> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 241](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264968) of TL-2 Suppl. 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|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Backhouse, James Sr. (1794-1869), British nurseryman, missionary, traveller and botanist; purchased a nursery at York 1815, active Quaker minister from 1824; sent out as a missionary to Australia September 1831, arriving in Hobart, February 1832, travelled 1832-1838 in Tasmania, New South Wales, South and Western Australia; to Mauritius and South Africa 1838-1840, back in England 1841, again in charge of his nursery, visited Norway 1851, 1853, 1860. **Abbreviated name**: *Backhouse* \[standard form in IPNI: *Backh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Australian material at [[Collection MEL|MEL]] and [[Collection MO|MO]], some at [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]; British material at [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection K|K]]. − See also C. Simms (1976). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 99 (b. 8 Jul 1794, Darlington, d. 20 Jan 1869, York); BB p. 13; BM 1: 81, 6: 45; Clokie p. 123; CSP 1: 147, 6: 573, 7: 65, 13: 227; Desmond p. 26 (b. 8 Jul 1794, Darlington, Durham; d. 20 Jan 1869, York); HR; IH 2: 48; Jackson p. 402; Kew 1: 114; LS 1428-1429; MW p. 528; Rehder 1: 505, 2: 21, 368, 792, 3: 283; TL-2/1: 88-89; Tucker 1: 48. #### Biofile - Anon., Austral. dict. biogr. 1, 1788-1850, A-H, Melbourne 1966; A fine field for botanizing, Sydney 30. 1981 (Catalogue Exhibition at 13-th. Int. Bot. Congr. Sydney). - Babington, C.C., Memorials 470. 1897. - Backhouse, J., Sr., A narrative of a visit to the Australian Colonies, London 1843 (xviii, 560, cxliv p.; botany, Appendix p. xxxi-xl); id. to Mauritius and S. Africa, London 1844 (n.v.). - Backhouse, Sarah, Memoir of James Backhouse by his sister. York, London 1870, ed. 2. 1877. - Bailey, F.M., Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 8(2): 24. 1890. - Baker, J.G., J. Bot. 7: 51-58. 1869; Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland 14(1): 82-83. 1902. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 382 \[index\]. 1980. - Carr, D.J. and S.G.M. Carr, eds., People and plants in Australia 17, 28, 40, 195, 228, 249. 1981. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 222-223. 1969. - Davis, P., Arch. nat. Hist. 16(3): 247-260. 1989 (major treatment, biogr., mss., travels, portr., list of publ.). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 9. 1934. - Gilbert, L.A., Victorian Naturalist 68: 175-178. 1952 (visit to Victoria); The Royal botanic gardens Sydney 179, 188. 1988. - Gunn, M. and L.E. Codd, Bot. Expl. S. Africa 84-85. 1981 (accounts of his stay in S. Africa 1838-1840). - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts (Melbourne) 10. 1978. - Hooker, J.D., Fl. Tasmania 1: 125-126. 1856. - Karsten, Mia, S. Afr. Biogr. Woordenboek 1: 32-33. 1968 (further references, detailed treatment). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 40. 1953. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 362, 389. 1985. - Maiden, J.H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 772-773. 1900, 42: 62-63. 1908; J. West Austral. nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 6, 28. 1909; Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 1909: 13, 172, 1910: 374; Australas. Ass. Adv. Sci. 1907: 172-173. 1909, 1909: 374. 1910; Victorian Naturalist 25: 102. 1908. - Mozley, M., A guide to the manuscript records of Australian science 8-9. 1966. - Simms, J., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 7(4): 369. 1976. - Souster, J.E.S., W. Austral. Naturalist 1(6): 117-118. 1948. - Willis, J., Victorian Naturalist 66: 87. 1949. - Wilson, E.H., Plant hunting 189. 1927. - Woolls, W., The progress of botanical discovery in Australia, Sydney 1869, p. 35. #### Manuscripts Journals and letters (Friend's House, London), Records and journal 1831-1841, List of plants of Norfolk 1835, Recollections of his past life 1866-1868 (all Mitchell Library, Sydney). #### Composite works *Index plantarum*, or indigenous plants of Van Diemen's Land, Hobart Town, \[1835\]. Oct., *in* Ross's Hobart Town Almanack for 1835, p. 61-114; see also 1834, p. 129-134 (preliminary) (n.v.). ### Publications ##### n.19.844. A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies **Title** *A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies*,... London (Hamilton, Adams, and Co....), York (John L. Linney,...) 1843. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. visit Austral. col.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1843 (p. xviii: dated 15 Dec 1842), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-560, \[i\]-cxliv (append.), 3 unnumb. maps, 15 etchings in text. *Copy*: U. ##### n.19.845. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa **Title** *A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa*, London (Hamilton, Adams, and Co....), York (John L. Linney) 1844. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. visit Mauritius S. Afr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1844 (p. xvi signed 20 Mar 1844), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xvi, map, \[1\]-648, \[i\]-lvi, 15 unnumb. liths. (in text). *Copy*: U.