> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120094) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/34-1) LSID 34-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158174) QID Q158174 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Abel, Clarke (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Abel, Clarke (1789-1826), British surgeon who travelled to China with Amherst, 1816-1817. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Abel* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Abel*\] #### Herbarium and types R. Brown described the plants collected on Abel's journey to China; they are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. Some material also at [[Collection K|K]]. – Most of the original collections from China were lost in shipwreck except those previously sent to Sir George Staunton. *Ref*.: IH 2: 25. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 6; BB p. 1; BM 1: 2; Bretschneider p. 225-227; CSP 1: 4; Dawson p. 5; DNB 1: 32-33; Frank p. 1; Kew 1: 3; Lasègue p. 435; MW p. 1; PR 2; Zander ed. 10, p. 590. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 1. 1936. - Coats, The plant hunters 94-95, 151. *pl. 7*. 1969. #### Eponymy *Abelia* R. Brown (1818). – *Note: Abeliella* Mägdefrau (1937) is dedicated to Othenio Abel (1875-x), Austrian palaeontologist. #### Note Barnhart accepts 1789 as year of birth on the basis of Taylor's Sch. Reg. 2: 172 which lists Abel's class as of 1789. Other sources have *b*. 1780. ### Publications ##### n.3. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China **Title** *Narrative of a journey in the interior of China*, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin, and observations on the countries which it visited. London (Longman, Hurst, et al.) 1818. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. Journey China*. **Notes** *Orig. ed*.: 1818, Jul-Dec (dedication Jul 1818; Quart. Rev. London Jan 1819), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-420, 4 maps, *8 col. pl., 11 uncol. pl. Copy*: Ewan. – On p. 374-379, Robert Brown, "characters and descriptions of three new species of plants; selected from the only part of Mr. Abel's China herbarium that escaped the wreck of the Alceste," *3 pl*. *Reprint*: 1971, Arno Press, p. \[i-iii\], \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-420. *Copy*: HU. *Ref*.: BM 1: 2; Kew 1: 3; MW p. 1; PR 2; IDC 6449.