> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 213](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120344) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/783-1) LSID 783-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1236142) QID Q1236142 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bigelow, Jacob (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bigelow, Jacob (1787-1879), American botanist at Harvard. **Abbreviated name**: *Bigel.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bigelow*\] #### Herbarium and types Mostly [[Collection GH|GH]], but specimens in many collections, see IH (erroneously sub J. M. Bigelow). *Ref*.: IH 2: 74. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 469; Barnhart 1: 181; BM 1: 162; Bossert p. 38; CSP 1: 361; DAB 2: 255-256; Dawson p. 49; Jackson p. 6; Kew 1: 245; ME 1: 165, 3: 373, 376, 377-378, 538; NI 164; Plesch p. 411; PR 772-773; Zander ed. 10, p. 635. - Ellis, G. E., Memoir of M. J. Bigelow. Cambridge 1880 (105 p.) (portr.) - Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 8: 217-222. 1883. - Gray, A., Am. J. Sci. ser. 3. 17: 263-266. 1879, Scientific papers 2: 413-416. 1889. - W.M., *in* Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. 1: 161. 1900. - Kelly, Some American medical botanists 120-128. 1914 (portr.) - Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 100-101. 1920. - Rodgers, John Torrey 336 \[index\]. 1942. - Humphrey, Makers N. Amer. bot. 30-31. 1961. - Gifford, Harvard Med. Alumni Bull. 39: 34-39. 1965. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 461 \[index\]. 1967. - Martin, *in* Lenley et al., Index corr. Torrey 447. 1973 (corr.) #### Eponymy *Bigelovia* \[sic\] K. P. J. Sprengel (1820); *Bigelovia* \[sic\] K. P. J. Sprengel (1824); *Bigelovia* \[sic\] J. E. Smith (1819); *Bigelowia* A. P. de Candolle (1836, *nom. cons.*); *Bigelowia* Rafinesque (1817, *nom. rej.*) ### Publications ##### n.513. Florula bostoniensis **Title** *Florula bostoniensis*. A collection of plants of Boston and its environs, with their generic and specific characters, synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. Boston (Cummings and Hilliard) 1814. Oct. (in fours) **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. boston.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Mai (after 21)-Jun 1814 (legal deposit 21 Mai 1814; first British rev. Jul 1814), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-268. *Copies*: Ewan, U. *Ed. 2*: 1824 (legal deposit 28 Jun 1824), p. \[1\]-5, \[1, abbr.\], \[1\]-422, \[423, index subgen.\], "... and its vicinity,... second edition greatly enlarged. To which is added a glossary of botanical terms employed in the work." Boston (Hilliard & Metcalf) Oct (in fours). *Copy*: E. G. Voss. *Ed. 3*: 1840 (p. iv: Mai 1840), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1, abbr.\], \[1\]-468, "... and its vicinity,... third edition enlarged and containing a glossary of botanical terms." Boston (Charles C. Little and James Brown) 1840. Duod. (in 6s). *Copies*: Ewan, E. G. Voss. *Ref*.: BM 1: 162; Jackson 362; Kew 1: 245; ME 3: 373; PR 772. - Anon., Flora 1: 285-287. 20 Jun 1818. - Rafinesque, Amer. monthly Mag. 2: 342-344. Mar 1818. - Greene, Pittonia 2: 91-96. 1890 (ed. 2). ##### n.514. American medical botany **Title** *American medical botany*, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings. Boston (Cummings and Hilliard) 1817-1820, 6 parts in 3 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Arner. med. bot.* **Notes** |vol. |part |pages |*plates* |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |\[v\]-xi, \[17\]-110 |1-10 |Oct-Nov 1817| | |2 |\[i\]-\[iv\], \[113\]-\[198\] |11-20 |Mai 1818| |2 |1 |\[i\]-\[xiv\], \[15\]-104 |21-30 |Jan-Mar 1819| | |2 |\[107\]-\[200\] |31-40 |Jan-Nov 1819| |3 |1 |\[i\]-x, \[11\]-98 |41-50 |1820| | |2 |\[101\]-\[198\] |51-60 |Jan 1821| *Copy*: USDA. – Vol. 2, p. xiv, err. "xvi." Dates fide Buchheim (1974) q.v. for details, collation, contemporary reviews and a list of copies. *Ref*.: BM 1: 162; Jackson 360; Kew 1: 245; ME 3: 377-378; NI 164; PR 773. - Cushing, N. Amer. Rev. 13: 100-134. 1821. - Buchheim, J. Arnold Arb. 55: 46-50.