| AdminHistory | Antony Gepp was born in Essex and educated at Felsted School and St John's College, Cambridge. He took the BA in 1885, and obtained an Assistant post in the Museum in January 1886. He and George Murray were between them responsible for the cryptogams, Gepp taking on the mosses and liverworts and later the marine algae. On the retirement of William Carruthers in 1895, Gepp took on the ferns as well. His official career lasted until 1927, when he retired at the age of 65. He continued to come to the Department regularly to work on ferns and other cryptogamic groups until his death in 1955, following a fall on the Museum staircase.
About 1900 Gepp married Ethel Sarel Barton (1864-1922), an algologist who was a voluntary worker in the Department.
Gepp was not a prolific writer. He contributed lists and descriptions of cryptogamic groups to a number of catalogues and expedition reports published by the Museum and elsewhere, as well as short papers and notes on fossil plants, hepatics, mosses, fungi, marine algae and ferns.
Marine algae reports:
Report to government of Ceylon re pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with list of marine algae by ES Barton, 1903
National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery), report 1907
Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Indian Ocean 1905, report 1909
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, report 1912
British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova), report 1917
Articles:
Rhipidosiphon & Callipsygma, 1905
Antarctic algae, 1905
New South Wales algae, 1906
Lessonia, 1906
New siphoneous algae, 1909
Kermadecs algae, collected 1908 by RB Oliver, 1911
References:
R[endle], A B, 1927. Mr Antony Gepp. Natural History Magazine, 1: 95-96. |