> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 161](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265358) of TL-2 Suppl. II > 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|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bigelow, Jacob (1787-1879), American botanist, physician and educator, born at Sudbury, Mass., A.B. Harvard College 1806, M.D. University of Pennsylvania 1810, began practicing medicine 1810, professor of materia medica in Harvard 1815-1855, also physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1847-1863. **Abbreviated name**: *Bigelow* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bigelow*\] #### Herbarium and types Mainly at [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]]. − Further material at [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]]-DU, [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 469; Backer p. 66; Barnhart 1: 185; BM 1: 162; Bossert p. 38; CSP 1: 361; DAB 2: 255-256; Dawson p. 49; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 74 (erroneously sub J.M. Bigelow); Jackson p. 6, 360, 362; Kelly p. 120-128; Kew 1: 245; Lasègue p. 540; Lenley p. 447 (corr. Torrey); ME 1: 165, 3: 373, 376, 377-378, 538; NI 164; Plesch 411; PR 772-773, ed. 1: 873-875; Rehder 5(index): 84-85; TL-2/1: 213-214 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 83-84; Urban-Berl. p. 330; Zander ed. 10, p. 635, ed. 11, p. 722, 747. #### Biofile - Allis, F.S., Jr. et al., Medicine in colonial Massachusetts 1620-1820. 388 (index). 1980. - Bailey, L.H., Bot. Gaz. 8: 217-222. 1883. - Barnhart, J.H., Bartonia 16: 21. 1934. - Buchheim, G., J. Arnold Arb. 55: 46-50. 1974 (study of B's American medical botany, detailed collation). - Darlington, W., Reliq. Baldwin. 114, 117, 153, 190, 193, 284. 1893. - Dawson, W.R., The Smith papers 14. 1934 (6 letters to J.E. Smith); Banks 49. 1958 (letter by Banks to B.). - Ellis, G.E., Memoir of Jacob Bigelow. Cambridge, Mass. 1800, 105 p. - Fernald, M.L., Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 86(1): 67-71. 1942. - Gifford, G.E., Harvard med. Alum. Bull. 39: 34-35. 1965. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 461 (index, numerous entries). 1967. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 17: 263-266. 1879. - Gray, J.L., Letters A. Gray 284, 288, 558, 685. 1893. - Greene, E.C., Pittonia 2: 91-96. 1890 (on *Florula Boston*. ed. 2. 1824). - Greene, J.C., Amer. science in the age of Jefferson, Ames, Iowa 1984 (see index p. 465). - Hedrick, U.P., Hist. hortic. Amer. 255, 428. 1950. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 30-31. 1961. - Kelly, H.A., Some Amer. med. botanists 120-128. 1914. - Kelly, H.A. and A.C. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 100-101. 1900. - Leroy, J.F. et al., Bot. franç. Amer. nord. 67, 139, 140. 1957. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 160. 1978, 133: 145. 1981 (colls. at PH). - Miller, W., *in* L.H. Bailey, Cycl. Amer. Hort. ed. 4. 1: 161. 1906. - Pease, A.S., Fl. N. Hampshire 33, 34. 1964. - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 132. 1981. - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 84, 88, 128, 135, 260. 1942. - Russell, Foster M., Mount Auburn biographies 17-18. s.d. - Sprengel, K., Neue Entd. Pflanzenk. 1: 386-393. 1820 (review of B's *Amer. med. bot.*). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 52. 1981 (mss. at Hunt Library). - Waller, A.E., Papers Dept. Bot., Ohio State Univ. 449: 313-314. 1942 (sic in biogr. of J.M. Bigelow). - Wolfe, R.J., Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany 1817-1821, Boston, Mass. 1979, 123 p. (add. lit. on TL-2/514). #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl. 2.* 1957; \[H.M. Burdet *in*:\] Candollea 27(2): 321-322. 1972. ### Publications ##### n.21.291. Facts serving to shew the comparative forwardness of the spring **Title** *Facts serving to shew the comparative forwardness of the spring* in different parts of the United States... Cambridge (University Press... Hilliard and Metcalf) 1818. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1818, p. \[1\]-11. *Copy*: G. − Reprinted and to be cited from Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 4: 77-85. 1818. − Abstracts in Amer. J. Sci. Arts 1: 76-77. 1818 and Ann. Chimie 10: 239-240. 1819. ##### n.21.292. A treatise on the materia medica **Title** *A treatise on the materia medica* intended as a sequel to the pharmocopoeia of the United States: being an account of the origin, qualities and medical uses of the articles and compounds, which constitute that work, with their modes of prescription and administration ... Boston (published by Charles Ewer,...) 1822. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Treatise mat. med.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1822, p. \[1\]-424. *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: Lubrecht, H., Early Amer. bot. works no. 16. 1967. ##### n.21.293. Nature in disease **Title** *Nature in disease*, illustrated in various discourses and essays. To which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects... Boston (Ticknor and Fields) 1854. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. disease*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1854 (p. v, preface dated 1 Nov 1854), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-357. *Copy*: n.v. *Reprint*: 1977, p. \[1-10\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-357. *Copy*: U. − With an Introduction by Lawrence A. May,... distributed by Dabor Science Publications, Oceanside, NY 11572.