Английская Википедия:Florence Mary Paterson
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Florence Mary Paterson, née Hallack, also known as Mrs. T.V. Paterson,[1] (15 July, 1869, Port Elizabeth – 5 June, 1936, Redhouse) was a South African plant collector. Her specimens are kept in the herbarium of Albany Museum and the Bolus Herbarium of the University of Cape Town.[2] She is honored in the plant name patersoniae[3] and genus name Neopatersonia.[1]
Early life
Florence Mary Hallack was born on 15 July, 1869 in Port Elizabeth to English businessman and amateur botanist Russell Hallack and his wife Sarah, née Geard.[4] She was the youngest of the nine children in the family.[2] Hallack was encouraged by her father to observe the local flora and learn natural history.[5] In 1895, Hallack married to Thomas Vernon Paterson of Redhouse.[2]
Career
After marriage Paterson made a comprehensive collection of the flora of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage area.[4] Specimens from her collections had not been seen since Karl Ludwig Phillip Zeyher collected in that area in 1838.[6] Paterson sent her specimens mainly to the professor of botany at Rhodes University and curator (later director) of the Albany Museum, Selmar Schönland.[6] Paterson presented the first batch of specimens in 1908, followed by over 500 specimens in 1909. All her specimens were in a good condition, including undescribed species, and became a valuable addition to the museum's herbarium.[2]
In 1910 Paterson donated the Albany Museum plants from Port Alfred, Steytlervill and Cape Town, and in 1912 plants from Hanover, Uniondale, Natal and the Transvaal.[2]
In 1920s Paterson assisted the botanist Edith Stephens of South African College, collecting specimens of the region's stonecrop family, the charophytes.[4]
Florence Mary Paterson died on 5 June 1936 in Redhouse.[5]
Honors
Schönland named the genus Neopatersonia (Fam. Liliaceae) after Paterson in 1912.[7] He also mentioned Paterson's contribution to collecting rare specimens in his letter to Sir David Prain in 1909,[8] and specifically thanked her in Volume 1 of his Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa (1919).[6]
Harry Bolus also thanked Paterson for collecting specimens in his Volume 3 of Orchids of South Africa (1913).[5]
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