> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 127](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120258) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/515-1) LSID 515-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276825) QID Q276825 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Barton, Benjamin Smith (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Barton, Benjamin Smith (1766-1815), American botanist at Philadelphia; uncle of W. P. C. Barton. **Abbreviated name**: *Barton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Barton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]] (with the herbarium of William Paul Crillon Barton). *Ref*.: IH 2: 58. - Barnhart, Bartonia 9: 35-42. 1926. - Pennell, Bartonia 9: 20. 1926. - Pennell, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 86: 108-122. 1942. - Pennell, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 94: 139-144. 1950. - Ewan, DSB 1: 485. 1970. - Stuckey, Taxon 20: 444. 1971. #### Manuscripts Original manuscripts, papers and letters at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Boston Public Library, the Library of Congress and in the private collection of J. R. Delafield. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 132; BB p. 22; BM 1: 105, 6: 61; Bossert p. 27; CSP 1: 199-200; DAB 2: 17-18; Dawson p. 37; Jackson p. 36; Kew 1: 171; ME 1: 34, 163; 3: 544 \[index\]; NI 82; Nickles p. 74; Plesch p. 132-134; PR 435-439; Quenstedt p. 23; Zander ed. 10, p. 632. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 3: 290. 1798. - Barton, W. P. C., Benjamin Smith Barton. Philadelphia 1816, 34 p.; The Portfolio ser. 4. 1(4): 275-287. 1816 (portr.) - Barton, W. P. C. in B. S. Barton, Elements of botany ed. 4. 1836, p. 11-34. - Youmans, Pioneers of science in America 81-89. 1896. - Harshberger, Botanists Philadelphia 108-117, 440. 1899. - Lloyd and Lloyd, Bull. Lloyd Libr. Bot. Reproduction series 1: 1-11. 1900 (biogr., portr.) - Stone, Bird-Lore 7: 193-194. 1905. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 177. 1903, 3(3): 191. 1905. - Kelly, Some American medical botanists 88-96. 1914. - Packard in Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 68-69. 1920. - Smith, Papers Lancaster County Historical Society 28(4): 57-66. 1924. - Pennell, Bartonia 9: 17-34. 1926. - Middleton, Ann. med. Hist. ser. 2. 8: 477-491. 1936 (portr.) - McAtee, Castanea 3: 85-117. 1938 (journal visit Virginia 1802). - Packard, Annual Rep. Penn. Hospital 190: 6-8. 1941. - Pennell, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 86: 108-122. 1942 (detailed study). - Harper, Library Bull. Amer. philos. Soc. 1945: 27-38. - Graustein, Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. Biogr. 85: 423-438. 1961. - Humphrey, Makers N. Amer. botany 21-23. 1961. - Bell, J. Hist. Med. allied Sci. 19: 419-421. 1964. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 460. 1967. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 161 \[index\]. 1969. - Ewan, DSB 1: 484-486. 1970 (q.v. for further secondary literature). - Bell, J. Hist. Med. allied Sci. 26: 197-203. 1971. - Ewan, Amer. philos. Soc. Report Comm. Research 1973: 569-571. 1974 (on a survey of Barton's papers in the Society's library). #### Eponymy (genera) *Bartonia* Mühlenberg ex Willdenow (1801, *nom. cons.*); *Bartonia* Pursh ex Sims (1812); (journal): *Bartonia* a botanical annual. Proceedings of the Philadelphia Botanical Club. Philadelphia, Pa. Vol. 1-x, 1908-x. (Also dedicated to William Paul Crillon Barton (1786-1856), q.v.) #### Handwriting Castanea 3: 117. 1938; Ann. med. Hist. ser. 2. 8: 484-485. 1936 (see also above under "manuscripts"). ### Publications ##### n.318. Observations on some parts of natural history **Title** *Observations on some parts of natural history*; to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Part I. London (author). \[1787\] Oct. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Obs. nat. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1787, p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-v, 7-76, *1 pl. Copy*: Ewan. *Ref*.: ME 3: 354. ##### n.319. Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States **Title** *Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States*. Read before the Philadelphia medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798... Fidem non abstulit error. Philadelphia (Way & Groff) 1798. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Coll. mater. med. U.S.