> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 299](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120430) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1054-1) LSID 1054-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568580) QID Q3568580 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Brackenridge, William Dunlop (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### 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.