> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 223](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266530) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1286-1) LSID 1286-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5499059) QID Q5499059 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Burbidge, Frederick William Thomas|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Burbidge, Frederick William Thomas (1847-1905), English botanist, born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, gardener in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick, gardener at Kew 1868-1870, on the staff of "The Garden" 1873-1877, collected living plants for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in North Borneo, Sulu Archipelago, Philipp. Isl. 1877-1879, curator of the Botanic Garden of Trinity College, Dublin 1879-1905, master of arts honoris causa of Dublin University 1889. **Abbreviated name**: *Burb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burb.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection K|K]], further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BO|BO]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection SING|SING]], [[Collection W|W]] (orch.). #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 400; Backer p. 90; Barnhart 1: 282; BB p. 54; BM 1: 287; Clokie p. 141; CSP 9: 299, 12: 133, 13: 917; Desmond p. 106 (b. Wymeswold, Leics. 21 Mar 1847, d. Dublin 24 Dec 1905); DNB suppl. 2(1): 257; GF p. 52; Hortus 3: 1189; IH 2: 106; Jackson p. 528 (index); Kew 1: 422; Langman p. 170; Morren ed. 10, p. 79; MW p. 58-59; NI 297; Rehder 5(index): 136; SK 1: 88-89, xxxi, 5: cclxvi, 8: xviii; TL-2/1: 409; Tucker 1: 125; Urban-Berl. p. 290, 319; Zander ed. 10, p. 642, ed. 11, p. 730. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 38: 460. 1905, 39: 10. 1906; J. Kew Guild 1905: 269, 1906: 326-327 (portr.); Garden 69: 18. 1906 (d.); Orch. Rev. 14: 8. 1906; J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 73: 288. 1948. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.290. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 44: 80. 1906. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 207-209. 1969. - Fletcher, H.R., Story Roy. Hort. Soc. 6, 227, 241, 272. 1969. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 27(3): 267. 1938 (dir. Trinity College Botanic Gardens 1879-1905). - H.B., J. Bot. 13: 247-248. 1875 (rev. *Narcissus*, TL-2/919). - Healey, B.J., The plant hunters 148-149. 1975. - Hedge, I. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 66. 1970. - Hemsley, W.B., Kew Bull. 1906: 392-393. - Moore, F.W., Irish Naturalist 15(3): 71-72. 1906; Notes Bot. School Trinity Coll., Dublin 2: 44-46. 1909. - Reinikka, M.A., A history of the Orchid 258-259. 1972. - Veitch, H.J., Hortus Veitchii 75-78, 399. 1906. - Willis, D., Moorea 2: 45-53. 1983 (corr. to B. on daffodils). - Woodward, B.A., *in* Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. British Mus. 1: 32. 1904 (see also p. 138). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 90. 1903, 3(3): 76. 1905 (on portr.). #### Note - (1) *Horticulture* by F.W. Burbidge, London (E. Stanford) 1877, 288 p. ### Publications ##### n.23.639. botanical drawing **Title** The art of *botanical drawing*... London (Winsor and Newton,...) 1873. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. draw.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1873 (preface dated p. 13: 1873), p. \[1\], frontisp., \[3\]-63, *figs. 1-18* (uncol. liths. by author, partly on unnumbered pages, partly in text). *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: H.B., J. Bot. 11: 283-284. Sep 1873 (rev.). ##### n.23.640. Cool Orchids **Title** *Cool Orchids* and how to grow them; with a descriptive list of all the best species in cultivation... London (Robert Hardwicke...) 1874. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cool Orch.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1874 (p. iii signed 1 Jan 1874), frontisp., p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-160, *4 unnumb. col. pl. Copy*: L. *German translation*: Die *Orchideen* des temperirten und kalten Hauses. Ihre Cultur und Beschreibung etc. nebst einer Synopsis aller bisher bekannten Cypripedien... Aus dem Englischen übersetzt \[of *Cool Orchids*, above\] von M. Lebl. Zweite Auflage \[?\]. – Preface dated Feb 1882, col. frontisp. *pl. 1*, p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-186, *pl. 2-4* (col. liths.). *Copies*: HH, L. *Note*: Bot. Zeit. 26 Mai 1882, Nat. Nov. Apr (2) 1882). ##### n.23.641. Cultivated plants **Title** *Cultivated plants* their propagation and improvement... Edinburgh and London (William Blackwood and Sons) 1877. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cult. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1877, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-618, \[1\]-2 adv. *Copies*: MO, NY. ##### n.23.642. gardens of the sun **Title** The *gardens of the sun*: or a naturalist's journal on the mountains and in the forests and swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago... London (John Murray,...) 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gard. sun*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880, p. \[i\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xviii, \[xix\], \[1\]-364 (several plates on unnumbered pages, others in text). *Copies*: MO, U. – Appendix on p. 345-350: J.G. Baker, *List of ferns in Borneo*, 350-351: J.G. Baker, Report on Burbidge's *ferns of the Sulu Archipelago*. ##### n.23.643. Chrysanthemum **Title** The *Chrysanthemum* its history, culture, classification and nomenclature... London ("The Garden" Office... Covent Garden) 1884. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Chrysanthemum*. **Notes** *Publ*.: *Ed. 1*: 1884 (Nat. Nov. Nov (1) 1884, Bot. Zeit. 26 Dec 1884), p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-102. *Copies*: G, MO. *Ed. 2*: 1885, p. \[1\]-140. *Copies*: MO, NY.