> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 561](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212603) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10946-1) LSID 10946-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21611113) QID Q21611113 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tyson, William (1851-1920), Jamaica-born (British parents) South African teacher and plant collector; studied at Leeds; to S. Africa ca. 1874, teacher at various schools in S. Africa 1874-1888; with the South African Department of forestry, Kimberley, 1888-1893; librarian and editor with the Agricultural Department 1893-1904; ultimately, in retirement at Port Alfred. **Abbreviated name**: *Tyson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tyson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BOL|BOL]] (coll. marine algae), [[Collection PRE|PRE]] (phan.); further material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection STE|STE]]. *Exsiccatae*: *South African marine algae*, fasc. 1-2, 1909-1910, nos. 1-100. Sets [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]]. – Algae also distributed with *Herbarium normale austro-africanum*. #### Bibliography and biography BB p. 308; Desmond p. 625 (b. Mar 1851, d. 13 Apr 1920); Urban-Berl. p. 405. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1920: 176 (obit.). - Bayer, A.W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 67: 407. 1971. - Delf, E.M. & M.R. Michell, Ann. Bolus Herb. 3: 89-119. 1923 (coll. marine algae at BOL). 1981. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Africa 195 (portr.), 353 (detailed treatment; portr.). - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 558. 1968 (algae at BOL). - Phillips, E.P., S. Afr. J. Sci. 27: 53. 1930. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 104. 1919 (exsicc). - Schonland, S., Ann. Bolus Herb. 3: 120-121. 1929 (obit., portr.). #### Eponymy *Afrotysonia* Rauschert (1982); *Tysonia* H. Bolus (1890). *Note*: *Tysonia* F. von Mueller (1896) and *Neotysonia* K.W. Dalla Torre et H.A.Th. Harms (1905) were named for Isaac Tyson who collected in western Australia.