> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 387](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120518) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1240-1) LSID 1240-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194214) QID Q194214 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Buch, Christian Leopold von (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Buch, Christian Leopold von, Freiherr von Gelmersdorf etc. (1774-1853), German traveller and naturalist. **Abbreviated name**: *L. v. Buch* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.Buch*\] #### Collections Some (e.g. the collection from the Canary Islands) were at B, others reported to be at BASSA (?). Palaeontological material at the Geological-palaeontological institute of Berlin (fide Sherborn). *Ref*.: IH 2: 104. - Candolle, Phytographie 400. 1880. - Sherborn, Where is the... collection. 27. 1940. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 3: 464-475; Barnhart 1: 273; BM 1: 273-274; CSP 1: 687-691, 6: 610, 7: 289, 12: 129; DTS 1: 38-39, 6(4): 7, GR 1: 67; IF p. 685; Kew 1: 407; KR p. 109; Lasègue p. 565 \[index\]; MD p. 71-73; NDB 2: 697; PR 1307-1308; Quenstedt p. 65 (q.v. for further biogr. refs.) - Engelmann, Bibl. hist. nat. 660 \[index\]. 1846 (bibl.) - Boué, Alm. k. Akad. Wien 3: 179-194. 1853 (bibl.) - Carnall, Z. deut. geol. Ges. 5: 248-263. 1853. - Geinitz, Gedächtnisrede auf... Dresden 1853 (bibl.) - Martius, Denkrede auf... München 1853. - Haidinger, Jb. geol. Reichsanst. Wien 4: 207-220. 1853. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 2: 241-243. 1855. - Giebel, C. G., Biogr. v. C.L.B., Berlin 1857. - Dechen, Verh. naturk. Ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westf. 10: 241-265. 1853, Nova Acta Leop. 24(2): ci-cxxv. 1854, Verh. nat. ver. preuss. Rheinl. Westf. 31 (Corr.): 41-59. 1874. - Candolle, Mémoires et Souvenirs 375, 454, 1862. - Flourens, Éloges historiques 1: 343-409. 1856; Ann. Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1862: 358-372 (bibl.) - Ratzeburg, Forstwiss. Schriftsteller – Lexikon 89-92. 1874. - Günther, Geisteshelden 29: 185-271. 1900 (portr., bibl.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 121. 1903, 3(3): 121. 1905 (ref. to portr.) - Zaunick, Der Geologe 34: 669-674. 1924 (letters). - Hooykaas, The principle of uniformity, ed. 2. Leiden 1963. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 69. 1966. - Lurie, Louis Agassiz 436 \[index\]. 1970. - Nieuwenkamp, DSB 2: 552-557. 1970. - Mägdefrau, Gesch. Bot. 309 \[index\]. 1973. #### Collected works Ewald et al., ed., *Leopold von Buch's gesammelte Schriften*, Berlin 1867-1885, 4 vols., (biogr. in 1: v-xlviii. 1867). #### Eponymy *Buchia* Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth (1817). – *Note*: *Neobuchia* Urban (1902) is dedicated to Wilhelm Buch (1862-x), German botanist and collector in Haiti. ### Publications ##### n.862. Allgemeine Uebersicht der Flora auf den Canarischen Inseln **Title** *Allgemeine Uebersicht der Flora auf den Canarischen Inseln*. Eine Abhandlung, vorgelesen in der Königl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Jahre 1817. Berlin 1819. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Allg. Uebers. Fl. Canar. Ins.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1819, p. \[i\], \[1\]-48. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from Abh. Physik. Klasse kön. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1816-1817: 337-382, 383-388. 1819. A preliminary publication of the botanical part of the *Physicalische Beschreibung*. ##### n.863. Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln **Title** *Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln*. Berlin 1825. Qu. *Atlas zur Physicalischen Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln*. Berlin (Kön. Akademie der Wissenschaften) 1825 \[1826-1831\]. Qu. and Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Phys. Beschr. Canar. Ins.* **Notes** *Publ*.: *Text* 1828, after 28 Mai (pref.), Qu., p. \[i-vii\], \[1\]-407, \[408, err.\] For detailed description see MD. *Copy*: U. *Atlas*: "Atlas zur physicalischen Beschreibung..." Fol., "fig." 3-13. 1826 (before 22 Apr), "fig." 1 "gravée... en 1831", fig. 2 never published. The botanical collaborators were Robert Brown (a list of Madeira plants), A. P. de Candolle (some descriptions), J. D. Choisy (idem), H. F. Link (most of the descriptions). – A French translation, with a preface by Adr. de Jussieu, was published by Guillemin in his *Archives de botanique* 1: 289-316 (15 Apr 1833), 481-508 (10 Jun 1833); the second part with the title *Catalogue des plantes spontanées qui ont été jusqu'ici trouvées dans les îles Canaries*. Margadant mentions an undated reprint of this translation with separate pagination. – The book was privately published and did not appear in the trade. Most (or all) copies were presented by the author. *Ref*.: BM 1: 274; Kew 1: 407; MD p. 71-73; PR 1308; PR ed. 1, 1308.