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> [!example] See also [[Baster, Job (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Baster, Job (1711-1775), Dutch physician and biologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Baster* \[standard form in IPNI: *Baster*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LINN|LINN]] (only Java material, not collected by him, sent to Linnaeus).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 59.
- Kreuzer, Das Herbar 168. 1864.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 136; BB p. 23; BM 1: 108; JW 1: 184, 2: 341; Kew 4: 6 \[sub Miller\]; NNBW 2: 163, 6: 74; PR 468-469.
- Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks 3: 401, 557.
- Hulth, Bref och skr. Linné 2(1): 241-252. 1916.
- Henrard en Koumans, Basteria 1: 6-12. 1936.
- Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykol. xviii Jahrh. 184, 187-188. 1936.
- Engel, Bijdr. Dierk. 27: 255-256. 1939 (many biogr. refs.)
- Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males ser. I. 1: 40-41. 1950.
- Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 34 \[nos. 248, 249\]. 1966.
#### Eponymy (genera)
*Basteria* Houttuyn (1776); *Basteria* P. Miller (1755); (journal): *Basteria* tijdschrift van de Nederlandsche Malacologische Vereeniging, Leiden. Vol. 1-x, 1936-x.
### Publications
##### n.340. Natuurkundige uitspanningen
**Title**
*Natuurkundige uitspanningen*, behelzende eenige waarnemingen, over sommige zeeplanten en zeeinsecten, benevens derzelver zaadhuisjes en eijernesten. Haarlem (J. Bosch) 1759-1765, 2 vols. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Natuurk. uitspann.*
**Notes**
|deel |stuk |pages |*plates* |plates expl. |date|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |1 |\[i\], \[1\]-54, \[55 cont.\] |1-8 |1-6 |Sep-Oct 1759|
| |2 |\[57\]-110, \[111 cont.\] |9-16 |7-10 |Sep 1760|
| |3 |\[113\]-169, \[170 cont.\] \[index 3 p.\] |- |11-16 |Jun 1762 ('1761')|
|2 |1 |\[i\], \[1\]-50, \[50 cont.\] |1-7 |1-4 |late 1762|
| |2 |\[53\]-109, \[110 cont.\] |8-13 |5-9 |Jun 1765|
| |3 |\[111\]-167, \[168 cont.\], \[index 3 p.\] |- |10-13 |1765|
The indication 'Bladz. 473' on plate 5 of vol. 1 refers to the original publication of this plate in the Verh. Holl. Mij. Wet. 4: 473. *Copies*: BR, U. – This is a Dutch version of the *Opusculo subseciva*, see below.
*Ref*.: NI 86.
- Engel, Basteria 6: I. 1941 (on a variant with different plates).
##### n.341. Opuscula subseciva
**Title**
*Opuscula subseciva*, observationes miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis quibusdam marinis, eorumque ovariis et seminibus continentia. Haarlem \[1759\]-1762 \[-1765\], 2 vols. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Opusc. subsec.*
**Notes**
|vol. |libr. |pages |dates|
|--- |--- |--- |--- |
|1 |1 |\[1\]-46, \[2\], pl. 1-6 |1759|
| |2 |\[47\]-95, \[96\], pl. 7-10 |1760|
| |3 |\[97\]-148, \[4\], pl. 11-16 |1761|
|2 |1 |\[1\*\], \[1\]-47, \[48\], pl. 1-4 |Aug 1762|
| |2 |\[49\]-99, \[100\], pl. 5-9 |Sep 1765|
| |3 |\[101\]-150, \[2\], \[4\], pl. 10-13 |Sep 1765|
*Ref*.: BM 1: 108; NI 86 (transl.); PR 468.
- Maitland, Tijdschr. Ned. dierk. Ver. 2: 7-15. 1876.
- Hulth, Bref och skr. Linné 244-247. 1916.
- Engel, Basteria 6: 1-10. 1941.