> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 674](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120805) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2290-1) LSID 2290-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669028) QID Q669028 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Douglas, David (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Douglas, David (1798-1834), Scottish botanical explorer of North America and China, who imported many ornamental plants into Europe. **Abbreviated name**: *Douglas* \[standard form in IPNI: *Douglas*\] #### Herbarium and types the first set of Douglas's North American plants is at [[Collection K|K]]. His own herbarium is partly at [[Collection BM|BM]] and partly at [[Collection CGE|CGE]]. For the location of duplicates see IH. W.J. Hooker's Flora boreali-americana is in part based on the Douglas collections. *Ref*.: BB p. 94; IH 2: 167. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 189, 4: 534; Barnhart 1: 467; BB p. 94; BM 1: 474; Bossert p. 106; CSP 2: 327; Frank 3(Anh.): 25; Jackson p. 116, 126; Langman p. 251; Lasègue p. 193-196; ME 1: 179, 3: 566 \[ind.\]; PR under 2380. - Anon., Flora 18: 256. 28 Apr 1835. - Hooker, W. J., Comp. bot. Mag. 1: 17. 1835; 2: 79-182. 1836. (portr., memoir by Hooker, "Sketch" by Douglas). - Bentham, Trans. hort. Soc. ser. 2. 1: 403-414. - G.B., Canadian Naturalist 5: 120-132, 200-208, 267-278, 329-349. 1860. - Blankinship, Montana Agr. Coll. Sci. Stud. 1(1): 5, 18-19. 1905. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 77-78. 1905. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 39. 1906. - Dow, Trans. Proc. Perthshire Soc. nat. Sci 5(2): 55-65. 1914. - Hemsley, Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 57: 75. 1915 (portr.) - Wilson, David Douglas, botanist at Hawaii. Honolulu 1919, 83 p. (portr.) - Valckenier Suringar, Jaarb. Ned. dendrol. Ver. 2: 69-97. 1926 (portr.) - Guthrie, Sci. Monthly 23: 81-86. 1927 (portr.) - Palmer, The Condor 30: 276-277. 1928. - Jepson, Madroño 2: 97-100. 1933 (Douglas in Calif.) - Constance, Leaflets western Bot. 2: 21-22. 1937. - Eastwood, Quart. Calif. hist. Soc. 18(4): 339-341. 1939. - Harris, Condor 43: 19-21. 1941. - Balfour, J. R. Hort. Soc. 67: 121-128, 153-162. 1942. - Howell, Leaflets western Bot. 3: 160-162. 1942. - Harvey, Douglas of the fir, Cambridge, Mass. 1947, x, 190 p. - Ewan, Rocky Mountain naturalists, 197. 1950. - Geiser, Naturalists of the frontier 273. 1948. - Little, Phytologia 2: 485-490. 1948. - Hadfield, Pioneers in gardening 120-131, 177. 1951. - Hansell, Garden J. New York Bot. Gard. 2(1): 6-9. 1952 (portr.) - Ewan, *in* A century of progress in the natural sciences 47. 1955. - Evans, J. Soc. architectural Historians 15(1): 20-26. 1956 (Douglas at Soledad). - Stoutenburg and Baker, Wild treasure, the story of David Douglas. New York 1958, viii, 216p. - Thomas, Contr. Dudley Herb. 5: 152-153. 1961. - Young and Young, Plant detective David Douglas, New York 1966. - Beidelman, Horticulture, Boston, 47(2): 30-31, 49. 1969 (portr.) - Coats, The plant hunters 304-314, 387. 1969. - Ewan, A short history of botany in the U.S. 7, 38, 132, 143. 1969. - James, The trees of Bicton 107-108. 1969. - Thomas, Huntia 9: 9-10. 1969 (portr.) (prepr.) - Aitken, J. Scott. Rock Garden Club 12(2): 147-152. 1970. - Degener and Degener, Phytologia 22(2): 83-84. 1971. - Morwood, Traveler in a vanished landscape. New York 1973, 244 p. (portr.) (rev. see Ewan Plant Sci. Bull. 20(1): 19. 1974). #### Eponymy *Douglasia* J. Lindley (1827, *nom. cons.*). *Note*: *Douglassia* \[sic\] P. Miller (1754, *nom. rej.*) and *Douglassia* \[sic\] Schreber (1791) are dedicated to James Douglas (1675-1742), english physician. #### Handwriting Frontispiece to his *Journal* (1914), *portrait*: idem. ### Publications ##### n.1506. Journal kept by David Douglas **Title** *Journal kept by David Douglas* during his travels in North America 1823-1827. Together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American oaks and eighteen species of Pinus. With appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. Published under the direction of the Royal Horticultural Society. London (William Wesley & Son) 1914. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Journal*. **Notes** *Orig. ed*.: 1914 (p.v.: 18 Aug 1914) (750 copies), p. \[i-vii\], front., \[1\].364. – *Copy*: Ewan. – includes a Memoir of David Douglas by W. Wilks. For a critical evaluation of this publication, see W. B. H(emsley), Gard. Chron. 57: 75. 1915. *Facsimile ed*.: New York (Antiquarian Press Ltd.) 1959. *Copy*: FAS. *Ref*.: BM 6: 277.