> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 164](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265361) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/785-1) LSID 785-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4086441) QID Q4086441 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bigsby, John Jeremiah|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bigsby, John Jeremiah (1792-1881), British physician and geologist, studied medicine in St. Andrews and Edinburgh, M.D. Edinburgh 1814, resident physician in the Edinburgh infirmary 1814, entered the medical department of the army 1816, army medical officer at the Cape 1817, medical officer to a German Rifle Regiment in the English service, ordered as such to Canada ca. 1818, ca. 1819 exploring Upper Canada to report on its geology, subsequently visiting the N.E. United States, about 1824 appointed British secretary and medical officer to the Canadian Boundary Commission, returned to England 1827 practising as physician at Newark until 1846, from then on living in London. **Abbreviated name**: *Bigsby* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bigsby*\] #### Herbarium and types Part of his Canadian collections in [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 185 (b. 14 Aug 1793, d. 10 Feb 1881); BB p. 32; BM 1: 162; CSP 1: 363, 6: 589, 7: 172; Desmond p. 64; DNB 5: 27; Jackson p. 178, 179, 522; Kew 1: 245; ME 1: 165, 3: 538 (index); Merrill p. 265, 690; Quenstedt p. 39; TL-2/1: 214. #### Biofile - Anon., Geol. Mag. ser. 2. 2(8): 238. 1881 (obit.); J. Bot. 19: 96. 1881; Proc. Roy. Soc. London 33: xvi-xvii. 1882 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 240.16. 1980. - Clarke, J.M., James Hall of Albany 347-348, 398, 430-438. 1923. - Etheridge, R., Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 37(Proc.): 39-41. 1881. - Sherborn, C.D., Where is the.. collection 17. 1940. - Woodward, H.B., Hist. Geol. Soc. London 77, 252 (portr.), 326. 1907.