> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 7](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066309) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11300-1) LSID 11300-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21611955) QID Q21611955 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wager, Horace Athelstan (1876-1951), English botanist; went to South Africa 1903; professor of botany and zoology Transvaal University College (later Pretoria University). **Abbreviated name**: *Wager* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wager*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PRE|PRE]]. – Some further material (mosses) in [[Collection BM|BM]] (incl. some holotypes), [[Collection H|H]]. #### Bibliography and biography Lenley p. 426; SBC p. 134. #### Biofile - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 125. 1978. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 366. 1981 (portr; main data). - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 519. 1977 (coll.). #### Eponymy *Wageria* F.L. Stevens et Dalbey (1918). #### Note - (1) H.A. Wager's son, Vincent Athelstan Wager (b. 1904) published on phytopathology and mycology, see E. Doidge, Bothalia 5: 1027. 1950. Herbarium material at PRE. - (2) Harold William Taylor Wager (1882-1929), lecturer in botany, Yorkshire College of see Desmond p. 632, and A.C.S., Proc. R. Soc. B. 106: xix-xxii. 1930. ### Publications ##### n.16.477. A check list of the mosses of South Africa **Title** *A check list of the mosses of South Africa*... Pretoria (Buckley & Van Duyn,...) 1917. **Abbreviated title**: *Check list moss. S. Afr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1917 (US rd. 6 Nov 1917; J. Bot. Nov 1917), p. \[1\]-20. *Copies*: PH, US, USDA.