Collectors & Biographies

[David Price]

I rather think THOMAS THORP was not a collector; he was a Guildford Bookseller, prominent in that trade in his day, a century ago. The firm traded from 1883 to 2003.

It would seem he acquired the herbarium of Frederick Thompson Mott, a Leicester wine merchant, and sold it to Charles Bailey in 1908.

Mott was also a bryologist. Mark Lawley of BBS has a mini-biography of him in his paper on members of the Moss Exchange Club. That paper contains biographies of other bryologists whose names frequently appear as collectors in herbaria@home and is therefore a rich source of information.