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### Author
Coulter, Thomas (1793-1846), Irish botanist, in Central Mexico 1825-1834, curator of the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin.
**Abbreviated name**: *T. Coulter* \[standard form in IPNI: *Coult.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
original herbarium at [[Collection TCD|TCD]], "first set" of Mexican material at [[Collection K|K]], other important sets at [[Collection GH|GH]] and [[Collection NY|NY]]; types of Dipsacaceae in [[Collection G|G]]-DC.
*Ref*.: BB p. 74, IH 2: 141.
- Candolle, Phytographie 405. 1880.
- McVaugh, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 33: 65-70. 1943.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 49. 1953.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 307. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 5(2): 73; Barnhart 1: 387; BB p. 74; BM 1: 395; Bossert p. 85; GSP 2: 73; Kew 1: 631; Lasègue p. 468; PR 1929; Zander (ed. 10), p. 647.
- Candolle, Hist. bot. genev. 59. 1830.
- Coulter, J. roy. geogr. Soc. London 5: 59-70. 1835.
- Romney Robinson, Proc. roy. Irish Acad. 2: 553-557. 1844.
- Candolle, Mémoires et souvenirs 325, 331, 332, 357, 389. 1862.
- Hemsley, Biologia Centr. Amer. 4: 125. 1887.
- Sargent, Silva 3: 84. 1892.
- Coville, Bot. Gaz. 20: 519-531. 1895 (map, explorations).
- Wright, Notes Bot. School Dublin 1: 3-4. 1896.
- Eastwood, Calif. Hist. Soc. Quart. 18(4): 341. 1939.
- Briquet, Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 196-198. 1940 (bibl.)
- Alden and Ifft, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci. 20: 38-39. 1943.
- Lloyd Praeger, Some Irish naturalists 68. 1949.
- Ewan, *in* A century of progress in the natural sciences, San Francisco 1955, p. 47.
- Thomas, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 152. 1961.
- Coats, Huntia 2: 192-193. 1965 (portr.)
- James, The trees of Bicton 107. 1969.
- Thomas, Huntia 3: 10-11. 1969.
- Coats, The plant hunters 341-344, 387. 1970.
- McVaugh, Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 9: 226-227. 1972.
#### Eponymy
*Coulteria* Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth (1824). *Note*: *Coulterella* G. Vasey & J. N. Rose (1890) and *Coulterina* O. Kuntze (1891) are dedicated to John Merle Coulter (1851-1928), *q.v.*; *Coulterella* Zebrowski (1937) is dedicated to Moses Stanley Coulter (1853-x), American mycologist.
### Publications
##### n.1255. Mémoire sur les Dipsacées
**Title**
*Mémoire sur les Dipsacées*. Genève, Paris (J.J. Paschoud) 1823. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Mém. Dipsac.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Sep-Dec 1823 (read 4 Sep 1823), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-49, *pl. 1-2*, preprinted from Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Genève 2(2). 1824; 2 plates uncol. copper engr. by Heyland.
*Copies*: G, NY, U.
*Ref*.: BM 1: 395; Kew 1: 631; MW p. 85.