> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 348](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265075) of TL-2 Suppl. 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|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Barton, Benjamin Smith (1766-1815), American botanist, zoologist, ethnographer and physician, educated by his older brother, William and at a school in York, Pennsylvania, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh 1786-1787 and id. of Göttingen 1787-1788, professor of natural history and botany in the College of Philadelphia (later University of Pennsylvania), professor of materia medica 1795, curator at the American Philosophical Society 1790-1800, vice-president ib. 1802-1815. **Abbreviated name**: *Barton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Barton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]] (original herbarium). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 57; Barnhart 1: 132; BB p. 22; BM 1: 105, 6: 61; Bossert p. 27; CSP 1: 199-200 (26 entries, period. literature); DAB 2: 17-20; Dawson p. 37 (letters B.S. Barton to Banks); Dryander 3: 290; DSB 1: 484-486 (by J. Ewan; bibl., b. 10 Feb 1766, Lancaster, Pa., d. 19 Dec 1815, Philadelphia, Pa.); GF p. 48; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 58; Jackson p. 36, 360, 364; Kew 1: 171; ME 1: 34, 163, 3: 534 \[index\] (list of publ.); NAF ser. 2. 5: 233; NI 82-83, also suppl.; Nickles p. 74; Plesch p. 132-134; PR 435-439, ed. 1: 516-520; Quenstedt p. 23; Rehder 5(index): 54; Sotheby 32; TL-2/1: 127-129, and see indexes; Tucker 1: 60-61; Zander ed. 10, p. 632, ed. 11, p. 718. #### Biofile - Anon., Encycl. brit. ed. 11. 3: 452. 1910; Medicine in colonial Massachusetts 1620-1820. 1980 (numerous entries, see indexes). - Barnhart, J.H., Torreya 9(12): 249. 1909; Bartonia 9: 35-42. 1926 (brief sketches of some collectors of specimens in the Barton herbarium), 16: 19-36. 1934 (publ. 1935; corr. with Schweinitz). - Barton, W.P.C., Benjamin Smith Barton, Philadelphia 1816, 34 p.; The Portfolio ser. 4. 1(4): 275-287. 1816 (biogr., portr.). - Bell, W.J., Jr., Early Amer. Sci., Williamsburg, Va. 1955, p. 45; J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. 19(4): 419-421. 1964, 26(2): 197-203. 1971. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.70. 1980. - Coats, A.M., Plant Hunters 293, 294, 295, 300. 1969. - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldwin. 9, 17, 24, 31, 34, 78, 80, 82, 83, 86, 89, 114, 160, 167, 169, 171. 1843. - Ewan, J., Amer. philos. Soc., Rep. Comm. Research 1973: 569-571. 1974 (on a survey of the B.S.B. papers in the library of the Amer. philos. Soc.); Proc. Amer. phil. Soc. 127(3): 125-134. 1983 ("From Calcutta and New Orleans, or, Tales from B's Greenhouse"); Trans. Stud. Coll. Physicians Philadelphia ser. 5. 5(4): 309-320. 1983 ("five pupils of Benjamin Smith Barton"); *in* R.S. Klein (ed.), Science and Society in Early America, Philadelphia 1986, p. 311-344 ("one professor's chief joy: a catalog of books belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton"); Bartonia 54: 28-38. 1988 (B's infl. on Trans-Allegheny nat. hist.). - Ewan, J. and N. Ewan, John Banister 476 (index). 1970. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 6, 37, 38, 40, 47, 48, 115, 148. 1969. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 374. 1877. - Graustein, J.E., The Pennsylvanian Magazine Hist. Biogr. 85(4): 423-438. 1961 (detailed analysis of his activities; stresses his sponsorship of Thomas Nuttall); Thomas Nuttall 460. 1967 (index, numerous entries). - Greene, J.C., American science in the age of Jefferson 464. 1984 (index, detailed treatment). - Harshberger, J.W., Bot. Philadelphia 108-113. 1899 (biogr. sketch). - Hedrick, U.P., Hist. hortic. America 403, 404. 1950. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers of N. Amer. bot. 21-23. 1061. - Kastner, J., A world of naturalists 128, 129, 254, 255. 1978. - Kelly, H.A., Some Amer. med. bot. 88-96. 1914. - Lloyd, J.U. and C.G., Bull. Lloyd Libr. Bot. Reprod. Ser. 1: 1-11. 1900 (biogr., portr.). - Lubrecht, H., Early Amer. Bot. 1967, nos. 3, 8. - McAtee, W.C., Castanea 3: 85-116. 1939 (on B's journal on a visit to Virginia, 1802). - McPhail, I., *in* From Linnaeus to Darwin..., Soc. Hist. nat. Hist., spec. publ. no. 3. London 1985, p. 149, 158. 1985 (on B's *Prodromus Florae Pennsylvania*); Benjamin Smith Barton and William Paul Crillon Barton, The Morton Arboretum 1986, 40 p. (critical and detailed bibl., portr., many new details; major source). - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 159. 1978 (sources Muhlenberg herb., notes on B's herb.). - Middleton, W.S., Ann. med. Hist. ser. 2. 8: 477-491. 1936 (incl. portrait and handwritings). - Millin, A.L., Mag. encycl. 5: 170-171. 1807 (announcement of the *Prodromus* \[not published, see TL-2/322, Pennell 1942, p. 116\]). - Packard, F.R., *in* H.A. Kelly and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 68-96. 1920; Ann. Rept. Penn. Hospital 190: 6-8. 1941. - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 9: 17-34. 1926 (on his herb. and the "mystery of his floras" including information on the *Prodromus florae Pennsylvania* of which no copies are known to exist. Pennell assumes that the work must have been printed, but never distributed and possibly destroyed. Whether the book was printed or simply in mss. remains an open question), 21: 42-43. 1942; Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 86: 100-122. 1942 (on B. as a "naturalist", detailed analysis of his botanical work); 94(2): 137-151. 1950 (on B's herb., illustrations). - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 21, 38-41, 58. 1942. - Rudolph, E.D., Arch. nat. Hist. 10(2): 461. 1982 (B. left an outline of the natural system). - Salvin, O. ed., Barton's fragments of the natural history of Pennsylvania, London 1883. - Smith, E.F., *in* Papers read before the Lancaster County Historical Society 28(4): 57-66. 1924. - Smith, Earle, Bartonia 28: *pl. 2.* 1957 (handwriting). - Stieber, M.T. and A.L. Karg, Huntia 5(3): 195. 1984 (letter Z. Collins). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 43. 1981 (B's letters at HU). - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 13: 4-5. 1978 (Botanical beachcombers and explorers). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 177. 1903 (on portr.). - Youmans, W.J., Pioneers of science in America 81-89. 1896. #### Manuscripts and further papers Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society Pennsylvania, Historical Society, Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, private with John R. Delafield (fide Ewan 1970 in DSB). #### Note The publication of Ian MacPhail, Benjamin Smith Barton and William Paul Crillon Barton, 1986, provides an exhaustive bibliography with a wealth of additional details. We have nothing to add to this excellent bibliography.