> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 372](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120503) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1204-1) LSID 1204-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348489) QID Q348489 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bruce, James (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bruce, James (1730-1794), Scottish traveller in Africa. **Abbreviated name**: *Bruce* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bruce*\] #### Herbarium and types Bruce had no herbarium of his own so far as is known. The specimens collected on his travels went to several persons with whom he was in contact, mainly Sir Joseph Banks ([[Collection BM|BM]]) and Lamarck ([[Collection P|P]]-LA). From the correspondence with Banks it is clear, however, that Bruce made few collections of dried plants, and that most of his documentation consisted of drawings. These are now at the Royal Society. Bruce manuscripts are at the Royal Society, London. *Ref*.: IH 2: 102. - Dawson, The Banks letters 177-179. 1958. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 266; BB p. 51; BM 1: 262; 6: 148; Dawson p. 177-179; DNB 7: 98; Kew 1: 399; PR 1256. - Murray, Account of the life and writings of James Bruce of Kinnaird, author of Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768-1773, Edinburgh 1808. (part of second edition of Bruce's Travels). - Smith, J. E., Correspondence 2: 293. 1832. - Head, F. B., Life of James Bruce. London 1832 (fide PR). - Embacher, Lexikon Reisen 52-53. 1882. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 86. 1936. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 67. 1966. - Reid, J. M., Traveller extraordinary, the life of James Bruce of Kinnaird, London 1968. - Hansen, DSB 2: 530. 1970. - Cumming, Geogr. J. 137 (1): 41-50. 1971 (letters). #### Eponymy *Bracea* J. F. Miller (1779-1780, *nom. cons.*) ### Publications ##### n.843. Select specimens of natural history **Title** *Select specimens of natural history*, collected in Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. Vol. 5. Edinburgh (J. Ruthven for C. G.J. and J. Robinson) London 1790. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Select spec. nat. hist.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb-Apr 1790, p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-230, \[12, ind., err.\], *37 pl*., 3 maps. Title of the main work: *Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770*, *1771, 1772 and 1773*. Edinburgh, 5 vols, 1790. *Copies*: Teyler, Harvard Univ. Libr. *Second edition*: by Alexander Murray, Edinburgh 1804 \[-1808?\] with biogr. and portr. (n.v.) *Third edition*: by Alexander Murray "to which is prefixed a life of the author" \[by the editor\], 7 vols., atlas, Edinburgh 1813. (n.v.) *French translation*: by J. H. Castera, *Voyage aux sources du Nil*, en Nubie et en Abyssinie pendant les années 1768-72, 11 vols. London 1790-1792. *Copy*: G. *German translation*: *Reisen zur Entdeckung der Quellen der Nil*. Uebersetzt von Volkmann, mit Anmerkungen von Blumenbach, 5 vols. Leipzig 1791. Natural history in vol. 5. (n.v.) *Abridgement*: *Travels*... *by James Bruce*, ed. C. F. Beckingham, New York, Edinburgh \[1964\], with biography and introduction. *Copy*: MICH. *Ref*.: BM: 262; PR 1256; ST p. 56; IDG 5501. - Stackhouse, Extracts from Bruce's Travels. Bath 1815 (n.v.). - Rehder, Bradley bibl. 1: 486. 1911.