Bothalia 15, 3 & 4: 631-654 (1985) Additional biographical notes on plant collectors in southern Africa L. E. CODD* and MARY GUNN* Keywords: biographies, plant collectors, southern Africa ABSTRACT Biographical notes on plant collectors, supplementary to those already published in Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa by Mary Gunn & L. E. Codd (1981). and including some collectors not previously recorded, are provided. INTRODUCTION * Adams, Berenice Zoe Margaret (later Mrs Mat­ thews) (1925- ) In our publication Botanical Exploration o f South­ ern Africa (G unn & Codd, 1981) many collectors’ b. Springs, Transvaal, 7 June 1925; biologist and names are listed with little or no biographical infor­ housewife; ed. Natal Univ., Pietermaritzburg. mation. Attempts have since been made to collect 1943-45, graduating B.Sc. Research chemist. some of the missing data and have, in several cases, Chamber of Mines Timber Research Laboratories, met with success. The information gathered is now Johannesburg, 1946-49, investigating the preserva­ presented and the opportunity is taken to make tion of timber and fabrics against fungal attack and some corrections to the original text. In addition, fire underground, the corrosion of steel by under­ several new names, not previously recorded, are ground water, and the culture of fungi. After her added. It is also apparent that some names, taken m arriage in 1949 to D r John Q uarry M atthews, she over from lists published by Tólken (1971) and in the worked for a year in the Pasteur Institute, Salisbury Index Herbariorum series on collectors, are scarcely (now Harare), Zimbabwe, as a clinical pathologist important enough to warrant inclusion. concerned mainly with haematology, and has con­ tinued to assist her husband with similar laboratory We especially wish to thank those readers of Veld work since he settled in Richmond, Natal. & Flora who came forward with information in re­ sponse to a plea which we published in that journal. Has collected several hundred specimens, many No doubt many collectors have still been over­ with accompanying illustrations, mainly in Natal, looked, especially modern ones, in spite of appeals eastern Cape and eastern parts of Zimbabwe; in to those whose names were omitted to submit the NU. necessary documentation. We again appeal to all readers to inform us of any omissions or errors that are known to them. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COLLECTORS * An asterisk indicates that the name appeared in Gunn & Codd (1981). Abbott, Anthony Thomas Dixon (1936- ) b. Great Britain, 22 Sept. 1936; farmer; ed. Rugby School 1950-54 and Northampton Institute of Agri­ culture 1955-56. Came to South Africa in 1956 and farmed near Port Edward. Encouraged by Mr H. B. Nicholson and Mr A. E. van Wyk, he is compiling a comprehensive check list of the Umtamvuna flora, with special reference to the high degree of ende­ FIG. 1, A. T. D. Abbott Constance G. Adams mism found on Table Mountain Sandstone forma­ tions. Fig. 1. * Adams, Constance (‘Daisy’) Georgina (later Mrs Commemorated in Maytenus abbottii van Wyk. Tardrew) (1883-1968) Specimens c. 1 800; in PRU , NH and in a personal b. Cape Town, 6 Aug, 1883; d. Johannesburg, 21 herbarium . June 1968; housewife and collector. She spent the first six years of her life on her parents’ farm ‘Water­ falls’ in the Tulbagh District. Both parents took a keen interest in wild and cultivated flowers and were among the prime movers in the establishment of the first wild-flower show in Tulbagh. In 1890 the family * Botanical Research Institute. Department of Agriculture & moved to Warrenton where Connie (later called Water Supply. Private Bag X10L, Pretoria 0001. ‘Daisy’) had her early schooling. At the age of 14 she 632 Bothalia 15, 3 & 4 (1985) went to Vredenburgh High School in Cape Town Balk will, Kevin (1958- ) and won several prizes for botany, her favourite sub­ b. Cape Town, 14 Febr. 1958; student; ed. Wit- ject. During school holidays at home she collected watersrand Univ., graduating B.Sc. in 1979, H. Dip. specimens for the Albany Museum Herbarium, Dr Ed. in 1980, B.Sc. (Hons) in 1981; continuing with Schonland being a great friend of her father’s. Ph.D. at Natal Univ., Pietermaritzburg. Before leaving Cape Town, she took a short Has collected mainly in northern Transvaal and course in teaching. In 1907 the family moved to Kim­ Natal, c. 1 000 of his own numbers and 1 400 in con­ berley and she taught for tw o years. She also became junction with other collectors, chiefly J. C. Manning friendly with Dr Wilman, Director of the McGregor and M. J. Cadman; NU, PRE, J. Museum, and collected plants for the herbarium. In 1910 she married Peter Tardrew and went to live Bamps, Paul Joseph Rodolphe (1932- ) first in Bloemhof, moving to Johannesburg in 1936, where she became a keen member of the House­ b. Louvain, Belgium, 6 Feb. 1932; botanist; ed. wives’ League of S. Africa. Fig. 1. Univ. Catholique de Louvain, graduating in 1955. Curator of the African Herbarium, Jardin Botan- Specimens in GRA, KMG; also some leg. Mrs ique National de Belgique, Meise. Tardrew in PRE. Collected 240 specimens in Transvaal and Natal in Ref: Informaton supplied by her youngest daugh­ January-February 1982; in BR, GENT, LG, PRE. ter, Mrs C. G. Smits of Pinelands, 1983; Codd & G unn in Veld & Flora 70 : 67 (1984). * Barnard, Thomas Theodore (1898-1983) * Admiraal, Johannes (1916—83) d. Furzebrook, Devonshire, 20 Aug. 1983. d. Pretoria, 2 July 1983. Ref.: Rourke in Veld & Flora 70: 39-41 (1984). Ames, A. H. (fl. 1853) Assistant naturalist with the United States North Bean, Patricia Anne (née Taylor) (1930- ) Pacific Surveying Expedition, which spent seven b. Longueuil, near Montreal, Canada, 11 July weeks in Simon’s Bay in 1853. 1930; biologist and teacher; ed. Rhodes Univ. A few specimens leg. A. H, Ames are in PH but 1947-51, graduating B.Sc., and Univ. of Cape the major collection was made by Charles Wright Town, M.Sc. (1962). Teacher in charge of the Field (see Gunn & Codd, 1981). Biology and Nature Study School, Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden, 1960-64; senior lecturer Ref.: Mears in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia in biology at the Teachers’ College, Bulawayo, 133: 155 (1981) and pers. comm. A pr. 1983. 1965-75, specializing in ethology and ecology with emphasis on veld management and game ranching. * Anderson, Mrs E.: see Ethel West Returned to South Africa in 1975 and from 1977 on Apstein, Dr C. 1898). the staff of the Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town, with a {fl. special interest in Agathosma. Algologist. Originally from Kiel and accompanied the German Tiefsee-Expedition of 1898-99. Col­ Specimens c. 1 500, mainly in BOL. lected a few phanerogams around Cape Town from 6-12 Nov. 1898 and m ade a collection o f m arine al­ Behr, Cathrina Maria (1958- ) gae, also at Kerguelen, Seychelles and Sumatra; in b. Johannesburg, 5 July 1958: botanical assistant; HBG. ed. Rand Afrikaans Univ. 1977-80, graduating Ref.: pers. comm, from Prof. Kurt Walther, Ham­ B.Sc. After a short period in the botanic garden of burg, March 1977. the Botanical Research Institute, she joined the Na­ tional Botanic Gardens of South Africa and was sta­ Bain, Thomas Charles John (1830-93). tioned on the Highveld Botanic Garden, Roode- poort. b. Graaff-Reinet, C.P., 29 Sept. 1830; d. Cape Town, 29 Sept. 1893; roads engineer and builder of Specimens c. 700, from the Krugersdorp-Wit- many mountain passes; trained by his father, the watersrand area, in NBG, PRE, famous roads engineer, Andrew Geddes Bain. At the request of Sir Henry Barkly, governor of the * Bell-Marley, Harold Walter (1873-1946) Cape (q.v. Gunn & Codd, 1981), he collected a number of Stapelieae, several of which were de­ b. England (probably Richmond, Surrey), 1873. scribed as new by N. E. Brown. In an informative d. Durban, Natal, 27 Jan. 1946; naturalist and col­ booklet which he wrote, Knysna District in the Divi­ lector. Came to southern Africa as a British soldier sion o f George, Colony o f the Cape o f Good Hope, and fought in Zimbabwe in 1896, in the Anglo-Boer London 1871, he listed 41 varieties of timber. War for 18 months, and in the Bambatha Rebellion, Natal, in 1906. He returned to Britain where he re­ Commemorated in Hoodia bainii Dyer. ceived his discharge from the army and returned to Ref.: White & Sloane, The Stapelieae, Pasadena Natal shortly afterwards, obtaining a post with a firm 1937; G eorgina Lister, Reminiscences of Georgina of shipping agents at the Point in Durban. In Aug. Lister, Johannesburg 1960; Burman in DSAB 1: 39 1918 he joined the Natal Provincial Administration (1968); Storrar, A Colossus of Roads, Cape Town as Principal Fisheries Officer, based in Durban, a 1984. post he held until his retirement in 1937. Bothalia 15, 3 & 4 (1985) 633 He paid almost annual visits of several weeks du­ * Bisschop, John Henry Roosegaarde (1898-1984) ration to northern Zululand and was one of the first d. Kokstad. 27 April 1984. to make extensive collections of birds, eggs, insects (especially butterflies and beetles), crabs, fish and * Blackbeard, Gladys Ivy (1891-1975) plants in this relatively inaccessible and unhealthy part of the country. He also collected in Zimbabwe. b. Grahamstown, C.P., 19 May 1891; d. Grahams- He was one of the first to collect molluscs from the town, 11 Sept. 1975; gardener and nature lover who stomachs of deep-sea fish, many of which were un­ maintained a nursery for indigenous plants, espec­ described. ially Amaryllidaceae and succulents, on her property Scott’s Farm on the outskirts of Grahamstown, most His paintings of fish, from fresh-caught speci­ of which she collected and propagated herself.