William West (botanist)
William West (born February 22, 1848 in Woodhouse Moor , Leeds , † May 14, 1914 ) was a British botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " West ".
Live and act
West was first from 1872 pharmacist in Bradford and from 1886 lecturer for botany at Bradford Technical College. He was Secretary of the Botany Department of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union and in 1899 its President.
From 1887 he was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
He dealt with mosses, lichens, roses and contributed to the flora of West Yorkshire by Frederic Arnold Lees (1888), but was particularly a specialist in freshwater algae, working with his son George Stephen West . Both wrote a four-volume monograph on ornamental algae (Desmidiaceae) for the Ray Society.
He was married and had two sons and a daughter. His sons William West junior (1875-1901) and George Stephen West were also botanists.
Honors
The algae species Westella De Wild are named after him . and Westellopsis C.C. Jao .
Fonts
- with George Stephen West: A monograph of the British Desmidiaceae, 4 volumes, Ray Society 1904, 1905, 1908, 1912 (volume 5 appeared in 1923 with N. Carter as author)
literature
- Obituary in Journal of Botany, 52, 1914, 161-164
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | West, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodhouse Moor |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1914 |