Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1972 (Criação)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
Three letters and a description in one folder
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia administrativa
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
After graduating with a degree in Botany from the University of Edinburgh in 1951, Andrew John Charles Grierson (1929-1990) was appointed Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A taxonomist, he specialised in Compositae and the Floras of Turkey and Bhutan. (From Obituary by I.C. Hedge and D.G. Long in the Edinburgh Journal of Botany, v.51(2), iii-vii, 1994 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7472248)
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
A series of three letters and a description relating to the emergence of a new genus which were filed with the herbarium specimen in question - Klasea lasiocephala
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Three letters and a description relating to the emergence of a new genus after some saussurea-type specimens collected by Siehe were studied and didn't fit into any genus in existence at that time. Correspondence between Andrew Grierson, Charles Jeffrey and Professor Wagenitz, and reference made to Peter Davis. October - November 1972