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### Author
Nelson, David (x-1789), British gardener, collector and explorer on the voyage of the "Resolution" and the "Discovery" 1776-1780 (Capt. Cook's third voyage); from 1780-1787 gardener at Kew; on the "Bounty" 1787-1789; escaped with Bligh from the mutiny but died on Timor.
**Abbreviated name**: *D. Nels.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Nelson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]]. – Some Hawaiian material also at [[Collection MO|MO]]; further material at [[Collection E|E]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 391; Barnhart 2: 544; BB p. 227; Bret. p. 152; Dawson p. 450, 526, 632, 799, 825, 870, 885; Desmond p. 461; IH 2: (in press); SK 1: 382-383 (itin.), 5: cccvii, 8: lxviii; TL-2/see J. Cook.
- Anderson, A. W., The coming of the flowers 143-149. 1950.
- Anon., Gard. Chron. 1881(2): 267.
- Bailey, F. P., Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 8(2): 18. 1891.
- Beaglehole, J. E., ed., The journal of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery. 3(1-2), Voyage Resolution and Discovery, University Press, Cambridge, 1967, p. 1616 index.
- Blake, S. T., Austral. J. Bot. 1: 188. 1953 (*Eucalyptus*L'Hér. based on Nelson specimen).
- Britten, J., J. Bot. 54: 351-352. 1916. (plants coll. by N. at BM); J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45: 48. 1920. (on *Erica sexfaria*Dryander).
- Brown, R., Prodr. 480-481. 1810.
- Ewan, J., *in*F. Pursh, Kl. Amer. Sept. facs. ed. 1979, intr. p. 22-23.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 4. 1969.
- Gilmour, J. S. L. et al., *in*facsimile reprint L'Héritier, C. L., Sert. angl. lxxx, lxxxvii (see also p. 18, 30). 1963.
- Glenn, R., The botanical explorers of New Zealand 175. 1950.
- Hall, N., Bot. Eucalypts 101. 1978.
- Hedge, J. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 114. 1970 (pl. third voyage Cook at E).
- Hooker, J. D., Fl. Tasman. 113. 1843.
- Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 290, 296. (Alaska).
- Lee, I. (Mrs. C. B. Marriott), Early explorers in Australia 76-77. 1925.
- Lemmon, K., Golden age plant hunters 79-106. 1968.
- L'Héritier, C. L., Sert. angl. 18. 1789 (Establishes genus *Eucalyptus*on a Nelson specimen).
- Maiden, J. H., Sir Joseph Banks 52, 124, 125. 1909; Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 1909: 23-24, J. Proc. R. Soc. N. S. W. 55: 165. 1921.
- McCaughey, V., Haw. For. Agr. 15: 390, 392, 394. 1918.
- Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(MH) 1: 170. 1904 (pl. BM).
- Norton, J., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 25: 767. 1901.
- Smith, A. C., Fl. vitiens. nova 1: 36. 1979 (d. 20 Jun 1789).
- Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 126, 129, 130, 132, 134. 1911.
- Stafleu, F. A., Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 232. 1971.
- Stearn, W. T., Early bot. expl. Australia 12. 1960.
- St. John, H., Pacific Science 30(1): 1-44, 1976 (p. 1-5, account of N's botanizing in Hawaii; on p. 7-44 new species of Hawaiian plants collected by N. in 1779).
- Thistleton Dyer, W. T., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 297.
- Whitley, G. P., J. Proc. R. Austral. hist. Soc. 19: 296. 1934.
- Wilson, E. H., Plant hunting 142, 181, 183, 184, 204. 1927.
#### Eponymy
*Nelsonia* R. Brown (1810).