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> [!example] See also [[Carson, Joseph (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Carson, Joseph (1808-1876), American botanist at Philadelphia.
**Abbreviated name**: *Carson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Carson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection PH|PH]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 117.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 316; CSP 1: 802; ME 3: 549; NI 333; PR 1545.
- Carson, Hist. med. dept. Univ. Pennsylvania, 1869, 227 p.
- Harshberger, Botanists of Philadelphia 199-208, 441 \[index\]. 1899.
### Publications
##### n.1032. Illustrations of medical botany
**Title**
*Illustrations of medical botany*: consisting of coloured figures of the plants affording the important articles of the materia medica. And descriptive letterpress. Philadelphia (Robert P. Smith) 1847. 2 vols. Fol.
**Abbreviated title**: *Ill. med. bot.*
**Notes**
*Vol. 1*: 1847, p. \[1\]-63, *pl. 1-53*, handcol. liths. by J. H. Colen. *Copy*: NY.
*Vol. 2*: 1847, p. \[3\]-60, *pl*. "*47*" \[= *54*\]-*100. Cop*: NY.
*Ref*.: NI 333; PR 1545.