> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 271](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212313) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10590-1) LSID 10590-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21610612) QID Q21610612 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thomas \[Abraham Louis\] Emmanuel \[Emanuel\] (1788-1859), Swiss plant collector, plant dealer and forester at Bex \[Vaud\]. **Abbreviated name**: *Em. Thomas* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.Thomas*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]] (bought Feb 1893). – Further material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection JE|JE]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LAU|LAU]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]] (destr.), [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection NA|NA]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection W|W]]. – The Bex herbarium was with Thomas's son Jean-Louis at Bex in 1880 (fide Alph. de Candolle, Phytogr. 1880); it was put up for sale in 1887 (BSbF 34 (bibl.): 191-192. 1887). Part of it was bought from Henri Thomas at Bex in Feb 1893 by the Herbier Boissier, now G. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 97, 4: 211, 5(1): 759; Backer p. 662; Barnhart 3: 374; BM 5: 2095; Bossert p. 398; Clokie p. 252; Hegi 5(1): 643, 6(2): 1316; Hortus 3: 1205; Jackson p. 321; PR 9220, ed. 1: 10196; Rehder 1: 426, 5: xxii; Saccardo 1: 162, 2: 106. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 25 (bibl.): 47. 1878 (herb. J.L. Thomas \[with herb. E. Thomas\] for sale). - Attinger, V. et al., eds., Dict. hist. biogr. Suisse 6: 551. 1932. - Burdet, H., Candollea 33: 427-428. 1978 (handwriting; coll.). - Cosandey, F., Rev. hist. Vaudoise 1942(3-4): 81-149. 1942 (reprint at G on the Thomas family and their friends), p. \[1\]-58. - Gay, J., Flora 10(1): 29-30. 1827. - Lebert, H., Act. Soc. helv. Sci. nat. 60: 154-164. 1877 (biogr.). - Meyer, F.G. & S. Elsasser, Taxon 22: 390-391. 1973 (on coll. Thomas family in NA). - Mouillefarine, E., Bull. Soc. bot. France 35: xl-xlviii. 1888 (on the Thomas family at Bex). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gott. 164. 1982. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 165. 1905. #### Handwriting Candollea 33: 427-428. 1978. #### Note Emmanuel Thomas was the son of Abram \[Abraham\] Thomas (1740-1822), grandson of Pierre Thomas (*fl*. 1750) and brother of Louis Thomas (1784-1823) and Philippe Thomas (x-1831), all Swiss botanists. Abram Thomas accompanied A. v. Haller on some of his mountain trips. Jean-Louis Thomas (1834-1886), son of Emmanuel continued his father's botanical activities. #### Name Emmanuel Thomas used both the spelling Emanuel and Emmanuel on the catalogues. #### Eponymy *Thomasia* J. Gay (1821) [^1] honors Pierre Thomas, 18th century amateur Swiss botanist and his son Abram Thomas (1740-1822), Swiss botanist. ### Publications ##### n.14.205. Catalogue des plantes suisses **Title** *Catalogue des plantes suisses* et des coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles qui se vendent chez Emanuel Thomas, à Bex, dans le Canton de Vaud en Suisse. 1818. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. suiss.* **Notes** *1818 ed*.: 1818, p. \[1\]-38. *Copies*: G, PH. *1837 ed*.: 1837, p. \[1\]-49. *Copies*: BR, G(3), HH, NY. – "Catalogue des plantes suisses qui se vendent chez Emmanuel \[sic\] Thomas..." Lausanne (Imprimerie de Marc Ducloux) 1837. Oct. (in fours). Some copies have "Addenda" on p. \[50\] (e.g. BR, G). ##### n.14.206. Catalogue des plantes suisses **Title** *Catalogue des plantes suisses*, qui se vendent chez Emmanuel Thomas,... plantes *cryptogames*. Strasbourg (Imprimerie de Ph.-Al. Daunbach) 1841. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. suiss., crypt.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1841, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-8. *Copies*: BR, G(2), HH, NY. – Determinations of Lichens and Hepatics by K. \[CF.\] Schimper, Mosses by W.P. Schimper. ##### n.14.207. Catalogue des plantes de Sardaigne **Title** *Catalogue des plantes de Sardaigne*, qui se vendent chez Emanuel Thomas a Bex,... 1841. Oct. **Notes** *1841 ed*.: 1841, p. \[1\]-4. *Copies*: G(2). *Supplément*: 1842, p. \[1\]. *Copies*: G(2). *Supplément*: 1853, p. \[1\]. *Copy*: G. [^1]: "*Thomasia* J.Gay 1821 (Malvaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Peter (Pierre) Thomas (1708 –1781) **and** his son Abraham Thomas (1740 –1822/24), Swiss plant collectors for A. v. Haller **and** his grandsons Philippe (?–1831), Louis (1784–1823), and Emmanuel (1788–1859), gardeners, botanists as well (Gay, 1821: 450)." 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)