> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 253](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266560) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12368-1) LSID 12368-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716978) QID Q716978 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Burman, Nicolaas Laurens|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Burman, Nicolaas Laurens (1733-1793), Dutch botanist and physician, son of Johannes Burman, born in Amsterdam, studied botany with his father in Amsterdam, and medicine at the University of Leiden 1752-1759, travelled in Denmark and Sweden 1760 visiting Linnaeus at Uppsala, assisted his father at the Amsterdam Athenaeum illustre from 1761, succeeded him as full professor of botany in 1777, was an early user of the Linnaean binary nomenclature, had as well a regular medical practise from 1761, involved in the writing of the Pharmacopoea Amstelodamensis nova. **Abbreviated name**: *Burm. f.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burm.f.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]]. – Further material in [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection M|M]]. – See for the Burmans' (father and son) herbaria TL-2/1: 413 and 416. #### Bibliography and biography Aa 2: 1607-1609; AG 2(1): 74, 7: 475; Backer p. 91; Barnhart 1: 286 (d. 11 Sep 1793, Amsterdam); BM 1: 289; Dawson p. 188; Dryander 3: 177, 178, 298, 300; GF p. 53; Hortus 3: 1189; IF p. 685; IH 2: 108; Jackson p. 383; JW 2: 187-188, 3: 347; Kew 1: 432; KR p. 109; Langman p. 17; Lasègue p. 66, 565 (index); MW p. 59; NI 304; NNBW 4: 354; PFC 1: xxxvii; Plesch p. 166; PR 1395-1396, 9669, ed. 1: 1584-1585; Rehder 5(index): 139; RS p. 77; Saccardo 1: 40; SK 1: 53, 93, cxlviii, 4: xcvii; SO 650a, 2534a; TL-1: 69; TL-2/1: 416-417 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 127; Zander ed. 10, p. 642, ed. 11, p. 730. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Sçavans, Amsterdam ed. Mai 1760, p. 325-330; Allg. Konst- Letterbode 11(274): 198-200. 1793; N. Ann. Bot., Usteri 2(8): 91-94. 1795; A fine field for botanising, Catal-Exh. 13-th Intern. Bot. Congress, Sydney, Australia 1981, p. 8. - Baldwinger, N. Magaz. Aertze 15: 522-524. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.12, 255.341. 1980 (mss.). - Brown, N.E., Kew Bull. 1929(4): 129 (Iridaceae of B's *Florae capensis prodromus*). - Burman-Becker, J.G., Notices hist. général. Burman 13-14. 1860. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 401. 1880. - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820, p. 72, 117. - Dandy, J.E., Bothalia 7(3): 427-428. 1961; Regn. Veg. 51: 11. 1967. - De Vos, M.P., S. Afr. biogr. woordenb. 1: 143. 1968. - Engel, H., Bijdr. Dierk. 27: 263. 1939. - Florijn, P.J., Taxon 36(1): 34-38. 1987. - Forbes, R.J., ed., Martinus van Marum 3: 145, 149. 1971. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 526. 1878. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(1): 81. 1907, 1(3): 73-74, 255. 1909, 1(5): 7, 33, 53, 259. 1911, 1(6): 87, 129, 217, 434. 1912. - Hall, H.C. van, Epistolae ineditae Caroli Linnaei. 1830 (letters N.L. Burman – Linnaeus). - Haller, A. von, Bibl. bot. 2: 489. 1772. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 40, 41, 43, 289, 293-297, 303, 306, 310. 1916. - Hulth, J.M. and A.H. Uggla, Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 36-39 (passim). 1943. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 300. 1864. - Kalkman, C. and P. Smit, eds., Blumea 25(1): 57. 1979. - Karsten, M.C., J. S. Afr. Bot. 5(1): 2-18 (*pl. 4*, handwriting). Jan 1939 (portr.); The Old Company's Garden at the Cape 1951, p. 79, 80, 88. - Kobus, J.C. and Jhr.W. de Rivecourt, Biogr. woordenboek van Nederland ed. 2. 1: 295. 1886. - Merrill, E.D., Philipp. J. Sci. 19: 329-388. 1921 (on B's new species). - Riedel, H., Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 2. 53: 205-223. 1980 (B's use of L. Garcin's collections for his *Flora indica*). - Rothmaler, W., Fedde Repert. spec. nov. 53(1): 32. 1944 (date specimen bot. de Geraniis). - Savage, S., Cat. Linn. Herb., London xiii. 1945 (handwriting). - Sirks, M.J., Indisch natuuronderzoek 80-81. 1915. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 94-95.1975. - Stafleu, F.A., Intr. Jussieu, Gen. Pl. (reprint) xxxv. 1964; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 169-171. 1971. - Stearn, W.T., Introd. facsimile Linn. Mantissa, Weinheim viii-x. 1961. - Steenis-Kruseman, M.J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 14: 642. 1959. - Tyrell-Glyn, W. and M.L. Levyns, Flora africana 15. 1936. - Uggla, A.H., Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Årsskr. 20: 128-144. 1937 (Linnaeus and the Burmans). - Verduijn de Boer, J.H., Botanists at the Cape 30. 1929. - White, A. and B.L. Sloane, The Stapeliae ed. 2. 1118. 1937. #### Notes - (1) N.L. Burman, *Prodromus florae capensis* is part of *Flora Indica*, TL-2/935. - (2) *Felicis Valle*, medici taurinenses, *Flora corsicae* ex ipsius schedis collecta a Carolo Alliono, auctor ex scriptis Dr. Janssen, et publicum in usum communicata... Nova Acta Leopoldina 4(app.): 205-254. 1770. – Miscellanea taurinensia 2: 204-218, 1 pl. 1762.