> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 88](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120219) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/370-1) LSID 370-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2587046) QID Q2587046 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Backhouse, James Sr. (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Backhouse, James (1794-1869), British nurseryman and missionary of the Society of Friends who collected in the Southern Hemisphere 1831-1841. **Abbreviated name**: *Backhouse* \[standard form in IPNI: *Backh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Australian material at [[Collection MEL|MEL]] and [[Collection MO|MO]], some at [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection E|E]] – Manuscript flora of [[Collection NSW|NSW]] at [[Collection K|K]]. British material at [[Collection E|E]] (Teesdale area), [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 48; Kent, Brit. herbaria 40. 1953. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 99; BB p. 13; BM 1: 81, 6: 45. CSP 1: 147, 6: 573, 7: 65, 13: 227; HR; Kew 1: 114; LS 1428-1429; PR 11; Zander (ed. 10), p. 630. J. G. Baker, J. Bot. 7: 51-58. 1869 (portr.) - Backhouse, Sarah, Memoir of James Backhouse, by his sister. York, London 1870, ed. 2. 1877. - Babington, Memorials 470. 1897. - Austral. Dict. Biogr. 1, 1788-1850, A. H., Melbourne 1966. - Karsten, Suid-Afrikaanse Biografíese Woordenboek 1: 32-33. 1968. - Norton, Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 25: 772-773. 1900. - Maiden, J. Proc. R. Soc. NSW 42: 62-63. 1908. - Maiden, J. West-Austral. nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 6, 28. 1909. - Coats, The plant hunters 222-224. 1969. #### Note James Backhouse's son James B. junior (1825-1890; see J. Bot. 29: 353-356. 1890) accompanied his father to Norway, Ireland and Scotland; he wrote a *Monograph of British Hieracia* (1856); his herbarium is at YRK; sets of *British Hieracia* are at BM, GL, OXF. William Backhouse (1779-1844) was a cousin of J. Backhouse Sr., his herbarium was destroyed by fire. #### Eponymy *Backhousia* W.J. Hooker & W. H. Harvey (1845).