> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 612](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333751) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9687-1) LSID 9687-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4758589) QID Q4758589 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sinclair, Andrew (ca. 1796-1861), British physician and plant collector; surgeon Royal Navy from ca. 1824; on HMS Sulphur 1834-1842; surgeon convict ship in Australia 1842; colonial secretary New Zealand 1844-1856; collected in Australia, New Zealand and in regions visited by the Sulphur; actively pursuing botanical collecting in retirement; drowned on an expedition nr Mt. Sinclair. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Sinclair* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Sinclair*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]. – Other material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection MEDEL|MEDEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MSE|MSE]] (coll. Edinburgh), [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 281; BB p 276-277; Clokie p. 245; CSP 5: 707; Desmond p. 561 (d. 25 Mar 1861, by drowning); DNB 18: 289-290; HR; Lasègue p. 328, 386; SK 1: 485; TL-2/2438; Urban-Berl. p. 314. #### Biofile - Anderson, A.W., Gard. Chron. 150(1): 8-9. 1961 (commemor. death). - Anon., Bonplandia 9: 223. 1861 (d.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 8: 503. 1862 (d.); Phytologist 5: 284-286. 1861 (obit., taken from the "Lytteton Times"); Proc. Linn. Soc., London 1861/2: xcv-xcvi (obit.). - Barrali, J.A., Rev. hortic. 1861: 384 (obit. not.). - Belcher, E., Narrative of a voyage round the world performed in HMS Sulphur during the years 1836-1842, London 1843, 2 vols. - Boase, F., Modern English biogr. 2: 586. 1965. - Cheeseman, T.F., Manual New Zealand Fl. xxvi-xxvii. 1906. - Cockayne, L., Veg. New Zealand 4. 1921. - Glenn, R., Bot. expl. New Zealand 107-114, 176. 1950. - Haast, H.F. v., Life and rimes of Sir Julius von Haast 173. 1948 (n.v.). - Hooker, J.D., Gard. Chron. 1861: 773 (obit.). - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 1: 416, 452. 1918. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen., Brit. Irish herb. 244. 1984. - McVaugh, R., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 311-312. 1978 (Mexican coll. Sulphur). - Schlechtendal, D.F.L. von, Bot. Zeit. 19: 336. 1861 (obit.). #### Eponymy *Mt. Sinclair, New Zealand*.