> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 398](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259902) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17000443) QID Q17000443 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Freeman, William George (1874-x), British botanist and agriculturalist, born 9 Jan 1874 in Falmouth (Cornwall), B.Sc. 1898 Univ. of London, asst., botanic garden Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) 1896-1897, demonstrator in botany, Royal College of Science 1897-1900, inspector Dept. of Agriculture West Indies 1900-1903, superintendent, botanic garden Trinidad 1911-1922, dir. of agriculture 1917-1929, Imperial Inst., London 1929, F.L.S. **Abbreviated name**: *W.G. Freeman* #### Herbarium and types Trinidad and Tobago: [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection TRIN|TRIN]]; Nigeria: [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection MO|MO]] (and see IH 2: 90, 98). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 7; BL 1: 261, 297, 2: 6, 655; BM 6: 344; Desmond p. 239, ed. 2: 264; IH 2: 90, 98, 208; Langman p. 292; Lenley p. 174; LS suppl. 8851-8852; TL-2/6: 897, 2/7: 634 (indices); Tucker 1: 261, 2: xvi, 3: 111. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 181. 1931. - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 106; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 156. - Hepper, F.N. & F. Neate, 1971. Pl. collectors W. Afr.: 31. #### Composite works - (1) Co-author with H. Stone, *Timb. Brit. Guiana*... 1914 (TL-2/6, nr. 13.197). - (2) First author with R.O. Williams, *The useful and ornamental plants of Trinidad and Tobago*... 1927 (TL-2/7, nr. 17.772). ### Publications ##### n.35.436. world's commercial products **Title** The *world's commercial products*: a descriptive account of the *economic plants* of the world and of their commercial uses... London (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Limited) 1907. Qu. **Notes** *Co-author*: Chandler, Stafford Edwin (1880-1957); with contributions by Henry, Thomas Anderson (1873-1958), a phytochemist; Jones, Charles Edward; and Wilson, Ernest Henry (1876-1930), see TL-2/7: 350-352 and IH 2: 1167. *Publ*.: 1907, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-391 \[index =p. 385-391\], *11 pl*. (unnumb., hand-colored phot. or artwork), maps (in text). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO. *Note*: (1) Issued in "XII Fortnightly parts. Price 7d each" (undated), each with a col. phot. in front, and 32 p. \[i.e. 384 p.\], except the last included the index (p. \[385-391\], possibly also (bound in front), t.p., pref., contents, list of illus. and errata. (2) Plates hand-colored by Miss Seth or Mrs. W.G. Freeman. *American imprint*: \[1907\]... Boston (Ginn and Company), h.t., t.p., p. \[i-iv, pref., contents, list of illus.\], loose errata slip, frontisp., \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-391, *12 pl*. (incl. frontisp., unnumb., hand-colored phot. or artwork), maps (in text). *Copies*: US, USDA.