Adam White (1817-1879), an entomologist at the British Museum of
Natural History between 1835 and 1863, had a keen eye for plants. He
put together two botanical scrapbooks, of which only one was
completed; both contain specimens presented to him by their
collectors. The scrapbooks were donated to the University of Toronto
by a descendant of White's, and are now held in the Green Plant
Herbarium of the Royal Ontario Museum (TRT). Approximately half of the
specimens in the incomplete scrapbook were collected by J. D. Hooker
during the Antarctic expedition of H.M. Ships Erebus and
Terror in 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James
Clark Ross. Of particular interest are three specimens that we believe
are type material of a new genus, Lyallia, and of two other
species (Azorella selago, Colobanthus subulatus), that
were described by Hooker in his Botany of the Antarctic Voyage
(1844-1860). The remaining specimens were collected in Europe and the
Holy Land by Joseph Woods, W.C. Hewitson, and H. Bonar. We made
digital photographs of the 44 pages and 78 individual specimens,
verified specimen names, and recorded subsequent name changes. We also
compiled biographies of the collectors, and produced maps of the
specimen localities. These materials were used to produce an online
catalogue of Adam White's unfinished scrapbook that is accessible at
http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/courses/bot299y/index.html. This
research was carried out as a Research Opportunity Program (ROP299)
project in the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto.
Key words: Azorella selago, Colobanthus subulatus, J. D. Hooker, Joseph Woods, Lyallia kerguelensis, scrapbook herbaria