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### Author
Brackenridge, William Dunlop (1810-1893), Scottish born American botanist, assistant naturalist on the Wilkes expedition.
**Abbreviated name**: *Brack.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Brack.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection US|US]] (also holding the original drawings and proofs).
*Ref*.: Bartlett, Proc. Amer, philos. Soc. 82: 678. 1940.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 237; BB p. 42; BM 1: 219; Bossert p. 144; DAB; HR, IF p. 684; Kew 1: 333-334; ME 1: 167, 3: 542 \[index\]; PR 1073.
- Meehan, Gardener's Monthly 26: 375-376. 1884 (portr.)
- Anon., Amer. Florist 8: 678, 695. 1893 (portr.)
- Maiden, J. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 42: 93. 1908.
- Barnhart, J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 117-124. 1919.
- Britten, J. Bot. 57: 263. 1919.
- Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 80. 1936.
- Haskell, Bull. New York Public Library 44: 93-112. 1940; 45: 69-90, 507-532, 821-858 (portr. opp. 838). 1941; 46: 103-150. 1942 (main bibl. Expl. Exp.).
- Rodgers, John Torrey 337 \[index\]. 1942.
- Eastwood, Calif. hist. Soc. Quart. 24: 337-342. 1945.
- Maloney et al., Calif. hist. Soc. Quart. 24: 321-342. 1945 (California journey; repr. of Br. 's journal 1-28 Oct 1841; Eastwood, list of plants).
- Ewan, Rocky Mountain naturalists 168. 1950.
- Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males, ser. I. 1: 7-75. 1950.
- Ewan, *in* A century of progress in the natural sciences 45. 1955.
- McVaugh, Edward Palmer 10. 1959.
- Thomas, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 150. 1961.
- Ewan, Short hist. bot. U. S. 8, 9, 42, 97. 1965.
- Coats, The plant hunters 295, 297-299, 309. 1969.
- Martin, *in* Lenley et al., Index corr. Torrey 448. 1973.
#### Eponymy
*Brackenridgea* A. Gray (1854).
### Publications
##### n.697. United States Exploring Expedition
**Title**
*United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N, vol. xvi. *Botany. Cryptogamia. Filices*, including Lycopodiaceae and Hydropterides by William D. Brackenridge. With a folio atlas of forty-six plates. Philadelphia (C. Sherman) 1854. Qu. (in twos)
**Abbreviated title**: *U. S. Expl. exped., Filic.*
**Notes**
*Official issue*: (half title"... Expedition. By authority of Congress"), Sep-Nov 1854, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-357. *Copies*: (Haskell no. 64). Number of copies printed: 100 (24 destroyed by fire). *Copies*: NY, US.
*Unofficial issue*: (half title lacks "By authority of Congress"), p. \[1\]-viii, \[1\]-357. *Copies*: BM (Haskell no. 65). Number of copies printed probably 100 all but 10 of which were destroyed by fire.
*Facsimile ed*. (of official issue): Lehre (J. Cramer) 1971, Historiae naturalis classica, Tomus 87(2), p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-357. *Copies*: G, FAS.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 219; IF p. 684; Jackson p. 224; ME 2: 670; NI 2153; PR 1073; IDC 998(1).
- Hooker, J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 8: 92-95. 1856.
- Barnhart, J. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 117-124. 1919.
- Bartlett, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 82: 673-679. 1940.
- Haskell, Bull. New York Publ. Libraiy 45: 839-842. 1941.
- Stafleu, Taxon 21: 171. 1972.
##### n.698. Atlas. Botany. Cryptogamia.
**Title**
\[First six lines as in no. 697\] *Atlas. Botany. Cryptogamia.*Filices, including Lycopodiaceae and Hydropterides. By William D. Brackenridge. By Authority of Congress. Philadelphia (C. Sherman) 1855. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *U. S. Expl. exped., Atlas crypt.*
**Notes**
*Official issue*: 1855, p. \[1\]-7, *pl. 1-46*, uncol. by W. S. Lawrence, edited by Joseph Drayton (original drawings and proofs at US). *Copies*: K, NY, US. – Number of copies printed: 100 (24 destroyed by fire), see Haskell no. 66.
*Unofficial issue*: 1855, p. \[1\]-7, *pl. 1-46* as above. "By Authority of Congress" lacking from t.p. *Copy*: BM. – Only 10 copies left, see Haskell no. 67.
*Facsimile ed*. (of official issue): \[Lehre (J. Cramer) 1971\] as above. *Copy*: FAS.