> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 598](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120729) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1998-1) LSID 1998-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007604) QID Q8007604 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Darlington, William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Darlington, William (1782-1863), American physician, botanist and antiquarian at West Chester nr. Philadelphia. **Abbreviated name**: *Darl.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Darl.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DWC|DWC]], other material at [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection P|P]]-DU, [[Collection PH|PH]]. – Manuscripts and correspondence at [[Collection DWC|DWC]] and at the New York Historical Society, letters to Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]; library at [[Collection DWC|DWC]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 152. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. (Torrey corr.) 451-452. 1973. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 419; BM 1: 421, 6: 252; Bossert p. 93; CSP 2: 152, 6: 632, 12: 184; Jackson p. 537 \[ind.\]; LS 6647-6648; ME 1: 177, 3: 561; PR 2048-2054. - Gray, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 36: 132-139. 1863 (Flora 56: 511. 24 Nov. 1863). - James, Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. g: 330-343. 1863/4. - Harshberger, Bot. Philadelphia 9, 134-143, 168, 443. 1899 (portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 193. 1905. - Kelly, Some American medical botanists 113-117. 1914. - Tucker, Cat. Arnold Arb. 2: 9. 1917. - Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 282-284. 1920. - Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 291-292. 1921 (corr. Schweinitz-Torrey). - Sharpless, Bartonia 14: 1-13. 1932. - Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 184 \[index\]. 1940. - Rodgers, John Torrey 339. 1942. - Humphrey, Makers North American Botany 67. 1961. - Lansing, The Dr. Wm. Darlington Commemorative program addresses. Chester County Medical Society, West Chester, Pa. 1965, 28 p. (portr.) - Ewan, Introduction to facs. ed. Memorials John Bartram v-vii. 1967. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 464. 1967. - Ewan, Short hist. bot. US 33, 38, 40. 1969. - Ewan, DSB 3: 562-563. 1971 (bibl.) - Lansing, Sertum cestricum 1: i-ii, 1-38. 1972, 3: i-ii, 33-39. 1972 \[nos. repr. from The medical reporter, Oct.1854, catalogue of medicinal plants indigenous to Chester County, Pa., by Darlington\] (portr.) #### Eponymy *Darlingtonia* A. P. de Candolle (1825, *nom. rej.*), *Darlingtonia* J. Torrey (1851); *Darlingtonia* J. Torrey (1853, *nom. cons.*) ### Publications ##### n.1310. Florula cestrica **Title** *Florula cestrica*: an essay towards a catalogue of the phaenogamous plants, native and naturalized, growing in the vicinity of the Borough of West-Chester, in Chester County, Pennsylvania: with brief notices of their properties, and uses, in medecine, rural economy, and the arts. To which is subjoined an appendix of the useful cultivated plants of the same district. By William Darlington, M. D. Ore trahit quodcumque potest, atque addit a cervo. Hor. West-Chester, Penn. (for the author, by Simeon Siegfried) 1826. Oct. (in fours) **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. cestr.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Mai-Dec 1826 (p. \[iii\]: 28 Apr 1826), p. \[i\]-xv, 1-152, *pl. 1-3*, hand-col. copper engr. by H. Fennell. *Copies*: HH, USDA (rev. Amer. J. Sci. 12(1):177-179. Mar 1827). *Ed. 2*: Apr-Jul 1837 (p. vii: Apr 1837; Linn. Soc. 17 Aug 1837), frontisp. map, \[i\]-xxiii, \[1\]-640, duodecimo (in sixes). *Copies*: US (2 copies), E. G. Voss. Title: *Flora cestrica*: an attempt to enumerate and describe the flowering and filicoid plants of Chester County, in the state of Pennsylvania. With brief notices, and uses, in medecine, domestic and rural economy, and the arts. West-Chester, Penn. (for the author, by S. Siegfried, for saleby Kimber and Sharpless, Philadelphia). *Ed.3*: Jan-Jun 1853 (Amer. J. Sci. 66:129-130. Jul 1853), frontisp. portr., p. \[i\]-c, map, \[1\]-498. *Copies*: HH, US (2 copies of which one with portr.) Title: *Flora cestrica*: an herborizing companyon for the young botanists of Chester County, state of Pennsylvania... Third edition: the previous omissions, as far as known, supplied; the descriptive details revised and condensed, and the whole arranged according to the Natural systems, as illustrated by De Candolle, Hooker, and Gray. Philadelphia (Lindsay & Blakiston) 1853. Mosses and hepatics by T. P. James; thallophyta by E. Michener. *Ref*.: BM 1: 421; LS 6647-6648; ME 3: 395-396; PR 2048; IDC 7529 (ed. 2). - Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 12: 310-311. 5 Mai 1854 (rev. ed. 3). ##### n.1311. Reliquiae baldwinianae **Title** *Reliquiae baldwinianae*: selections from the correspondence of the late William Baldwin, M. D.... with occasional notes, and a short biographical memoir. Philadelphia (Kimber and Sharpless) 1843. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Reliq. baldw.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jul-Aug 1843 (donated to library PH on 8 Aug 1843; rev. by Gray, Dec. 1843), portrait of Baldwin, p. \[1\]-346, \[1, err.\] – Important source for the history of early nineteenth century American botany.The *facsimile* edition(see below)has an extensive introduction by J. Ewan and indexes to personal and scientific names. *Facsimile ed*.: New York and London(Hafner)1969, Classica botanica americana, suppl. 2, p. \[ii\*-iv\*\], i-lxix, portr., \[1\]-346, \[1, err.\] *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: BM 1: 421; ME 3: 437; PR 2051. - Gray, Amer. J. Sci. 46: 192-195. Dec 1843. - Lauener, Notes R.B.G. Edinburgh 29(3): 405. 1969. ##### n.1312. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall **Title** *Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall*. With notices of their botanical contemporaries.Philadelphia(Lindsay & Blakiston)1849.Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mem. Bartram & Marshall*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 12 Oct 1849 (date of presentation copy to Asa Gray), frontisp., p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-xv, \[17\]-585. – Important source for the history of North American botany in the first half of the 19th century. The *facsimile* edition (see below) has an extensive introduction by J. Ewan with indexes to personal and scientific names. See also Ewan (1957). *Facsimile ed*.: New York and London (Hafner) 1967. Oct. Classica botanica americana, suppl. 1, p. \[ii\]-lii followed by facs. as above. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: BM 1: 421, ME 3: 454, PR 2054. - Anon., N. Amer. Rev. 70: 210-225. Jan 1850. - Gray, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 9: 85-105. Jan 1850. - Hooker, Kew J. Bot. 2: 62-64. Feb(?) 1850. - Ewan, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 3(5): 263-272. 1957. - Stafleu, Taxon 17: 76-78. 1968.