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[edit] Henry Georges Fourcade
Hi Ganzy, I was about to create a stub of Fourcade when I came across your article which you seem to have been working on for a very long time - well done!! There's a lot more that I would like to ask (for instance, why you are interested in him?), but more relevant at the moment is the following: Why is a Frenchman called "Henry" - two sources I have consulted, "The Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa" and Codd & Gunn's book "Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa" give his name as "Georges Henri Fourcade". With all the documents available I presume he must have written out his full name many times. Rotational (talk) 17:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Oh hi Rotational, I also doubted that Henry was correct initially, as Henri is stored in the Kew Bibliographical Database and used elsewhere. Fourcade's personal papers however, are in the possession of the University of Cape Town, who might at least give a definitive answer as to what name he used himself. Lacking access to that, I accepted Storrar's conclusion which he reached after researching the family tree, in the biography “The Four Faces of Fourcade: The biography of a remarkable Forester, Land Surveyor, Botanist and Photogrammetrist”. He states on page 3: "For reasons unknown his name was spelt in the English manner." Where Storrar quotes from his correspondence, the initials G and H appear in inverse alphabetical order. This implies that Henry Georges is correct. Storrar also uses it this way throughout. Perhaps one could change the article's first sentence to have all the versions that are found in the literature. Ganzy (talk) 23:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
