> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 492](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120623) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/34742-1) LSID 34742-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q708134) QID Q708134 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Chesney, Francis Rawdon (1789-1872), British general who collected plants on an expedition to the Euphrates. **Abbreviated name**: *Chesney* \[standard form in IPNI: *Chesney*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BOLO|BOLO]] and various other herbaria (e.g. [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]]). *Ref*.: BB p. 63; IH 2: 124. - Candolle, Phytographie 403. 1880. - Miller, Taxon 19: 518. 1970. - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 69. 1970. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 606; Barnhart 1: 339; BB p. 63; BM 1: 342; CSP 1: 896, 7: 382; DNB 10: 185; Kew 1: 528. - Anon., J. Bot. 10: 96. 1872. - Embacher, Lexikon Reisen 76. 1882. #### Eponymy *Chesneya* Lindley ex Endlicher (1840). ### Publications ##### n.1096. The expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris **Title** *The expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris*, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836 and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. London (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans) 1850, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Exped. Euphrates Tigris*. **Notes** *Vol. 1*: 1850 (p. vi: 5 Feb 1850), p. \[i\]-xxvii, \[xxviii-xxix\], \[1\]-799, *pl. 1, 3-9, 11-26, 28, 33, 37, 39, 42, 43*. 12 maps. *Copy*: MICH. *Vol. 2*: 1850, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-778, *pl. 2, 10, 27, 29-31, 34-36, 38, 40-41, 45-47, 50, 51*, "*83*." *Copy*: MICH. *Ref*.: BM 1: 342; Kew 1: 528. ##### n.1097. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition **Title** *Narrative of the Euphrates expedition* carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. London (Longmans, Green, and Co.) 1868. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. Euphrates exped.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep-Dec 1868 (pref. 7 Sep 1868), frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xviii, \[1\]-564, *45 plates* (nos. between 52 and 97), 16 woodcuts, 2 maps. *Copy*: MICH. *Ref*.: Kew 1: 528.