> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 409](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120540) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1291-1) LSID 1291-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1397207) QID Q1397207 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Burchell, William John (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Burchell, William John (1781-1863), British botanist and traveller in South Africa (1811-1815) and Brazil (1825-1829). **Abbreviated name**: *Burch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burch.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (including his manuscripts). Duplicates in many herbaria, see IH. Algae at [[Collection BM|BM]]. The manuscripts include a *Catalogus geographicus plantarum Africae australis extratropicae* (repr. McKay, J. S. Afr. Bot. 7. 1941). *Ref*.: BB p. 54; IH 1 (ed. 6): 356, 2: 106. - Candolle, Phytographie 401. 1880. - Koster, Taxon 18: 550. 1969. - Miller, Taxon 19: 517. 1970. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 60; Barnhart 1: 282; BB p. 54; BM 1: 187; Bossert p. 59; CSP 1: 724; DNB 7: 290; GR p. 392; Jackson p. 346; Kew 1: 423; Lasègue p. 565 \[index\]; PR 1377. - Burchell, J. Sci. Arts. London 2: 79-86. 1817 (African travels 1811-1815). - Hooker, Bot. Misc. 2: 128-133. 1831 (Braz. journey). - Candolle, Mémoires et Souvenirs 268, 414. 1862. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1863: xxxiv-xxxv. - Poulton, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. ser. 7. 13: 45-56. 1904. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 76. 1905 (ref. to portr.) - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 22. 1906. - Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 10. 1906 (itin. Brazil). - Poulton, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1906-07: 64-65. 1907. - Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista 8: 482-484. 1908. - Marloth, The flora of South Africa 1: viii. 1913 (portr.) - Verduyn de Boer, Botanists at the Cape 56-58. 1929 (portr.) - McKay, J. S. Afr. Bot. 7: 1-18, 61-76, 115-130, 173-186. 1941; 9: 27-78. 1943 (itin.) - Hutchinson, A botanist in Southern Africa 625-641. 1946 (biogr., itinerary, localities). - Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 13-14. 1963. - Smith and Smith, Phytologia 14(8): 492-506. 1967 (Brazilian itinerary). - Coats, The plant hunters 261-263, 354. 1969. - Ffolliott and Liversidge, Ludwig Krebs 159. 1971. - Schweizer, Veld & Flora 1: 26-27, 46-47, 65-67. 1971; 2: 9-11, 30-31, 49-51, 70-71. 1972; 3: 10-11, 30-31, 50-51, 69-71. 1973, 4: 10-11, 30-31, 50-51, 70-71. 1974. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 302. 1975. #### Eponymy *Burchellia* R. Brown (1820). #### Handwriting J. S. Afr. Bot. 7. *pl. vi.* 1941. ### Publications ##### n.920. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa **Title** *Travels in the interior of Southern Africa*. London (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown) 1822-1824, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Trav. S. Africa*. **Notes** *Original ed*., vol. 1 "with an entirely new map, and numerous engravings"; vol. 2 'with numerous engravings.' 1: 1822, (p. viii: Feb 1822; Monthly Rev. Sep 1822), p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix-xi, cont., pl.\], errata slip, \[1\]-582, *pl. 1-10*, map, *vignettes 1-50*, 1-4 hints migration; number of copies printed 750. *Copies*: BR, MICH, Teyler. 2: Jan-Jun 1824 (Monthly Crit. Gaz. 1(6): 522-524. Nov 1824; Monthly Rev. Jun 1824), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-648, *pl. 1-10, vignettes 1-46.* (plates hand col. copper engr. after drawings by Burchell). Number of copies printed 500. *Copies*: BR, MICH, Teyler. *Abridged ed*., "Selections from..." ed. H. C. Notcutt, Oxford 1938, fifth impression 1951. *Reprint ed*., (not facs.), with intr. by I. Schapera and lists of Burchell's own corrections. London 1953. (1250 copies). *German translation*: Reisen in das Innere von Süd-Afrika, Weimar 1822-1825, 2 vols. Oct. n.v. *Ref*.: BM 1: 287; Kew 1: 423; PR 1377; IDC 5263 (1953 ed.)