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### Author
Baldwin, William (1779-1819), United States physician and botanist, plant collector in the southeastern United States and in South America.
**Abbreviated name**: *Baldw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Baldwin*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Baldwin's collections were acquired by Lewis von Schweinitz who discarded the original labels. Von Schweinitz' herbarium is now at [[Collection PH|PH]]. Further specimens are at [[Collection DWC|DWC]], [[Collection LASCA|LASCA]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]] and [[Collection P|P]]-DU; the Lambert set of Baldwin specimens is now also at [[Collection PH|PH]] (via Tuckerman).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 52.
- Ewan, Editor's Introduction, to facsimile edition of Reliquiae baldwinianae (see below) p. viii-ix.
- Miller, Taxon 19: 513. 1970.
- Stuckey, Taxon 20: 443-459. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 111; BM 1: 91; Bossert p. 23; CSP 1: 169, 12: 45; Jackson p. 494; Kew 1: 141-142; ME 1: 162, 3: 533 (bibl.); NCAB 10: 275-276; PR 377.
- Baldwin, Journal of William Baldwin, botanist of the first part of the expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. 1819, 149 p. (n.v., fide ME).
- Darlington, Reliquiae baldwinianae, Philadelphia 1843 (portr.)
- Redfield, Bot. Gaz. 8: 233-237. 1883 (bibl.)
- Harsberger, Bot. Philadelphia 119-125, 440. 1899.
- Spaulding, Popular Sci. Monthly 73: 495-497, 1908 (portr.)
- Kelly, Some American medical botanists 104-112. 1914 (portr.)
- Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 55. 1920.
- Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club. 16: 290. 1921.
- Humphrey, Makers N. Amer. botany 15-17. 1961.
- Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 460. 1967.
- Ewan, A short history of botany in the U.S. 38, 40, 89. 1969.
- Ewan, I.c. (see above) p. i-lxix. 1969 \[sources\]. Editor's introduction, to facsimile edition of *Reliquiae baldwinianae*.
- Stuckey, Taxon 20: 443-459. 1971 (Baldwin coll. in Collins' herb.)
- Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 17-18, 446. 1973.
#### Eponymy
*Balduina* Nuttall (1818, *nom. cons.*); *Baldwinia* J. Torrey & A. Gray (1842, *orth. var.*)
*Note*: *Baldwiniella* V. F. Brotherus (1906) is dedicated to David Dwight Baldwin (1831-1912), Hawaiian botanist.
#### Handwriting
Darlington, Reliquiae baldwinianae, Philadelphia 1843 (frontispiece).
### Publications
##### n.285. Reliquiae baldwinianae
**Title**
*Reliquiae baldwinianae*: selections from the correspondence of the late William Baldwin, M.D. surgeon in the U.S. navy. With occasional notes, and a short biographical memoir. Compiled by William Darlington, M.D.... Philadelphia (Kimber and Sharpless) 1843. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Reliq. baldw.*
**Notes**
*Orig. ed*.: 1-19 Jul 1843, p. \[1\]-346, \[1, corr.\], frontispiece portrait. For a commentary and additional indexes see 1969 *facsimile* edition.
*Facsimile ed*.: New York and London (Hafner) 1969, Classica botanica americana suppl. ii, p. \[ii\*-iv\*\], i-lxix (intr. Ewan, index), \[1\]-346, \[1, corr.\]. *Copy*: FAS.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 91; Jackson p. 494; Kew 1: 142; PR 377, 2051.
- Anon., Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 1: 134. 1843 (book rd. 19 Jul 1843).
- Gray, Amer. J. Sci. 46: 192-195. 1844.
- Redfield, Bot. Gaz. 8: 233-237. 1883.
- Lauener, Notes Roy. bot. Gard. Edinburgh 29(3): 405. 1969.
- Stafleu, Taxon 18: 717. 1969.