> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 644](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120775) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/18022-1) LSID 18022-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521759) QID Q521759 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Dickson, James (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Dickson, James (1738-1822), British nurseryman. **Abbreviated name**: *Dickson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Dicks.*\] #### Herbarium and types Mosses at [[Collection BM|BM]] (incl. also his series of exsiccatae); herbarium presented to [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. Further material [[Collection B|B]](Willd.), [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. He published the following exsiccatae: *A collection of dried plants* 1789-1791, 4 fasc., 100 nos. (set 1 received by Gentleman's Mag. Sep 1789), and *Hortus siccus britannicus* 1793-1802, 19 fasc. (details see Sayre 1969). *Ref*.: GR p. 371; Henrey 630, 633; IH 2: 161; Hist. coll. BMNH 144. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(1): 14-16. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 205; Barnhart 1: 452; BB p. 90-91; BM 1: 451; Bossert p. 102; CSP 2: 285; Dawson p. 265-266; DNB 15: 44; Frank 3(Anh.): 24; GR p. 371; Henrey 631-633; IF p. 693; LS 7062-7064; NI 477-478; PR 2224. - Anon., Trans. Hort. Soc. 5, app. 1: 1-3. 1824. - Smith, Correspondence 2: 234. 1832. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888/90: 35. 1891. - Druce, J. Northhamptonshire Nat. Hist. Soc. Field Club 19: 116-117. 1917. - Druce, Fl. Northamptonshire lxxxvi. 1930. - Simmonds, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 68: 66-72. 1943. - Hadfield, Pioneers in gardering 109-110. 1951. - Coats, Huntia 2: 195-196. 1965 (portr.) - Anon., Monthly Notes Roy. Bot. Garden Edinburgh Aug 1968: 6-7. #### Eponymy *Dicksonia* L'Héritier de Brutelle (1789). ### Publications ##### n.1442. Fasciculus **Title** *Fasciculus* \[*secundus*, etc.\] *plantarum cryptogamicarum britanniae*. London (author; G. Nicol) 1785-1801, 4 fasc. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fasc. pl. crypt. brit.* **Notes** |fasc. |pages |*plates* |dates |copies| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[i-iv\], \[1\]-26, \[2\] |1-3 |Mai 1785 |MO, PCS, Steere, Stevenson| |2 |\[i-iii\], \[1\]-31 |4-6 |Jan-Sep 1790 |MO, PCS, Steere, Stevenson| |3 |\[i-ii\], \[1\]-24 |7-9 |Sep 1793 |MO, Steere, Stevenson| |4 |\[i-ii\], \[1\]-28, \[4, ind.\] |10-12 |4 Oct 1801 |Steere| *Octavo edition*, "London (id.) 1785-1790," publ. by Roemer et Usteri, Zürich. |fasc. |pages |*plates* |dates |copies| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[i-iv\], \[1\]-28 |1-3 |1785 |MO| |2 |\[i-iv\], \[1\]-31 |4-6 |1790 |MO| Part 1 also in Magas. f.d. Botanik 2: 40-68. *Lisbon edition*: Jacobi Dickson fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae lusitanorum botanicorum in usum, celsissimi ac potentissimi Lusitaniae principis regentis domini nostri, et jussu, et auspiciis denuo typis mandatus, curante Fr. Josepho Muriano Veloso. Lisboa. (Typographia Domus chalcographicae) 1800. Qu. |fasc. |pages |*plates* |copies| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[i-iii\], \[1\]-32 |1, 2, 3a, 3b |Steere, Stevenson| |2 |33-64 |4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b |Steere, Stevenson| |3 |65-94 |7a, 7b, 7, 8b, 8c, 9a, 9b, 9c |Steere, Stevenson| *Illustrations*: copper engravings of drawings by James Sowerby, originals of plates *4-12* at BM. Lisbon edition plates copied by Marques. *Ref*.: BM 1: 451; Dryander 3: 219-220; Henrey 631, 632; Jackson p. 239; LS 7062; NI 477; PR 2224; SY p. 9; IDC 1257. - Proskauer, Bryologist 58: 76-77. 1955. - Greene, J. Soc. Bibliogr. nat. Hist. 3: 230. 1957. - Sweet, Ann. of Sci. 19: 96. 1963 (fasc. 3).