> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 528](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120659) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1746-1) LSID 1746-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350818) QID Q1350818 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Collinson, Peter (1694-1768), British "woollen-draper," botanist and horticulturist, who introduced many North American plants into Europe, "amicus botanicorum." **Abbreviated name**: *Collinson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Collinson*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; specimens labelled "Collins\[on\] ex America boreali" in [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg), other specimens at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]] and Royal Society (London). *Ref*.: BM 1: 367. - Dandy, Sloane herbarium 114. 1958. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxf. 148. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 369; BB p. 70-71; BM 1: 367; DNB 11: 382-383; Jackson p. 415; Kew 1: 590; ME 1: 173, 3: 554. - Fothergill, J., Some account of the late Peter Collinson. London 1770 (portr.). - Pulteney, Sketches 2: 275-277. 1790. - Smith, Peter Collinson in Rees Cycl. 8. 1807. - Lambert, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 270-282. 1811 (on a mss.). - Smith, Selection corr. Linnaeus 1: 1-77. 1821. - Darlington, Reliquiae baldwinianae 449. 1843. - Dillingham, W. H., A tribute to the memory of Peter Collinson, second edition, Philadelphia 1851, 37 p., (portr.); ed. 2, Philadelphia 1852, 48 p. - Collinson, M., Some anecdotes of the late Peter Collinson. London 1885. - Harshberger, Botanists of Philadelphia 442 \[index\]. 1899. - Scott, Index Sloane manuscripts Brit. Mus. 117. 1904. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 29. 1906. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Bergiani 3(2): 154. 1903, 3(3): 166. 1905 (portr.). - Hulth, Bref och Skr. Linné ser. 2. 1: 423. 1916. - Fox, Fothergill, 157, 425 \[index\]. 1919. - Brett-James, The life of Peter Collinson. London \[1925\] (inaccurate) (portr.). - Collinson, J. Bot. 63: 163-165. 1925 (list of American seeds). - Fagin, William Bartram 221 \[index\]. 1933. - Earnest, J. & W. Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940. - Swem, Antiquarian Society Proceedings 68: 17-190. 1948. - Dahlgren, Svensk bot. Tidskr. 50(2): 306-307. 1956 (veg. mutations, letter Linnaeus). - Brooke Hindle, The pursuit of science in revolutionary America, Chapel Hill 1959. - Ewan, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 103(6): 811. 1959. - Frick and Stearns, Mark Catesby 131. 1961. - Stearn, Catalogue botanical books Hunt 2: lxxx-lxxxi. 1961. - Edwards, J. roy. hort. Soc. London 93: 329-333. 1968 (portr.). - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town 372. 1969. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. U.S. 3, 31, 33-35. 1969. - James, The trees of Bicton 106-107. 1969. - Edwards, Morris Arboretum Bull. 21(2): 41-44. 1970. - Frick, DSB 3: 349-351. 1971. #### Note For *Hortus collinsonianus* see L. W. Dillwyn 1843. #### Eponymy *Collinsonia* Linnaeus (1753).