> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 16](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212078) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10167-1) LSID 10167-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21609880) QID Q21609880 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stokes, Whitley (1763-1845), Irish physician and botanist (bryologist), MD Dublin 1793; lecturer in natural history, Dublin, Trinity College 1814 (1816?); professor of medicine, Dublin 1830-1843. friend of Dawson Turner. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Stokes* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Stokes*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 333 (d. 13 Apr 1845); BB p. 290; BM 5: 2027; CSP 5: 840; DNB 54: 401. #### Biofile - Anon., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 3: 198. 1847 (refers to a memoir in Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug 1845, n.v.). - Crone, J.S., Concise dict. Irish biogr. 240. 1937. - Knowles, M.C., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 38B(10): 182. 1929. - Lett, H.W., Irish Natural. 22: 32. 1913, Ann. Rep. Proc. Belfast Natural. Field Club ser. 2. 6: 627. 1913; Proc. R. Irish Acad. 32B(7): 69. 1914-1916. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 99. 1906. - Praeger, R.L., Bot. Ireland 78. 1934; Some Irish Natural. 160. 1949. #### Composite works Contributed mosses to J. Sowerby and J.E. Smith, *Engl. bot.* (nos. 1273, 2403 e.a.). #### Eponymy *Stokesiella* (Kindberg) H.E. Robinson (1967).