> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 296](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265493) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/16309-1) LSID 16309-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2556630) QID Q2556630 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bolton, James|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bolton, James (ca. 1758-1799), British (Halifax, Yorkshire) self-taught botanist, acting in the weaving trade, at Halifax, Yorkshire, especially interested in mycology, also artist and engraver for his own publications. **Abbreviated name**: *Bolton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bolton*\] #### Herbarium and types Not known; see text in TL-2/1: 264. − Hunt Institute has 229 watercolors found as "The primary sketches from nature to Bolton's history of funguses". #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 340 (index); Backer p. 73; Barnhart 1: 214; BM 1: 192; Desmond p. 74 (q.v. for further biogr. refs.); DNB 5: 327-328; Dryander 3: 137, 220, 225; Frank 3(Anh.): 12; Henrey 3: nos. 464-465; Hortus 3: 1189; HU 742 (also 2(1): clxxvi, cciv); IF p. 682; Jackson p. 239, 252, 344; Kew 1: 290; Lenley p. 448 (letter to Torrey); LS 3294-3295; NAF 1(1): 135. 1949, 9(6): 430; NI 194-196, Nachtr. p. 21; PR 961-962, ed. 1: 1078-1079; Rehder 1: 395; Stevenson p. 1236; TL-2/1: 264-266 and see indexes; Zander ed. 10, p. 637, ed. 11, p. 724. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., Victorian fern craze 1-2, 7. 1969. - Baker, G., Bot. Trans. Yorksh. nat. Union 1: 201. 1891. - Blackwell, E.M., The Naturalist 877: 53. 1961. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 73.1, 74.1, 229.180, 331.2. 1980. - Crossland, C., An eighteenth century naturalist. Halifax. 1910. - Crump, W.B., The Halifax Naturalist 6: xlviii-liv. 1902. - Crump, W.B. and C. Crossland, Fl. Parish Halifax xlviii-liv. 1904. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 447. 1877. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. Hist. Books 1495-1900. nos. 370-372. 1980. - Junk, Catalogue 206: no. 34. 1977 (on a mss. *Genera muscorum*). - Lisney, A.A., Bibl. Brit. Lepidopt. 1608-1799: 278-283. 1960 (bibl., portr.). - Moorhouse, S., J. Bot. 79: 156-158. 1941 (on James and Thomas B.). - Nelson, E.C., Naturalist, Yorkshire 1981: 141-147 (on his bot. paintings and ills.; also assoc. with Ehret). - Nissen, C., Illustr. Vogelbücher 93. 1953 (Huxmonia turalis). - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 142, 143. 1981. - Shear, C.L., Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 17: 302-307. 1932 (on USDA mss. of B's *Icones fungorum*). - Stafleu, F.A., *in* L'Héritier, Sertum angl. facs. ed. 1963, p. xxvii. - Turner, Halifax books and authors 60-61. 1906. - Watling, R., B.S.E. News 26: 10-11. 1978, 28: 7-8. 1979; Arch. nat. Hist. 10(1): 89-110. 1981 (J.B. "mycological pioneer", major source). - Withering, J., Misc. tracts 1: 9. 1822. - Woodward, J., *in* Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 25, 30. 1904. - White, J.J., Newsletter Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 13: 10. 1981, 14: 17. 1982.