service 1894; with the Forest Department Burma 1897; forest economist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun 1905; assistant inspector general of forests 1917-1919; controller of timber supplies 1917-1918; professor of forestry at Oxford 1920-1939. **Abbreviated name**: *Troup* \[standard form in IPNI: *Troup*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown (at [[Collection DD|DD]]?). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 403; BM 8: 1328; Desmond p. 619 (b. 13 Dec 1874, d. 1 Oct 1939); DNB 1931-1940: 872-873 (H.G. Champion); LS suppl. 28121; Rehder 5: 862; Tucker 1: 701, 2: xxxviii, 3: 313. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 241: 757. 1964; Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1919: 446 (app. Oxford); Who's who London 1926-1940; Who was who 3 (1929-1930): 1366. - Blandford, H.R., Empire For. J. 18(2): 187-189. 1939 (obit.). - Burkill, I.H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 178, 180, 201, 202. 1965. - Fischer, C.E.C., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1939: 521-522 (obit.). - H.G.C., Chron. bot. 6(8): 187-188. 1941 (obit.). - Pearson, R.S., Proc. Linn. Soc. 152: 378-381. 1941 (obit.). - Rodger, A., Nature 144: 699-700. 1939 (obit.); Quart. J. For. 34(1): 7-8. 1940 (obit.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 5: 316. 1939, 6: 20, 115. 1941, 7: 276. 1943. ### Publications ##### n.15.226. Indian woods and their uses **Title** *Indian woods and their uses*... Calcutta (Superintendent Government Printing, India) 1909. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Indian woods*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-273, \[i\]-ccxviii. *Copy*: HH. – Issued as Indian Forest Memoirs 1(1). 1909. ##### n.15.227. The silviculture of Indian trees **Title** *The silviculture of Indian trees*... Oxford (at the Clarendon Press) 1921. Oct. 3 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Silvic. Ind. trees*. **Notes** *1*: Sep 1921 (KB 19 Sep 1921, all 3 vols.; ÖbZ for Jan-Apr 1922; Nat. Nov. Oct 1921), p. \[i-ii\], map, \[iii\]-lviii, \[1\]-336, \[i\]-iii, \[iv, colo.\], *102 pl*. *2*: Sep 1921, p. \[i\]-xi, \[337\]-783, \[i\]-iv, *112 pl*. *3*: Sep 1921, p. \[i\]-xii, \[785\]-1195, \[1196, colo.\], *130 pl*. *Copies*: BR, H-UB, HH, MO. *Ref*.: W.D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1921: 286-287 (rev.). ##### n.15.228. Motions to be submitted to the Sixth International Botanical Congress **Title** *Motions to be submitted to the Sixth International Botanical Congress*, Amsterdam, 1935 ... \[Oxford, 1934\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: 18 Dec 1934, p. \[1-4\]. *Copy*: FAS. – Proposal nomina specifica conservanda.