[Taxacom] Author surname Clark or James-Clark? (Henry James Clark)

[Valery MALECOT]

Dear Tony

If you look at Amrstrong (1974 - Notable southern families - here https://books.google.fr/books?id=UkwbAAAAYAAJ ) and McVaugh (1934 - James Clark, Mansfield, Christopher Clark : and allied families - here https://books.google.fr/books?id=Soc7AAAAMAAJ ), you can read the following :

Mary Marston married James Clark (1737-1789). Their son, John Clark (l767-l844) married Mary Gaines (l768-l852). Their son, Henry James Clark (l794-l874) married Mary Lewis Mansfield

Thus the family name is definitivly CLARK and the usage of James Clark seems to be a kind of dedication to his great-father "lineage" or a way to tell him appart from some other "Henry Clark"

Sincerely
Valéry Malécot
INH herbarium curator
L'Institut Agro, Agrocampus Ouest

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Objet: [Taxacom] Author surname Clark or James-Clark? (Henry James Clark)

Dear Taxacomers,

I am trying to ascertain the correct orthography for the taxonomic author
H.J. Clark / Henry James-Clark.

On Wikipedia and Wikispecies, the orthography "Henry James Clark" is used,
with default sort: Clark, Henry James (i.e., Clark is presented as the
surname). The same is presently found in AlgaeBase (he authored some
protist taxa, sometimes also included as algae) and in the VIAF author
directory at https://viaf.org/viaf/27461281/ . Even Index Nominum
Genericorum uses "H. J. Clark". IPNI/Plant Name Authors index has no entry
for him.

However his name is also found as H. James-Clark - possibly correctly in my
view?

I checked a sample original work,
https://www.ajsonline.org/content/s2-42/125/223 , and the running header is
"H. J. Clark on Anthophysa Mulleri", while the actual article is prefixed
"On the structure and habits of [...]; by H. James-Clark, A.B., B.S."

A posthumous publication of some of his work, along with a biographical
sketch, calls him "Mr Clark"...
https://books.google.com.au/books?lr=&id=zvczAQAAMAAJ - more
confusingness :) Possibly the same "sketch" is reproduced here:
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/clark-henry-j.pdf

I am thinking all instances of his name should be standardized to
"James-Clark", but would welcome other input.

By the way, the Wikipedia article "Henry James Clark" includes a facsimile
signature, available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Signature_of_Henry_James_Clark.png,
which, however reads "H. James-Clark".

In the algal/protist literature, "James-Clark" does seem to to be the most
common usage (although sometimes just "Clark"), e.g.:

BARRY S. C. LEADBEATER, CAROL MORTON, A microscopical study of a marine
species of *Codosiga* James-Clark (Choanoflagellata) with special reference
to the ingestion of bacteria, *Biological Journal of the Linnean Society*,
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 1974, Pages 337–347,
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1974.tb00728.x

Any thoughts appreciated, on which version of the surname I should include
e.g. on IRMNG, also possibly for adjusting relevant Wikipedia and
Wikispecies entries as needed.
Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees
www.irmng.org
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