> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1002](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190473) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8755-1) LSID 8755-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4719991) QID Q4719991 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Russell, Alexander (ca. 1715-1768), British (Scottish) physician and naturalist, MD Glasgow; physician to the English factory at Aleppo, Syria, ca. 1740-1753; to St. Thomas's Hospital London 1759-1768. **Abbreviated name**: *Al. Russell* \[standard form in IPNI: *Russell*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; some further material at [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection S|S]]. See also V. Allorge (1968). – The material at [[Collection BM|BM]] contains Russell's Aleppo plants (originally in herb. Banks), and the types of Banks and Solander of their text in Nat. hist. Aleppo ed. 2. 2: 237-271. 1794 (Murray 1904). Some Aleppo material was collected by Alexander Russell's half-brother Patrick \[1727-1805\]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 504 (epon.); Barnhart 3: 193; BB p. 264; BM 4: 1769; Desmond pp. 534 (d. 28 Nov 1768); DNB 49: 426-427; Dryander 3: 472; Frank 3 (Anh.): 87; Hegi 5(2): 1032; Herder p. 58; Jackson p. 510; Kew 4: 551; Lasègue p. 131, 137; NI 583, see also 1: 110; PR, ed. 1: 886; Rehder 1: 479; Tucker 1: 614. #### Biofile - Allorge, V., Rev. bryol. lichénol. 35: 406. 1968 (in bryol. herb. Raymond Benoist, at PC, historical collections by "Alexander Russell" sic. It is not clear who is meant; this may have been e.g. Alexander Russell 1814-1878, Scottish naturalist). - Anon., Gentleman's Mag. 1771 (March): 109-111 (obit.). - Boissier, E., Fl. Orient 1: xxiii. 1867. - Fothergill, J., *in* J.C. Lettsom, Memoir of John Fothergill 1786, p. 241-259 (obit.). - Fox, R.H., Dr, John Fothergill and his friends 118-120. 1919. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 40. 1911. - Hulth, J.M. & A.H. Uggia, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 168. 1943. - Munk, W., The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London ed. 2. 2: 230-231. 1878 (brief sketch). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 179. 1904 (coll. BM). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 355. 1969. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 725. 1863. - Smith, E., Life of Joseph Banks 116. 1911. #### Eponymy *Russela* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var. of Russelia* Linnaeus f. (1782)); *Russelia* \[sic\] Linnaeus f. (1782); *Note*: *Russelia* N.J. Jacquin (1760) probably also honors Alexander Russell. ### Publications ##### n.9828. The natural history of Aleppo **Title** *The natural history of Aleppo*, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the europeans for their preservation. By Alex. Russell, M.D. London (printed for A. Millar, in the Strand) mdccclvi \[sic, should be 1756\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. hist. Aleppo*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1756 (NZgS 3 Feb 1757), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-266, \[1-9, index; 10 err., *pl. 1-16* uncol. copp. G.D.E. Ehret, J.S. Miller). *Copies*: FI, G, Teyler. – Plants on p. 30-46. *Dutch translation*: 1762, p. i-vi, 1-294, *pl. 1-8. Naauwkeurige en natuurlijke beschrijving van de stad Aleppo*... uyt het Engels vert. door L.T. Gronovius. Leiden (Corn. de Pecker & Corn. van Hoogeveen jr.). 1762. Qu. (*Naauwk. beschr. Aleppo*). *Ed. 2*: 1794, in 2 vols. *The natural history of Aleppo*. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague... The second edition. Revised, enlarged, and illustrated with notes. By Pat. Russel \[Patrick Russell (1727-1805)\] 2 vols. London (Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson,...) 1794. Qu. *Copies*: G, PH, USDA. *1*: frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xxiv, \[1\]-446, \[i\]-xxiii, \[xxiv, err.\], *pl. 1-4.* *2*: p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-430, i-xxxiv, \[1-25, index; 26, err.\], *pl. 1/2, 3-16* (uncol. copp., id., nos. *9-16* plants). Text on plants (J. Banks and D.C. Solander) on p. 237-271. *German translation* of ed. 2: 1797-1798, 2 vols. *Naturgeschichte von Aleppo*, enthaltend eine Beschreibung der Stadt, und der vornehmsten Naturerzeugnisse in ihrer Nachbarschaft, zugleich mit einer Nachricht von dem Himmelsstriche, den Einwohnern, und ihren Krankheiten, insbesondere der Pest; von Alexander Russell... Zwote Ausgabe. Durchgesehen vermehrt und mit Anmerkungen erläutert von Patrick Russell,... Uebersezt \[sic\] mit einigen Anmerkungen von Johann Friedrich Gmelin \[1748-1804\], ... Göttingen (bei Johann Georg Rosenbusch) 1797-1798, 2 vols. Oct. (*Naturgesch. Aleppo*). *Copy*: USDA. *1*: 1797 (p. xxviii: 17 Apr 1797), p. \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-440, \[1\]-176, map. *2*: 1798, *Beschreibung der Thiere und Gewächse* p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-280. *Nachricht von dem Zustande der Gelehrsamkeit*, p. \[iii\]-vi, \[1\]-242. – Botany on p. 139-197, *pl. 9-16* of *Beschreibung*. *Note*: see A.B. Rendle (1900) and A. Eig (1937), cited under Patrick Russell, below, for notes on ed. 2.