> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 552](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212594) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10927-1) LSID 10927-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2351077) QID Q2351077 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Turrill, William Bertram (1890-1961), British botanist; assistant with G.C. Druce at Oxford 1906-1909; temporary assistant Herbarium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1909, permanent assistant ("botanist") 1914; B.Sc. London 1915, (M.Sc. 1922, D.Sc. 1928), on active service with the Royal Army medical Corps in Macedonia 1916-1918; from 1916 again with Kew, lecturing at the Chelsea Polytechnic 1918-1939; in Oxford 1939-1945 in charge of part of the Kew library and herbarium transferred to the New Bodleian Library; keeper of the herbarium and library at Kew 1946-1957; in retirement 1957-1961, still working at Kew; leading authority on the flora of the Balkan Peninsula. **Abbreviated name**: *Turrill* \[standard form in IPNI: *Turrill*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; further material [[Collection ABD|ABD]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection NOT|NOT]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]; *letters* at [[Collection G|G]]; correspondence received at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 410 (b. 14 Jun 1890); BFM 3271; Biol.-Dokum. 18: 9420; BJI 2: 180; BL 1: 108, 246, 322, 2: 224, 303, 312, 725; BM 8: 1333; Bossert p. 409; Clokie p. 257; Desmond p. 624 (d. 15 Dec 1961); DNB 1961-1970: 1026-1027 (P.J. Coote); GR p. 417-418; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 1): 49, (ed. 2): 66, (ed. 3): 81, 2: 505; MW p. 506, suppl. 371-372; Plesch p. 443; Roon p. 116; Sotheby 776; TL-1/341; TL-2/1290, 1607, 1664, see E.M. Marsden-Jones; Tucker 3: 314; Zander ed. 10, p. 726, ed. 11, p. 828. #### Biofile - A.D.C., J. Kew Guild 6(54): 639-640. 1948. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1914: 227 (appointed "assistant"); Gard. Chron. 1961(2): 500; Index amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 393-394. 1969; Kew Bull. 1946: 3 (app. keeper K); Kew Bull. 13: 29-30. 1958 (retirement; biogr. sketch); The Times 16, 27 Sep 1961; Who's who London 1950-1962; Who was who (London) 1961-1970: 1138. - Bridson, G.D.R., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 443. 1980 (nos. 269.344, 269.366). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world nos. R38, R39, 530. 1984. - Hubbard, C.E., Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. London 17: 689-712. 1971 (biogr., portr., bibl. of ca. 650 items). - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 261-262. 1984 (Brit. Irish coll.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 748. 1984. - Salisbury, E.J., Proc. Bot. Soc. Brit. Isl. 5(2): 194-196. 1963 (obit.). - Steenis, C.G.G.J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 17: 875. 1962 (d.). - Taylor, G., Nature 193: 826-827. 1962 (obit.), Lily Year Book 1962: 9-10 (obit., portr.) *in* W.B. Turrill, Vistas in botany 2: vii-viii. 1963. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 30, 32, 167, 178. 1935, 2: 477 \[index\]. 1936, 3: 429 \[index\]. 1937, 4: 595 \[index\]. 1938, 5: 555 \[index\]. 1939, 6: 308, 416, 417. 1941, 7: 459 \[index\]. 1943. - Wulff, E., Intr. hist. pl. geogr. 28, 46. 1943. #### Composite works - (1) *Cyperaceae, in* A.H. Wolley-Dod, *A flora of Gibraltar* (J. Bot., London 52, suppl.:) 109-110. 1914. - (2) *Centrolepidaceae* and (with O. Stapf) *Cyperaceae, in* L.S. Gibbs, *Fl. Mt. Kinabalu*, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 172-185. - (3) *Onosma, in* N. Stoianoff and B. Stefanoff, *Flore de Bulgarie*, Annu. Arch. Agric. Bulg. 5: 914-916. 1924. - (4) *Cyperaceae*, with R.N. Parker, *in* Duthie, *Fl. Upper Gang. Pl*. 3(3): 320-371. 1929. - (5) *Ranunculaceae*, with E. Milne Redhead, in *Fl. trop. East Africa* (ed. Turrill), 1952. - (6) *Oleaceae, in* id., 1952. - (7) With E.M. Marsden-Jones, *British Knapweeds*, a study in synthetic taxonomy, London 1954, 201 p., *27 pl*. - (8) With id., *The Bladder Campions*, London 1957, ix, 378 p. *55 pl*. - (9) Editor, *Vistas in Botany*, vols. 1-4, 1959-1964. - (10) Editor, with E. Milne-Redhead, *Fl. trop. East Africa* 1952-1961 (see Taxon 1: 63. 1952). #### Note Major works published after our closing date: - (1) *British plant life*, London 1948, xvii, 315 p., *24 pl*. - (2) *Pioneer plant geography*. The phytogeographical researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Hague 1953, xii, 267 p., *21 pl*. - (3) *The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew*, past and present, London 1959, 256 p., map, *16 pl*. - (4) *Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist, explorer and administrator*, London 1963, xi, 228 p. – British men of science. - (5) With J.R. Sealy, *Studies in the genus Fritillaria*, Hooker's Icones plantarum 39(1, 2), 1980, iv, 280 p. #### Eponymy *Turrillia* A.C. Smith (1985). ### Publications ##### n.15.392. A contribution to the flora of Fiji **Title** *A contribution to the flora of Fiji*... Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal-Botany... 1915. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1915, p. \[15\]-39. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 43: 15-39. 1915. ##### n.15.393. Glechoma hederacea **Title** From the B.E.C. Report for 1919. *Glechoma hederacea* L. and its sub-divisions... Arbroath (T. Buncle & Co.) 1920. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1920 (reprint dated), cover-t.p., p. \[1-7\]. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 5: 694-701. 1920. ##### n.15.394. A contribution to the flora of the Nearer East **Title** *A contribution to the flora of the Nearer East*... London (published by his Majesty's Stationery Office) 1923. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1923, cover-t.p., p. \[291\]-298. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Misc. Inf. Kew 1922: \[291\]-298. 1923. ##### n.15.395. The plant-life of the Balkan Peninsula **Title** *The plant-life of the Balkan Peninsula* a phytogeographical study... Oxford (at the Clarendon Press) 1929. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl*.-*life Balkan Penins.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Feb 1929 (p. ix: Nov 1928; Kew Bull. 9 Mai 1929 rev.; J. Bot. Aug 1929; NY rd. Jun-Jul 1929; Nat. Nov. Mar 1929), p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xxii, \[xxiii\], \[1\]-490, map, *pl*. \[*1-9*\]. *Copies*: B, BR, G, HH, MO, NY, PH, U. *Ref*.: A.J., J. Bot. 67: 238-240. 1929. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1929: 91-92. - Mattfeld, J., Bot. Jahrb. 63 (Lit.): 91-92. 1930. - Scharfetter, R., Österr. bot. Z. 79: 188-189. 1930.