> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 321](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259825) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2830-1) LSID 2830-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5737064) QID Q5737064 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Forselles, Jacob \[Jakob\] Henrik \[Henric, Hendrik\] af (1785-1855), Finnish-born Swedish geologist and mining engineer, born 27 Dec 1785 in Ruotsinphytää (Strömsfors), matriculated 1801, Court of Appeal (law) degree 1806 and mining degree 1812, all Uppsala Univ., worked in the Sala (Västmanland) silver mines from 1817, died 13 Jun 1855 in Stockholm. **Abbreviated name**: *Forselles* \[standard form in IPNI: *Forselles*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]] (160, *fide* IH 2: 203, but this needs to be reconfirmed), [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunberg Herb.) (plants "in Finlandiae littoribus"). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 206; Baillon 2: 630; Barnhart 1: 558; BM 2: 594; CSP 2: 667; IH 2: 203 (as "Forselles, A.J."); Kew 2: 310; KR p. 192; Saelan p. 111; SMK 2: 558; TL-2/1: 855 (as "Forssell"), 2/6: 896 (index). #### Biofile - Väre, H., 2007. Ann. Bot. Fenn. 44: 223-226. - Wittrock, V.B., 1905. Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 12. #### Eponymy *Forsellesia* Greene (1893); but *Forssellia* Zahlbr. (1906) is dedicated to Karl Bror Jacob Forssell (1856-1898). ### Publications ##### n.35.083. Tvenne **Title** *Tvenne* nya *växter fundne* \[funna?\] i *Sverige* och beskrifne... \[J.F. Edman,... 1807\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1807, p. 1-18, *1 pl*. (unnumb.). *Copy*: K (imperfect). *Reprint*: Forselles' article "Tvenne nya växter fundne \[funna?\] i Sverige och beskrifne ..." was reprinted in 1906 with the entire contents of *Linnéska institutets skrifter*... Uppsala (Almqvist & Wiksells boktr.), iv, 23 p., *2 pl*. Oct. *Copies*: MO (n.v.), NY (n.v.), USDA. *Note*: (1) The Linnéska institutet founded as the Societas pro historia naturali in 1800 was a short-lived society in Uppsala devoted to natural sciences. In 1802, Adam Afzelius (1750-1837) was named president of the society. On the centenary of Linnaeus' birth (1807), the society adopted the name commemorating him and published the first and only fascicle of *Linnéska institutets skrifter*, see TL-2/1: 11-13 and Suppl. 1: 33-35. (2) In the copy examined at K, pages 17-18 and the pl. are replaced by photographs of the text and illus., respectively.