> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 226](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266533) of TL-2 Suppl. III > 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|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Burchell, William John (1781-1863), British gardener, collector, explorer, Kew gardener, elected F.L.S. 1803, with the East India Company, schoolmaster and botanist at St. Helena 1805-1810, undertook private collecting expeditions in South Africa 1811-1815, explored and collected in Brazil, 1825-1826, around Rio de Janeiro, in the interior of Brazil and Argentina 1825-1829, returned to England, heir to R.A. Salisbury. **Abbreviated name**: *Burch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burch.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]], further material in [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection B|B]](1074), [[Collection BM|BM]] (algae), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection GRA|GRA]], [[Collection H|H]]-SOL, [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PRE|PRE]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]] (orch.). #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 60; Barnhart 1: 282; BB p. 54; BM 1: 287; Bossert p. 59; Clokie p. 141-142; CSP 1: 724; Desmond p. 106; DNB 7: 290-291; GR p. 392; Henrey 3: no. 536; Hortus 3: 1189; IH 1 (ed. 6): 358, 2: 106; Jackson p. 346; Kew 1: 423; Lasègue p. 565 (index); PR 1377, ed. 1: 1565-1566; Rehder 1: 494; SK 5: cclxvi; TL-2/1: 409-410 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 136; Urban-Berl. p. 319, 334; Zander ed. 10, p. 642, ed. 11, p. 730. #### Biofile - Anderson, F. and R. Geary-Cooke, Veld & Flora 6(3): 8-10. 1975 (portr.). - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1863: xxxiv-xxxv; The Times 27 Mar 1863; Dict. S. Afr. biogr. 2: 104-106. 1972; The manuscript papers of British scientists 1600-1910. 15. 1982. - Axelson, E., South Afr. explorers 110-140. 1954. - Barnhart, C.L., The new cyclopedia of names 1: 715. 1954. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.59, 255.66, 255.70, 269.87. 1980. - Burchell, W.J., J. Sci. Arts London 2: 79-86. 1817 (African travels 1811-1815). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 401. 1880. - Candolle, A.P. de, Mémoires et souvenirs 268, 414. 1862. - Carpenter, M.M., Bibl. of biogr. of entomologists, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 33(1): 14. 1945. - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820. 625 (index). 1988. - Cleverly, L., A short biography W.J. Burchell. Prestige Art Press (printer) 39 p., s.d. \[i.e. 1989\]. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters, Quest for plants 261-263, 354. 1969. - Cronk, Q.C.B., Arch. Nat. Hist. 15(1): 45-60. 1988 (B. and the botany of St. Helena). - Davies, K.C., J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 9(4): 455-475. 1980. - Davies, K.C. and J. Hull, *in* A. Wheeler and J.H. Price, History in the service of systematics 95-98. 1981; Arch. nat. Hist. 11(2): 317-342. 1983 (B's bird coll.). - Ferrez, G., O Brazil do primeiro reinado visto pelo botânico William John Burchell 1825/29. Rio de Janeiro 1981. - Ffolliott, P. and R. Liversidge, Ludwig Krebs, Cape naturalist to the King of Prussia 1792-1844. 159. 1971. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 525. 1878. - Gunn, M. and L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Africa 109-110. 1981 (many details on his S. Afr. travels, portr.). - Harvey, W.H., Genera S. Afr. pl. xii. 1838. - Healey, B.J., The plant hunters 149-151, 153, 196. 1975. - Hooker, W.J., Bot. Misc. 2: 128-133. 1831 (Brazil journey). - Hutchinson, J., Botanist in Southern Africa 625-641. 1946 (biogr., itin., localities). - Ihering, H., Rev. Mus. Paulista 8: 482-484. 1908. - Jackson, B.D., Kew Bull. 1901(1): 12. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 472. 1864. - Karstens, M.C., The Old Company's Garden at the Cape 99. 1951. - Koster, J. Th., Taxon 18: 550. 1969. - Levyns, M.R.B., Insnar'd with flowers 71-79, *pl. 8.* 1977. - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter botanicus 200. 1985. - Marloth, H.W.R., The flora of South Africa 1: viii. 1903 (portr.). - McKay, H.H., J. S. Afr. Bot. 7: 1-18, 61-76, 115-130, 173-186. 1941, 9: 27-48. 1943 (itin.); African drawings of William John Burchell 1938-1952, 2 vols.; S. Afr. J. Sci. 32: 689-695. 1935. - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 517. 1970. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 22. 1906. - Notcutt, H.C., Pioneers 93-159. 1924. - Papavero, N., Essays hist. Neotrop. dipterol. 2: iii, 221-229. - Phillips, E.P., S. Afr. J. Sci. 27: 41, 46. 1930 (coll. 8700 plants in S. Afr.). - Prance, G.T., Acta Amazonica 1(1): 30. 1971. - Poulton, E.B., Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. ser. 7. 13: 45-46. 1904; William John Burchell 1905, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1906-1907: 64-65. 1907. - Reynolds, G.W., Aloes of S. Afr. 53-56. 1969. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 302. Mai 1975. - Schweizer, A., 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. - Smith, L.B. and R.C. Smith, Phytologia 14(8): 492-506. 1967 (itin. Brazil). - Steinberg, W.J., Webbia 32(1): 20. 1977 (material at FI-W). - Stieber. M.T., Huntia 3(2): 118, 123. 1979 (mss. at US, Chase mss.). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 76. 1981 (letter to Agardh at HU). - Swainson, W., Taxidermy, bibl., biogr. 383. 1840. - Tyrrell-Glynn, W. and M.L. Levyns, Fl. africana 13-14. 1963. - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 10. 1906 (itin. Brazil). - Verduyn de Boer, Botanists at the Cape 56-58. 1929 (portr.). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 33. 1982. - Wilson, E.H., Plant hunting 50, 61. 1927. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 76. 1905 (on portr.). #### Note - (1) Herbarium, letters and mss. at Kew, including a *Catalogus geographicus plantarum Africae australis extratropicae* (repr. McKay, J. S. Afr. Bot. 7. 1941.