Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1972 (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
Three letters and a description in one folder
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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)
Histoire archivistique
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
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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