> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 511](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120642) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1696-1) LSID 1696-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q556591) QID Q556591 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Clifford, George (1685-1760), Dutch banker, governor of the Dutch East Indian Company, trustee of the *Hortus medicus* in Amsterdam and owner of the estate De Hartecamp south of Haarlem (near Bennebroek). **Abbreviated name**: *Clifford* \[standard form in IPNI: *G.Clifford*\] #### Herbarium and types Clifford's herbarium was acquired by Sir Joseph Banks in 1792 and is at the Botany Department of the [[Collection BM|British Museum]] (Natural History). It is important because it provided the basis for Linnaeus's *Hortus Cliffortianus* and *Viridiarum Cliffortianum*. After having been scattered through the general herbarium the specimens are now kept separately as a special herbarium arranged in accordance with the *Hortus Cliffortianus*; the size of the sheets is 41-45 × 26-28 cm. Linnaeus's handwriting is found on many sheets. Occasional Clifford specimens are at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. The story of Banks's acquisition of the Clifford herbarium can be learned from his correspondence with the Leiden botanist Sebald Justinus Brugmans (1763-1819) who acted as an intermediary between the Twenth family, which possessed the herbarium at the time, and Banks. Brugmans reports on 16 April 1792 that he has bought for Banks Twenth's herbarium. *Ref*.: - Candolle, Phytographie 404. 1880. - Rendle, J. Bot. 61: 114-119. 1923. - Stearn, An introduction to the Species plantarum in the Ray Society, facsimile of Linnaeus, Species plantarum, vol. 1, London 1957, pp. 44-50, 118-119. - Dawson, Banks Letters \[corr. Brugmans\] 179-180. 1955. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 147. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 589; Barnhart 1: 358; BB 1: 359; BM 1: 359; Kew 1: 571; KR p. 129. - MacOwan, Trans. S. Afr. philos. Soc. 4: xxxi. 1887. - Hulth, Bref och Skr. Linné 1: 423. 1916. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 128-129. 1936. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 369. 1971. #### Eponymy *Cliffordia* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Cliffortia* \[sic\] Linnaeus (1753). *Note.Cliffordia* E.J. Livera (1927) is dedicated to Hugh Clifford, english government officer, and his wife.