> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 294](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265021) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/421-1) LSID 421-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787698) QID Q787698 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Baldwin, William|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Baldwin, William (1779-1819), United States physician, botanist and plant collector; studied medicine at the University of Tennessee (1802), surgeon on a Philadelphia merchant vessel sailing to China 1805-1806, M.D. University of Pennsylvania 1807, practiced at Wilmington, Delaware 1807-1811, and Georgia 1811-1812, surgeon in the U.S. navy at St. Mary's and Savanna 1812-1817, visited Florida 1817, and S. American ports 1817-1818, ultimately surgeon and botanist to Long's expedition up the Missouri, died at Franklin, Missouri 1819. **Abbreviated name**: *Baldw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Baldwin*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 110. Additional holdings: [[Collection WECO|WECO]], [[Collection WLU|WLU]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 111; BM 1: 91; Bossert p. 23; CSP 1: 169, 12: 45; Ewan ed. 1: 155; IH 2: 52; Jackson p. 494; Kew 1: 141-142; Lenley p. 17-18, 446; ME 1: 162, 3: 533; NCAB 10: 275-276; PR 377, ed. 1: 418; Rehder 1: 307; TL-2/1: 110-111; Tucker 1: 55. #### Biofile - Baldwin, W., 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). - Barnhart, J.H., Torreya 9(12): 250. 1909; J. New York Bot. Gard. 22: 125. 1921 (biogr. sketch, b. 27 Mar 1779, Newlin, Chester County, Pa., d. 1 Sep 1819, Franklin, Mo.), 24: 65-66, 109, 111, 152. 1923, 27: 199. 1926; Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 290. 1921; Bartonia 16: 20-21. 1935. - Darlington, W., Reliquiae baldwinianae: selections from the correspondence of the late William Baldwin, Philadelphia 1843 (facsimile ed. 1969 Hafner Publishing Group). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 10. 1954 (2 letters in J.E. Smith papers at LINN). - Ewan, J., Introduction to facsimile ed. of W. Darlington, Reliquiae Baldwinianae i-lxix. New York and London 1969 (extensive details on B's colls. and expeditions, chronology, previous studies on B.). - Ewan, J. et al., A short history of botany in the U.S. 38, 40, 89. 1969 (see also Ewan's introduction to facs. ed. of *Reliquiae Baldwinianae*, see Darlington). - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 355. 1877. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 460 \[index, many entries\]. 1967. - Greene, J.C., Amer. Sci. age Jefferson 464 (index). 1984. - Harshberger, J.W.C., Botanists Philadelphia 119-125, 440. 1899. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers Amer. bot. 15-16. 1961. - Kastner, J., A world of naturalists 262, 263. 1978. - Kelly, H.A., Some American med. botanists 104-112. 1914 (portr.). - Kelly, H.A. and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 55. 1920. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 158. 1978 (B. coll. with Muhlenberg), 133: 144. 1981 (more than 3000 specim. at PH); Taxon 31: 112. 1982 (on a B. specim. in P-DU). - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 513. 1970. - Murrill, W.A., Hist. foundat. bot. Florida 11. 1945. - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 21: 46. 1942; Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 94(2): 148. 1950. - Redfield, J.H., Bot. Gaz. 8: 233-237. 1883 (sketch of his life; details on exp. to Missouri). - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 38, 48, 52, 172. 1942. - Spaulding, P., Popular Sci. Monthly 73: 495-497. 1908 (portr.). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 32. 1981 (mss. at HU). - Stuckey, R.L., Taxon 20: 443-459. 1971 (B's coll. in Collins' herb.); Brittonia 30(1): 96-101. 1978 (type specimen of *Rhynchospora* in an unstudied coll. of B. in PH). #### Handwriting Smith, Earle, Bartonia 28: *pl. 2.* 1957; Darlington, W., Reliquiae Baldwiniana, Philadelphia 1843, frontisp..