> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 202](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266509) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1257-1) LSID 1257-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2605955) QID Q2605955 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Buckley, Samuel Botsford|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Buckley, Samuel Botsford (1809-1884), American naturalist born Torrey Township, West Dresden, Yates County, N.Y., studied at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1833-1836, collected plants in Illinois and Missouri, 1837, the Virginias (including what is now West Virginia), Kentucky, Illinois, and Alabama, 1838, teacher in Alabama, 1839-1840, travelled widely in the mountains of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia, 1842, studied at College of Physicians and Surgeons, N.Y., 1842-1843, collected plants in Florida Territory, 1843, farmer, upstate N.Y., 1843-1855, bookstore employee, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1855-1856, determined mountain elevations in North Carolina and Tennessee, 1858, assistant geologist and naturalist, Texas Geological Survey, 1860-1861, U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1862-1865, state geologist of Texas, 1866-1867, 1874-1877, Ph.D. Waco University, 1872. **Abbreviated name**: *Buckley* \[standard form in IPNI: *Buckley*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection ALU|ALU]], [[Collection B|B]] (ex [[Collection MO|MO]]), [[Collection BM|BM]] (375), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection DWC|DWC]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GA|GA]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]] (ex [[Collection MO|MO]]), [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]] (orig. herb. to ca. 1858?; duplicates distributed ca. 1889 as "ex Shaw School of Botany"), [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (incl. [[Collection WECO|WECO]], Hamilton College & [[Collection DPU|DPU]]; lichens ex Fred. L. Sargent ex [[Collection MO|MO]]), [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]] (ex [[Collection CN|CN]]), [[Collection P|P]]-DU, pf (= Paul Fryxell), [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection TEX|TEX]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]]. *Nota bene*: Buckley had a large number of botanical correspondents and an active exchange, both in the US and Europe. At one point in the 1840s he attempted to support himself as a collector by selling specimens and he sent material to Wm. Pamphlin (sic?) of London on consignment. Later, when he was more prosperous Buckley purchased collections such as Lindheimer's Fascicles I-IV and Fendler's Venezuelan ferns. In addition to vascular plants, there is evidence that Buckley collected mosses, lichens, and algae. The present location(s) of these cryptogamic collections is not clear. He was also an important horticultural collector supplying Parsons & Co., Flushing, Long Island with thousands of roots and shrubs from the Southern Appalachians. He made wood specimens in Texas for Charles S. Sargent's Forestry Report in the 10th Census. They went to the Jesup Collection of the American Museum of Natural History, but have since been destroyed. *Types*: Buckley described 6 genera and 210 species of vascular plants. - (1) Buckley worked closely with Torrey and Gray in preparing his first (1843) botanical paper; lectotype material is consequently in [[Collection NY|NY]] and [[Collection GH|GH]], isotypes are widely scattered. - (2) Buckley studied his Texas collections (those made from 1859 to 1861) at [[Collection PH|PH]] and had access to Elias Durand's herbarium, which subsequently was deposited in Paris ([[Collection P|P]]-DU). Buckley based new species on his own collections and those of Nuttall, Wright, Fendler, etc., which had been deposited earlier in [[Collection PH|PH]]. Gray borrowed Buckley's new Texas species from Durand and [[Collection PH|PH]] and wrote several articles criticizing Buckley's work. Gray kept "kleptotypes" of some of this material. Of Buckley's own collections from this period