> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 224](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265421) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16225-1) LSID 16225-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354691) QID Q4354691 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bloxam, Andrew (1801-1878), British clergyman and naturalist, educated at Rugby school, studied at Worcester College, Oxford 1820, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, naturalist on the Blonde Frigate, took holy orders, perpetual curate of Twycross, Leicestershire 1839-1871 and rector of Harborough Magna, Warwickshire 1871-1878. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Bloxam* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Bloxam*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (coll. "Blonde" voyage, lichens and Rubi), [[Collection K|K]] (fungi), further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection LSR|LSR]] (lich.), [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. − Herbarium formerly at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire (J. Bot. 25: 40-41, 145. 1887). #### Manuscripts and letters BM (lich.) and K (fungi). − Diary of voyage to the Sandwich Islands publ. in B.P. Bishop Museum, Special Publ. 10, 1925. − Correspondence on lichens at BM, id. mss. Leicestershire cellular cryptogamia (see Hawksworth and Seaward 1970, nos. 250-251). − See G.D.R. Bridson et al. 1980, p. 385. − See also BM 1: 178. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 605 (Rubus Bloxamii); Barnhart 1: 204 (b. 22 Sep 1801, d. 2 Feb 1878); BB p. 36; BL 2: 254; BM 1: 178; Clokie p. 133; Desmond p. 71-72 (further info. and refs.); DNB 5: 264; IH 2: 80; Jackson p. 504; Kew 1: 270; Rehder 2: 302, 306, 309; Stevenson p. 1236. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 25(Bibl.): 43. 1878 (d. 2 Feb 1878, Harborough, Warwickshire); Bot. Not. 1879: 31 (d.); Bot. Centralbl. 50: 191. 1892 (d.); Gard. Chron. 1924 (1 Mar): 120-121; The manuscript papers of British Scientists 1600-1940. 10. 1982. - Bagnall, J.E., Fl. Warwickshire 501-502. 1891. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 209.5, 229.22, 229.278, 302.1, 346.11, 383.1. 1980. - Edees, E.S., Fl. Staffordshire 19. 1972 (visit Warslow Hall 1853). - Foggitt, G., Ann. Brit. Exch. Club, Rep. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 283. 1932. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1900. 53. 1980 (no. 363). - Hawksworth, D.C. and M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 1568-1975: 20-21, 58, 1977. - Horwood, A.R. and C.W.F. Noel, The flora of Leicestershire and Rutland ccviii. 1933. - Jackson, B.D., Kew Bull. 1901: 212. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 44. 1957. - Kent, D.H. and D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 90 (Rosa, Rubus). - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11(1): 7. 1979. - Lovie, J.M., Rep. Rugby School Nat. Hist. Soc. 1979-1980, 1980-1981: 17-20. 1982 (coll. Rubi found at Rugby School). - McCaughey, V., Hawaiian For. Agr. 15: 508. 1918 (on B's visit and collecting at Hawaii). - Murray, G., *in* Hist. Coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 135. 1904 (coll.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 76, *pl. 145.* 1905 (portr.). - Woodward, B.B., *in* Hist. Coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Museum 1: 31. 1904 (coll.). #### Composite works - (1) *Of the natural history of the Sandwich Islands*, selected from the papers of A. Bloxam, *in* G.A. Byron, *Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands*, London 1826, *Appendix no. 3.* - (2) *The Botany* by the Rev. A. Bloxam and C. Babington, *in* Thomas Rossell Potter, *The history and antiquities of Charnwood Forest*, London 1842, p. 35-62. See also A.B. Jackson, J. Bot. 44: 261-266. 1906 (annotated list vasc. and cell. pl.). - (3) *Mosses* found in the neighbourhood *of Ventnor*, Bonchurch, and Appuldurcombe, *in* Edmund Venables, *The Isle of Wight*. A guide..., London 1860. − *Mosses* by Bloxam with additions by Venables, *Lichens* by Bloxam with additions by T. Salwey on p. 503-505, *Fungi* id. - (4) See also R.B. Freeman, Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1900. 1980, p. 53, no. 363: *A description of Bradgate Park* 1829(?), n.v. - (5) See also H.C. Watson, *Topographical botany* ed. 2. 538. 1883 (contr. to London Catalogue, ed. 2).