> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 289](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259335) of TL-2 Suppl. V > 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|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Dickson, James (1738-1822), Scottish nurseryman, born at Traquhair, Peebles, 1778, died at Croydon, Surrey 14 Aug 1822, established herb and seed shop, Covent Garden, London, one of the founders of the Horticultural Society of London and the Linnean Society, as gardener became a friend of J. Banks. **Abbreviated name**: *Dicks.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Dicks.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (orig.) and [[Collection LINN|LINN]], further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection HAL|HAL]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]]([[Collection FH|FH]]), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]] (ex herb. Lambert), [[Collection TCD|TCD]] (lich.), [[Collection UOS|UOS]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]] (lich.). #### 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. 37 (letters in Smith papers, 265, 266); Desmond p. 185 (used for our caption); DNB 15: 44; Dryander 3: 218, 219-220, 340; Frank 3(Anh.): 24; GR p. 371; GR cat. p. 62; Henrey 3: 33-34; Herder p. 630, 633; IF p. 693; IH 2: 161; LS 7062-7064; ME 2: 540, 542; NI nos. 477, 478; PR 2224, ed. 1: 2560; SBC p. 119; TL-1: 106, TL-2/1: 644-645, and see indexes; Urban-Berl. p. 340; Zander ed. 10, p. 652, ed. 11, p. 741. #### Collections of specimen in sets (a) A *collection* of *dried plants*, etc., a fasc., vol 1, 100 folios of mounted specimens. Fol. London, 1789-1791. – at BM 1: 451. (b) *Hortus siccus Britannicus*, etc., 19 fasc. mounted and named specimens. Fol. London 1793-1802. – at BM 1: 451. #### Biofile - Anon., Gent. Mag. 1822(ii): 376-377; Trans. Hort. Soc. London 5(Appendix 1-3). 1824; Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888-1889: 35. 1891; Gard. Chron. 1904(1): 147, 1964(2): 229 (portr.); J.R. Hort. Soc. 1943: 66-72 (portr.); Huntia 1965: 196-197; Monthly notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 1968: 6-7. ("What the label doesn't tell"); Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19: 14-16. 1969; Fiddlehead Forum 4(3): 4. 1977. - Baillon, H.E., Dict. bot. 2: 404. 1884. - Baines, J.E., Victorian Nat. 90: 170. 1973 (on name "Dicksonia"). - Boulger, G.S., *in* C.E. Salmon, Fl. Surrey 49. 1931. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. nos. 84.6, 229.461, 334.70 (see p. 397). 1980. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 408. 1880. - Carr, D.J. and S.G.M. Carr (eds.), People and plants in Australia 142, 146, 164. 1981. - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820: 631 (index). 1988. - Coats, A.M., Huntia 2: 196. 1965 (picture of D.). - Druce, G.C., James Dickson's list of Naseby Plants, J. Northamptonshire Nat. Hist. Soc. Field Club 19: 116-117. Dec 1917; Fl. Northamptonshire lxxxvi. 1930. - Ewan, J. *in* F. Pursh, Fl. Amer. sept. facs. repr. 1979, p. 15 (material at OXF). - Fletcher, H.R., Story Roy. Hort. Soc. 1804-1968: 33-34, 535. 1969 (portr.). - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nutall 84, 88, 90-91, 464. 1967. - Hadfield, M., Pioneers in gardening 109-110. 1951. - Hawksworth, D.L. and M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 1568-1975: 9, 10, 11, 73, 198, 211. 1977. - Haworth, A.H., Miscellanae Naturalia 4. 1803 (as "Dixon" sic). - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 102. 1972. - Karttunen, K., Taxon 37(1): 156-157. 1988 (on D.'s Index to "Plantarum..." moss names). - Kent, D.H., Brit. Herb. 51. 1957. - Laundon, J.R., Lichenologist 11(1): 8. 1979. - Long, D.G., J. Bryol. 10: 241-244. 1979 (Hepat. types (13) D. at E). - Mabberley, D.J., Jupiter Botanicus 478(index). 1985. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 122: 170. 1978 (Muhlenb. herb.), 133: 149. 1981 (D. material also at PH). - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 5230. 1970. - Murray, G., Hist. Coll. BMNH 1: 144. 1904 (on his "Hortus siccus Britannicus" 1789-93, collection of bryophytes, at BM purchased from his daughter in 1878). - O'Brian, P., Joseph Banks 266. 1987. - Parnell, J.A.N., Lichenologist 14: 281. 1982 (lichens at TCD). - Pearsall, W.H., Fl. Surrey 49. 1931. - Sayre, G., Taxon 6: 10-11. 1957; Bryologist 80(3): 507. 1977 (bryol. at BM). - Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 32. 1966 (hepat. in Fasc. pl. cryptogam. Brit.). - Smith, P., Corr. Sir. J.E. Smith 2: 234. 1832. - Stafleu, F.A., *in* L'Herbier de Brutell, Sertum anglicum xxviii. 1963. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 78. 1981. - Trimen, H. and W.T. Thistleton-Dyer, Fl. Middlesex 397. 1869. ### Publications ##### n.30.312. Fasciculus **Title** *Fasciculus* \[*secundus*, etc.\] *plantarum cryptogamicarum britanniae*. London (author; G. Nicol) 1785-1801. 4 fasc. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fasc. pl. crypt. brit.* **Notes** *Publ*.: For treatment of original publications (quarto and octavo edition) see TL-2/1442. *Facsimile ed*.: 1976 (The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd.), with new introduction by D.L. Hawskworth (... \[1-4\]). *Further reference*: see p. \[4\] of facsimile ed. ##### n.30.313. plants newly discovered **Title** An account of some *plants newly discovered* in *Scotland*... \[London\] (Transactions of the Linnean Society) 1793. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1793, p. 286-291. *Copy*: MO. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. 2: 286-291. 1793.