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> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/435-1) LSID 435-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21505607) QID Q21505607
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> [!example] See also [[Balsamo, Francesco|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Balsamo, Francesco (1850-1922), Italian botanist (algologist), educated at Napoli, Dipl. Sci. nat. Univ. Napoli 1874, associated with the Napoli Botanical Garden and its director V. de Cesati until 1881, assistant ib. 1881-1882, idem with Pasquale at the Botanical Institute, later idem with E. Delpino, professor of biology id. 1900.
**Abbreviated name**: *Balsamo* \[standard form in IPNI: *Balsamo*\]
#### Herbarium and types
If any at [[Collection NAP|NAP]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 114 (b. 22 Mai 1850); BL 2: 345, 626; BM 1: 93, 6: 54; De Toni 1: ix, 2: xi, 4: iv; LS 30.816; Morren ed. 10, p. 85; Nordstedt p. 3, 7; Rehder 1: 117; Saccardo 1: 21 (b. 22 Mai 1850); TL-2/1: 113; see also 3979.
#### Biofile
- Cavara, F., Bull. Orto bot. r. Univ. Napoli 7: 281-289. "1924" (i.e. 1927) (biogr., portr., bibl.; b. 20 Mai 1850 sic, Napoli, d. 9 Nov 1922).
- VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. Diat. 6: 3510. 1978.
#### Note
Author, with Michele Geremicca, *Botanici e botanofili napolitani, in* Bull. Orto bot.
r. Univ. Napoli 3: 37-74. 1913 (with portr.).
### Publications
##### n.20.143. Homonymiae algarum
**Title**
*Homonymiae algarum* in plantis animalibusque tentamen... Neapoli (Typis Regiae Scientiarum Academiae apud Michaëlem de Rubertis) 1888. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Homonym. alg.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1888, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-25. *Copy*: WU.
##### n.20.144. Index
**Title**
*Index* ad F. Traug. *Kuetzingii species algarum*, unicum editionem (1849) perfectus ... Neapoli (ex typographia Tornese) 1892. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1892, p. \[1\]-64. *Copy*: FH. − See TL-2/3979, for this index for F.T. Kützing, *Species algarum* 1849.
##### n.20.145. Prospectus. Iconum algarum index
**Title**
*Prospectus. Iconum algarum index* adjecto generum algarum omnium indice systematico digessit Franc. Balsamo... Naples Novembre 1894. Qu.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Nov 1894-Mai 1895 (Prospectus dated Nov 1894, but this date may be that of writing the introductory text; in a letter to an unknown correspondent, in L copy of 21 Apr 1895, part 1 may be expected to be ready in Mai 1895. This prospectus contains 2 p. "prospectus" and p. \[1\]-32 as a sample. This agrees with Part 1 of the Index, see below), p.\[i-ii\], \[1\]-32. − *Copy*: L.
##### n.20.146. Iconum algarum index
**Title**
*Iconum algarum index* adjecto generum algarum omnium indice systematico. \[Napoli 1895-1901\]. Qu.
**Notes**
*1*: \[1\]-32. 1895 (Nat. Nov. Nov 1895, Bot. Centralbl. 23 Oct 1895).
*2*: 33-64. 1897.
*3*: 65-96. 1897 (\[?\], but Nat. Nov. Oct 1898).
*4*: 97-128. 1898 (Nat. Nov. Oct 1898).
*5*: 129-160. 1899 (Nat. Nov. Feb 1899; actual publ. possibly late 1898).
*6*: 161-192. 1900.
*7*: 193-224. 1900 (ÖBZ 1 Dec 1900).
*8*: 225-328. 1901.
*Copy*: PCS.