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> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12358-1) LSID 12358-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2375893) QID Q2375893
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> [!example] See also [[Bowdich, Sarah (née Wallis; afterwards Lee)|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Bowdich, Sarah (née Wallis; afterwards Lee) (1791-1856), British botanist, collected plants in tropical West Africa, with her husband T.E. Bowdich (1791-1824) in West Africa 1814, 1815 and 1823, married Robert Lee in 1829
**Abbreviated name**: *Bowdich* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bowdich*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Major part of her Madeira, Cape Verde Isls., and Sierra Leone collections lost at sea, some material at [[Collection BM|BM]].
#### Note 1
See D.J. Mabberley's publications on Edward and Sarah names of Macaronesian and African plants, notes on those of Robert Brown, Botanica Macaronesica 6: 53-65. 1978 (1980), his History in the Service of Systematics, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History special publication 1: 103-109. 1981, and his notes on the Bowdichs in his Robert Brown of the British Museum 210, 245-246, 349, 390. 1985.
#### Note 2
TL-2/691, *Exc. Madeira* also available on microfiche, IDC E-8518/1.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 232; BB p. 184; BM 1: 218, 6: 118; CSP 1: 550; Desmond p. 79, 379 (sub Sarah Lee); DNB 6: 43, 32: 379; Jackson p. 42; Kew 1: 328; Lasègue p. 438, 504; PR 1070 (p.p.); TL-2/1: 296-297; Tucker 1: 103.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Gentlem. Mag. 1856: 653-654.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.160, 229.281. 1980.
- Hardy, J., Selections from correspondence of George Johnston 177. 1892.
- Hepper, F.N. and F. Neate, Pl. coll. W. Africa 12. 1971.
- Mabberley, D.J., Bot. Macaronesica 6: 53-66. 1978 (publ. 1980); Hist. Service Systematics, Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. spec. publ. 1: 103-109. 1981; Robert Brown of the British Museum 210, 245-246, 349, 390. 1985 (major source).
- Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 59 (nos. 513-517). 1966.