> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 818](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190289) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8462-1) LSID 8462-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5820017) QID Q5820017 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Robson, Edward (1763-1813), British (English) botanist at Darlington; correspondent of W. Withering and J.E. Smith; one of the original fellows of the Linnean Society of London. **Abbreviated name**: *E. Robson* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.Robson*\] #### Herbarium and types Sunderland Museum (inf. P.S. Davis and G.G. Graham). Other material at [[Collection LIV|LIV]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 166; BB p. 259; CSP 5: 243; Desmond p. 526 (b. 17 Oct 1763, d. 21 Mai 1813); DNB 49: 62; Dryander 3: 650; Henrey 2: 135, 136; Hortus 3: 1202; Rehder 2: 246; Zander ed. 10, p. 707, ed. 11, p. 807. #### Biofile - Adamson, R.S., Mem. Proc. lit. philos. Soc. 63: 2. 1920 (friend of John Dalton). - Baker, J.G., Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland 14(1): 78. 1902 (biogr. sketch). - Blackwell, E.M., Naturalist 877: 54. 1961. - Bolton, J., Hist. fung. Halifax 170. 1792. - Bridson, G.D.R., et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.410, 264.8. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 60: 278. 1922 (on his mss. Suppl. Brit. Fl., 1790, at BM(NH). - Davis, P., Newsletter Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8: 8-9. 1980 (mss.; herb. in Sunderland Museum). - Davis, P.S. & G.G Graham, The authorship of "Plantae rariores agro dunelmensi indigenae", Arch. nat. Hist. 10(2): 335-340. 1981 (biogr. info, on Edward and Stephen Robson and authorship of *Plantae* attributed to Edward). #### Eponymy *Robsonia* (Berlandier) H.G.L. Reichenbach (1837). ### Publications ##### n.9306. Plantae rariores agro dunelmensi indigenae **Title** *Plantae rariores agro dunelmensi indigenae* \[s.l.n.d., 1798\]. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1798 (fide P.S. Davis and G.G. Graham in mss.), 3 p. *Copy*: Bodleian Library Oxford (inf. J. Edmondson). Added: 1 p. *Plantae desideratae*. \[Mss. addition: E. Robson. Darlington 1/5 mo 98\].