* **Notes** *First part*: 1798 (p. iv: 12 Mar 1798),p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-49, index to part 1 by Lloyd Library in 1900 reprint p. \[i\]-iv. Reprinted Philadelphia (R. Carr) 1801. *Second part*: Aug-Oct 1804 (p. ii, deposit 14 Feb 1804; Med. Rep. rd. Aug-Oct), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-53, index to part 2 by Lloyd Library in 1900 reprint p. \[v\]-vii. *Ed. 3* (of part 1; ed. 2 of part 2): Philadelphia (Earle) 1810. *Facsimile ed*.: Cincinnati (Lloyd) 1900. *Copy*: B. – Bull. Lloyd Libr. no. 1, repr. ser. 1. *Ref*.: Kew 1: 171; ME 3: 361. - Lloyd and Lloyd, Bull. Lloyd Library, reproduction series no. I. 1900. ##### n.320. Fragments of the natural history of Pennsylvania **Title** *Fragments of the natural history of Pennsylvania*. Part first. Philadelphia (Way & Groff) 1799. Fol. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Fragm. nat. hist. Pennsylvania*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1799 (p. iii: 18 Apr 1799; donated to Amer. philos. Soc. by author on 21 Jun 1799; presented to the Royal Society on 14 Nov 1799; rev. GGA 8 Nov 1800), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-24. *Copies*: HH, NY. "Very rare" (ME). Reprinted by Osbert Salvin for the Willughby Society, London 1883, p. \[i\]-v, \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-24. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 105; ME 3: 361; PR 436. - Mitchill, Med. Repos. 3(2): 177-189. Oct 1799. ##### n.321. Elements of botany **Title** *Elements of botany*: or outlines of the natural history of vegetables. Illustrated by thirty plates. Philadelphia (author) 1803. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Elem. bot.* **Notes** *Ed. I.* 1803 (rev. Med. Repos. dated (1) Mai-Jul, (2) Aug-Oct). *Part 1*: \[i\]-xii, \[1\], \[1\]-302, \[1\]-32, *pl. 1* as frontispiece; *Part 2*: \[1\]-168, \[appendix: 1\]-38, \[1, dir. binding\], *pl. 2-30. Copies*: HH, NY. *London edition*: 1804, "revised and corrected with the addition of British examples and occasional notes, by the English editor", London (J. Johnson, I. Gold), p. \[i\]-xii, \[xiii-xiv\], \[1\]-145, \[147\]-252, \[253\]-344, app. \[1\]-35, *pl. 1-30. Copy*: HH. *Ed. 2*: Philadelphia (author) 1812-1814, 2 parts Oct., *part 1*, Apr-Sep 1812 (p. xviii: 27 Mar 1811; New Engl. J. Surg. rev. Oct 1812), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-324, \[20 p. index\], *pl. i-v, xxxii-xxxiii; Part 2*, 1814 (p. iv: 25 Apr 1814), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-72, \["third part"\]: \[1\]-80, app. \[1\]-44, *pl. vi-xxxi, xxxiv-xl*, "corrected and greatly enlarged". *Copies*: HH, NY. *Ed. 3*: Philadelphia (Robert Desilver) 1827, 2 vols. Oct. "illustrated by forty plates,... corrected and greatly enlarged". This is a reissue of the sheets of the second edition with cancellans title page. *Copy*: HH. *Ed. 4*: Philadelphia (Robert Desilver) 1836, Oct. "illustrated by forty engravings:... a new edition: revised and condensed, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by William P. C. Barton, M. D...." (p. 5: preface 18 Nov 1836, biogr. p. 11-34), p. \[3\]-325, *pl. 1-36, 38-40. Copies*: HH, NY, US. *Ref*.: BM 1: 105; ME 3: 363-364; Plesch p. 133 (London 1804); PR 437. ##### n.322. Flora virginica **Title** *Flora virginica*: sive plantarum, praecipue indigenarum, Virginiae historia inchoata, iconibus illustrata. Pars prima. Philadelphia (D. Heartt) 1812. Oct. †. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. virgin.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1812 –, p. \[i\]-xi, Flora virg.: \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-24, 33-74. From contemporary correspondence (see Darlington 1843 and Graustein 1861) it seems possible that a few copies were distributed (in England, not in the U.S.A.) before April 1813. Persoon had a copy at least in 1814. Copies exist for instance at the Philadelphia Library, the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. HH has a photographic copy. The book remained unfinished and the plates announced on the title page did not appear. First review Dec 1812, Med. Phys. J. (London) 28: 517. Barton frequently quotes in this work another flora by himself, the *Prodromus florae Pennsylvaniae* of which no copies are known to exist (see Penneil 1926). *Ref*.: Jackson p. 365; ME 3: 372; PR 438. - Barton, B. S., Philadelphia Med. Phys. J. suppl. 1: 77-92. Mar 1806 \[preliminary announcement\]. - Darlington, Reliquiae baldwinianae 78. 1843. - Pennell, Bartonia 9: 28-34. 1926. - Graustein, Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. Biogr. 85: 431. 1961.