> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 722](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120853) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2463-1) LSID 2463-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3102663) QID Q3102663 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham (1812-1881), British civil servant in Bengal, botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Edgew.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Edgew.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]. – Further material from India and Aden in [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 177. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 162. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 495; BB p. 100; BM 2: 505; Bossert p. 112; CSP 2: 444; 7: 594; DNB 16: 382; Jackson p. 92, 384, 387; PR 2617. - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 7: 383-384. 1881 (bibl.), J. Bot. 19: 288. 1881. - Anon., Bot. Not. 1882: 29. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1880/2: 63. 1883. - Blatter, Rec. bot. Surv. India 7: 5-6. 1914. - Burkill, Chapt. hist. bot. India 238 \[index\]. 1965. #### Composite works Hooker, *Fl. Brit. India*: (a) *Frankeniaceae* 1: 211-212. Jan 1874. (b) *Caryophyllaceae* 1: 212-246. Jan 1874. (c) *Zygophyllaceae* 1: 422-425. Jan 1874. (d) *Geraniaceae* 1: 426-464. Jan 1874, 1: 465-483. Feb 1875 (with J. D. Hooker). #### Eponymy *Edgeworthia* C. F. Meisner (1841) [^1]. ### Publications ##### n.1622. Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district 1847-49 **Title** *Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district 1847-49*. \[Mooltan 1851\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Catal.pl. Banda*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 7 Oct 1851 (p. 60), p. \[1\]-60, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Preprint \[?\] from J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 21: 24-48, 151-184. 1852 (Calcutta 1852). *Ref*.: BM 2: 505; Jackson p. 389; PR 2617. [^1]: "*Edgeworthia* Meisn. 1841 (Thymelaeaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881), Irish-born (from his father’s 4th marriage) British civil servant in Bengal, botanist **and** his half-sister (from their father’s 1st marriage) Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), prolific Anglo-Irish writer, amateur and patroness of science (Meisner, 1841: 242). *Note*. – *Edgeworthia* Falc. 1842 (Sapotaceae) is only for Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881) (Falconer, 1845: 158)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)