I do not think there are duplicates outside of [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection P|P]]-DU, and [[Collection GH|GH]]. - (3) In 1883 Buckley sent specimens from Texas to the Torrey Botanical Club. A few new species described by Buckley were based on these plants and the types are at [[Collection NY|NY]], I have not seen duplicates elsewhere. Consequently, despite the fact that [[Collection MO|MO]] has Buckley's original herbarium, [[Collection MO|MO]] is not an important source of type material. #### Bibliography and biography Appleton 1: 439-440; Barnhart 1: 276 (b. 9 Mai 1809, Torrey Yates Co., N.Y., d. 18 Feb 1884, Austin, Texas); BM 1: 277; Clokie p. 140; CSP 1: 705-706, 7: 298, 9: 393, 12: 129, 13: 891; DAB 3: 232-235; Hortus 3: 1189; IF p. 685; IH 2: 105; Langman p. 168; Lenley p. 449; ME 1: 169, 3: 546 (index); NAF 28B(2): 322, ser. 2. 5: 234; Nickles p. 148-149; Quenstedt p. 66; Rehder 5(index): 133; TL-2/1: 397 and see indexes; Urban-Berl. p. 334; Zander ed. 10, p. 640, ed. 11, p. 729. #### Biofile - Anon., Samuel Botsford Buckley. Alumni Record of Wesleyan University 1881-1883; Prof. S.B. Buckley, Gard. Monthly (Meehan) 26: 154-155, 221. 1884 (obit.); Bot. Gaz. (Crawfordsville) 9: 82. 1884. - Berkeley, E. and D.S., A yankee botanist in the Carolinas, the Reverend Moses Ashey Curtis, D.D. 1808-1872, Berlin/Stuttgart 1986. - Carpenter, M.M., Bibl. Biogr. Entomol., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 14. 1945. - Dorr, L.J., Bull. Jard. Bot. nat. Belg. 56: 397-416. 1986 (colls. Middle W. U.S.). - Dorr, L.J. and K.C. Nixon, Taxon 34(2): 211-228. 1985 (typif. Quercus taxa descr. by B.). - Elliott, C.A., Biographical Dictionary American Science, the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries 44, 45. 1979. Westport (contains errors of fact!). - Geiser, S.W., Southwest Rev. 16: 133-134. 1930; Field & Lab. 4: 45. 1936; Naturalists of the Frontier 77, 211, 213, 263, 271. 1948. - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. III, 29: 171-172. 1885 (obit.). - Gray, J.L. (ed.), Letters of Asa Gray 311. 1894, Boston ("Buckley is often inquired after here (i.e. Asheville, N.C.), and seems to have been quite a favorite. He might have enlivened his journal had he informed us therein that he visited both Black and Bald Mountains with a merry company of ladies, and camped out on the summit! But the sly fellow kept all this to himself."; reprinted in Core, E.L., The botanical exploration of the Southern Appalachians, 2. Flora, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Research Division Monogr. 2: 42, 44. 1970). - Hart Wright, S., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 11(4): 46. 1884 (brief obit.). - Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico, Latin Amer. Studies Center, Monogr. Ser. no. 17, Michigan State Univ. 6. Jun 1979. - Merrill, E.D., Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 509, 692. - Mohr, C.T., Plant life Alabama 16. 1901. - Pennell, F.W., Scrophular. east temp. N. Amer. 602. 1935. - Petersen, R.H., Samuel Botsford Buckley's expedition into southern Appalachian Mountains in 1842..., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 49: 1-10. 1909. - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 173, 177, 298. 1942; Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 4, 22, 153, 275. 1944. - Sargent, C.S., Silva N. Amer. 3: 3-4. 1892. - Torrey, J. and A. Gray, A flora of North America 1: xii-xiii. 1838 ("from Illinois, Mr. Buckley has sent us large collections; and to him we are also indebted for many plants from the mountains of Virginia, and from Alabama."). - Trelease, W., Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1: 91-102. 1890 ("orig. herb.... purchased of the late Mrs. Rebecca Mann Dean (sic)..."). - Wright, B.H., Memories of local naturalists compiled by Berlin Hart Wright for Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society also Conservation Club of Keuka Park, N.Y. Publication Number One (B's biogr. 2 p., many errors of fact), undated; Bull. Torrey bot. Club 11: 46. 1884. #### Note Introduction by Laurence J. Dorr. #### Handwriting H.M. Burdet, Candollea 28: 141-142. 1973.