> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 668](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333807) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9779-1) LSID 9779-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1078398) QID Q1078398 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Smith, Christen (1785-1816), Norwegian botanist and physician; professor of botany at the University of Christiania (Oslo) 1814; travelled to Madeira and the Canary Islands 1815; botanist and geologist on the British expedition to the Congo under J.K. Tuckey 1816. **Abbreviated name**: *Chr. Sm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Sm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]. – Other material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection GDC|GDC]] \[[[Collection G|G]]-DC?\], [[Collection K|K]] (ex herb. R. Brown), [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection STR|STR]]. – Mss. autobiography at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 290 (b. 17 Oct 1785, d. 22 Sep 1816); BB p. 279; BM 4: 1943; Bossert p. 372; Desmond p. 565-566; Kleppa p. 10, 240, 272, 298, 311; PR 8729, 9582; Rehder 1: 491; Tucker 1: 655, 3: 285; Urban-Berl. 398. #### Biofile - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 224.54. 1980. - Buch, L. von, Edinburgh New philos. J. 1816 (Apr-Oct): 209-213 (obit.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 451. 1880 (Téneriffe pl. in G-DC) - Christensen, C., Dansk. bot. hist. 1: 220. 1924 (portr.), 2: 154. 1924 (bibl.)(d. 22 Sep 1816). - Dahl, O., Arch. Mat. Naturvid. \[Oslo\], 17(4): 35-93. 1894 (letters to J.W. Hornemann). - Fox Maule, A., Bot. Tidsskr. 69: 189, 190. 1974. - Gonzalez, G.L., Anal. Jard. bot. Madrid 39(1): 153-155. 1982 (on publication of "Christian Smith's" species by L. von Buch in 1819). - Hansen, A., Bot. Macaronesica 3: 25-34. 1978 (Canary pl.), 51: 12. 1980 (Madeira pl.). - Holmboe, J., Naturen 40: 257-274. 1916 (biogr. acct., portr.). - Hornemann, J., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 582. 1837. - Kiaer, F.C., ed., Prof. Christen Smiths dagbok paa reisen til de Canariske Öer i 1815, Vid. Selsk. Forh., Christiania 1889, 74 p. - Kleppa, P., *in* E. Jansen et al., eds., Norsk biogr. leks. 14: 63-69. 1962. - Lopez, G., Anal. Jard. bot. Madrid 39: 153-155. 1982 (nom. Canary pl.). - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 542-543. 1970 (Lambert's set of Smith plants). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 183, 1904 (coll. BM). - Nordhagen, R., Blyttia 22: 133-158. 1964 (on S. and the Oslo bot. gard., portr.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 946. 1863. - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 518. 1977 (mosses at BM, STR). - Sunding, P., Blyttia 38(4): 181-188. 1980 (on C. Smith, pioneer botanist in the Cape Verde Islands). - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 192, 205. 1882. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 102. 1880 (bibl.). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 171. 1903. - Woodward, B.B., *in* G. Murray, Hist. BM(NH) 1: 48. 1904 (mss. biography). #### Eponymy *Christiana* A.P. de Candolle (1824). #### Note The *Dagbok paa Reisen til de Canariska øer* i 1815 was published by F.C. Kiaer in 1889 as Christiania Vid.-Selsk. Forh. 1889(10), 74 p. The plants collected by C. Smith on that trip were described by L. von Buch, *Allgemeine Uebersicht der Flora auf den Canarischen Inseln*, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1816-1817: 337-384. 1819. For notes on this publication see A. Hansen (1978) and G.L. Gonzalez (1982). – For Smith's activity as a botanist on the Cape Verde Islands see Sunding (1980). ### Publications ##### n.12.190. Dagbok paa en Reise til Congo i Afrika **Title** Prof. C. Smith's *Dagbok paa en Reise til Congo i Afrika*. Christiania (Trykt hos Jacob Lehmann) 1819. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Dagb. Reise Afrika*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1819, portr. C. Smith, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-164, \[165, err.\]. *Copies*: HU, Yale Univ. *English version*: *in* J.K. Tuckey, *Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire*, usually called the Congo, in South Africa in 1816... London 1818, Qu., p. 227-336. – The plants collected by Smith are described in the Appendix 5: R. Brown, *Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Prof. C. Smith*, in the vicinity of the Congo, p. 420-485. See under J.K. Tuckey.