> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 49](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265726) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1530-1) LSID 1530-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448279) QID Q448279 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Chapman, Alvan Wentworth|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Chapman, Alvin \[Alvan\] Wentworth (1809-1899), American botanist and physician, born in Southampton, Mass., graduated at Amherst 1830, sometime teacher in Georgia and North-Carolina, finished his medical studies in Louisville, Kentucky 1835, settled in Florida, at first in Quincy, later in Marianna and, since 1847, in Apalachicola as physician, died in the latter village on 6 Apr 1899. **Abbreviated name**: *Chapm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Chapm.*\] #### Herbarium and types See TL-2/1: 485. – *Additional holdings*: [[Collection AUA|AUA]], [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection BM|BM]] (713 specimens), [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]] (incl. [[Collection FH|FH]]), [[Collection IA|IA]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (original herb.), [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]]-DU, [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WECO|WECO]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. *Letters*: in Torrey correspondence at [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 332 (b. 28 Sep 1809, Southampton, Mass., d. 6 Apr 1899, Apalachicola, Fla.); BL 1: 161, 172, 290; BM 1: 336, 6: 195; Bossert p. 70; Clokie p. 145; CSP 12: 152, 14: 154; DAB 4: 16-17 (biographer D.C. Peattie); DSB 196-197 (Ewan); Hortus 3: 1190; IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 122; Jackson p. 361; Kew 1: 515; Langman p. 149; ME 1: 171, 3: 441, 485, 551; Morren ed. 10, p. 118; NAF 28B(2): 223, ser. 2. 8: 234; PR 1665; Rehder 1: 319, 2: 12; TL-1: 80-81, TL-2/1: 485-486; Tucker 1: 150; Zander ed. 10, p. 644, ed. 11, p. 733. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 5(6): 28. Jun 1874 ("is desirous of disposing of his herbarium" – Note: major part of the herbarium is now at NY); Bot. Gaz. 20(12): 557. 1895 (C.'s herb. purchased by G.V. Vanderbilt for his seat at Biltmore N.C.), see Bot. Gaz. 21(6): 384. 17 Jun 1896 (Vanderbilt set went to Columbia University; now in NY), 27(5): 415. 20 Mai 1899 (d.), 29(2): 151-152. 20 Feb 1900 (8300 specimen bought from C.'s estate which went to MO); Concise diction. Amer. biogr. 157. 1964. - Barnhart, J.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 25(297): 228 (note 2). 1924, 26(307): 147. 1925, 36(422): 27. 1935. - Britton, N.L., Bot. Gaz. 12(1): 9. Jan 1887 (herb. mat. of nearly all species... in the Flora S. U.S., bought by J.J. Crooke, who presented it to Columbia College (now at NY)). - C.L.F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 24(4): 210-243. 24 Apr 1897 (revision of *Fl. South U.S.*, ed. 3, 1897, see TL-2/1: 1086). - Cullen, J., Taxon 21(5-6): 730. 1972 (coll. C. also in E). - Ewan, J., Southw. Lousianna J. 7: 27 (no. 89, 1860); *in* R.W. Long and O. Lakela, Fl. Trop. Florida 4, 5. 1971. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 44, 163. 1969. - Grimes, J.W. and S. Keller, Brittonia 34(4): 372. 1982 (C. material at WECO ex herb. Barratt). - Harper, R.M., Centenary of a botanist, *in* N.Y. Times Saturday rev. of books. 8 Jan 1910. - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 353. 1980. - Humphrey, H.B., Makers of N. Amer. bot. 50-51. 1961. - Jones, S.B., Jr., Castanea 26: 127-128. 1961 (over 1000 specimen from C. in AUA). - Kelly, H.A., Some American med. botanists. 163-164. 1914. - Kimbal, W., J. New York Bot. Gard. 22: 1-11. 1921 (reminiscences). - Knowlton, F.H., Plant world 2(9): 141-143. Jun 1899 (portr.). - Lack, H.W. and O. v. Sydow, Willdenowia 13: 417. 1983 (letter to Keck by C. in UPS-UB). - Lamson-Scribner, F., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 20(8): 330-332. 10 Aug 1893. - Masters, M., Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 25: 266. 1899/1900. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 147. 1981 (large herb. coll. of C. presented 1866). - Mohr, Ch., Bot. Gaz. 27(6): 473-478. 1899 (biogr., portr., contains also "a brief outline of the history of my \[Chapman\] life"). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 139. 1904 (713 Florida plants purchased 1845). - Murrill, W.A., Hist. found. bot. Florida 13: 1945. - Peattie, D.C., Dict. Amer. biogr. 4: 16-17. 1938. - Rodgers, A.D., John Torrey 119, 168, 172, 176-177, 203, 260, 268, 296-297. 1942; Amer. bot. 4, 84-85, 94, 113-115, 117, 200, 217, 232, 240, 306-307, 313, 324. 1944. - Ruge, J.G., Gulf fauna and flora Bull. 1(1): 1-5. 1899 (notes, portr.). - Sargent, C.S., Silva N. Amer. 7: 110 (note 4). 1895. - Schofield, E.K., Brittonia 30(3): 404. 1978 (C. mat. 1830-1840). - Sheldon, C.S., *in* H.A.Kelly and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 206-207. 1920. - Stafleu, F.A., Caption for portraits of botanists no. 66, with G.S. Daniels *in* Taxon 23(5-6): 706. 1971. - Trelease W., Amer. Naturalist 33: 643-646. 1899 (with photo.; biogr.). - Urban, I., Symb. Antill. 3(1): 30-31. 1 Mar 1902. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 35-36. 1981 (herb. mat. in herb. Grisebach). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 193. 1905. #### Notes - (1): Chapman published with D.C. Eaton the second edition of *The ferns of North America*, ed. 2, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-698. New York 1883. *Copy*: BM, *in* A.W. Chapman, *Flora of the southern United States*... second edition 1883 (see BM 2: 502) - (2): *Flora of the southern United States*, New York 1860. Oct., see TL-2/1086. – *Addition*: *Reissue* 2: 1872, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxviii, \[xxxix-xl\], \[1\]-621. *Copies*: PH, Morton Arboretum (inf. M.T. Stieber). #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl. 3.* 1957. ### Publications ##### n.25.543. plants **Title** A list of the *plants* growing spontaneously in the vicinity of Quincy, Florida... From the Western Journal of medicine and surgery... Louisville... 1845. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1845 (Boston Soc. Nat. rd. by 19 Nov 1845), p. \[1\]-23. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Western J. Med. Surg. 3(6): 461-483. 1845. *Ref*.: BL 1: 172, Tucker 1: 150. ##### n.25.544. enumeration **Title** An *enumeration* of some *plants* – chiefly from the *semi-tropical regions of Florida* – which are either new, or which have not hitherto been recorded as belonging to the flora of the Southern States... \[Botanical Gazette 1878\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1878, *in* Bot. Gaz. 3(1): 2-6. Jan, 3(2): 9-12. Feb, 3(3): 17-21. Mar 1870. *Copy*: NY (tearsheet).