> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1005](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121136) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3387-1) LSID 3387-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11705310) QID Q11705310 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Griffith, William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Griffith, William (1810-1845), British colonial physician and botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Griff.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Griff.*\] #### Herbarium and types Griffith contributed greatly to the herbarium of the East India Company. His herbarium was originally given to [[Collection LINN|LINN]] (Bot. Zeit. 8: 632), but later transferred to Kew ([[Collection K|K]]); for duplicates (important sets at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]]) see IH and Lamond 1970. Manuscripts and journals also at [[Collection K|K]]. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 359, 2: 240. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 300, 351. 1916. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 201-202. 1950 (many details). - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 174. 1964. - Lamond, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 159-175. 1970 (especially for Afghanistan collections). - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 86. 1907. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 386; Barnhart 2: 86; BB p. 131-132; BM 2: 735-736; Bossert p. 153; Bretschneider 1: 359-360; CSP 3: 18-19, 12: 293; DNB 23: 240; IF p. 700; Jackson p. 553 \[index\]; MW p. 143; PR 3565-3571, ed. 1: 3883: 3887; Zander ed. 10, p. 665. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 239-244. 1845. - Anon., Flora 28: 431-432. 1845. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 3: 392. 1845. 4: 159-160. 1846. - Hooker, London J. Bot. 4: 371-375. 1845, 7: 446-449. 1848. - Milner, Cat. portraits Kew 55. 1906. - Oliver, Makers of Brit. Bot. 178-191. 1913 (portr.) - Huxley, Life letters Hooker 2: 537 \[index\]. 1918. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 201-202. 1950 (much sec. lit.) - Burkill, Chapt. hist. bot. India 37-74, 239. 1965. - Coats, The plant hunters 153-154, 388. 1969. - Hirsch-Kirchanski and Kirchanski, DSB 5: 539-540. 1972 (bibl.) - Stafleu, *in* Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 22: 424. 1973 (portr.) #### Eponymy *Griffithia* Maingay ex G. King (1893); *Griffithia* R. Wight & Arnott (1834); *Griffithianthus* Merrill (1915). ### Publications ##### n.2166. Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan **Title** *Journals of travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan* and the neighbouring countries... arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta (Bishop's College Press) 1847. Oct. (in fours) **Abbreviated title**: *J. trav.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1847, p. \[i\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-529, *pl. 1-18. Copies*: NY, U. -Volume \[one\] of a set of "Posthumous papers bequeathed to the honorable East India Company"; for vol. 2. see *Itinerary notes* (1848); for vols. \[3-6\] see *Notulae* (1847-1854). *Ref*.: BM 2: 736. ##### n.2167. Notulae ad plantas asiaticas **Title** *Notulae ad plantas asiaticas*. \[title preceded by:\] Posthumous papers bequeathed to the Honorable The East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal... Arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta (1: Bishop's College Press; 2-4: C. A. Serrao) 1847-1854, 4 vols. Oct. (in fours) **Abbreviated title**: *Not. pl. asiat.* **Notes** *1*: p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-255, \[1\]. 1847. *2*: p. \[1\], \[257\]-628, \[i\]-vii, \[viii, err.\]. 1849. *3*: p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-436, \[i\]-xii. 1851. *4*: p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xli, \[1\]-764. 1854. *Copies*: MO, NY, U. *Ref*.: BM 2: 736; IF p. 700; Jackson p. 378; PR 3569; IDC 5269. ##### n.2168. Itinerary notes of plants collected in the Khasyah and Bootan mountains **Title** *Itinerary notes of plants collected in the Khasyah and Bootan mountains*, 1837-38, in Affghanistan and neighbouring countries. 1839-41.... Arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta 1848. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Itin. pl. Khasyah mts.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1848, map, p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-lxiii, \[lxiv, note\], \[1\]-435, *pl. 1-3. Copies*: NY, U. – Volume 2 of a set of volumes with the title "*Posthumous papers*... " *Ref*.: BM 2: 736; PR 3570; IDC 7412. ##### n.2169. Icones plantarum asiaticarum **Title** *Icones plantarum asiaticarum*. \[title preceded by:\] Posthumous papers bequeathed to The Honorable The East India Company, and printed by order of the government of Bengal... Arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta 1847-1854, 4 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Ic. pl. asiat.* **Notes** |vol. |pages |*plates* |date| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |\[i\], \[i\]-iii |1-62 |1847| |2 |\[i\], \[v\]-viii |63-138, 69a-f, 75a-f, 118a \[118a not in Utr. copy\] |1849| |3 |\[i\], \[i\]-v |139-174, 243-359, 161a-d, 272a, 283a, 313a, 338a, 339a, 351a, 351b |1851| |4 |\[i\], \[i\]-xii |360-661, 386a, 410a, 414\[a\], 419a, 514\[a\], 517\[a\], 521\[a\], 585a, 634a, 644a |1854| In all 620 lithographs, of which 223 coloured; the numbers 265, 395, 511 and 524 are wanting \[collation Utrecht copy\]. *Ref*.: BM 2: 735; NI 759; PR 3568; IDC 94; IF p. 700; Jackson p. 378. ##### n.2170. Palms of British East India **Title** *Palms of British East India* by the late William Griffith... arranged by John M'Clelland. \[title preceded by:\] Posthumous papers bequeathed to the Honourable The East India Company, and printed by order of the government of Bengal. Calcutta 1850. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Palms Brit. E. Ind.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1850, after 3 Sep 1850 (preface p. iv) – p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-182, \[xvii\]-xxviii, *pl*. clxxv-ccxlii. B. \[specification of plate numbers: clxxv, clxxvi. A, -B, -C, clxxvii, clxxviii. A, -B, -C, clxxix, clxxx. A, -B, -C, clxxxi-clxxxiv, clxxxiv. A, clxxxv. A, -B, -C, clxxxvi, clxxxvi-A, clxxxvii, clxxxviii. A, -B, -C, clxxxix. A, -B, -cxc A, B, cxci, cxcii, cxciii. A, -B, -C, cxciv. C \[A, B absent in Utrecht copy\], cxcv. A, -B, cxcvi-cxcviii, cxcix. A, cxcix, cc-A, -B, -C, cci. A, -B, ccii-B \[cii A absent in Utrecht copy\], cciii. A, -B, cciv A, -B, -C, ccv. A, -B, ccvi-ccviii, \[ccix absent\], ccx. A, -B, -C, ccxi A, -B, ccxii, ccxiii A, -B, -C, ccxiv. A, -B, -C, ccxv. A, -B, -C, -D, ccxvi, -B, -C, ccxvii. B, -C. \[no A\], ccxvii A, \[-B, -C, not in Utrecht copy\], ccxviii-ccxx, ccxx A, -B, -C, -D, -E, -F, ccxxi A, -B, -C, ccxxii, ccxxii-A, -B, ccxxiii, ccxxiv A, -B, ccxxv, ccxxvi. A, -B, -C, -D, ccxxvii. A, ccxvii. B, ccxxviii, ccxxviii. A, ccxxix. A, -B, ccxxx. A, -B, -C, ccxxxi, ccxxxii A, -B, -C; ccxxxiii, ccxxxiii B, -C, ccxxxiv, ccxxxv. A, -B, -C, -D, -E, ccxxxvi A, -B, -C, ccxxxvii, ccxxxvii. A, -B, -C, ccxxxviii. A, -B, ccxxxix. AB, \[ccxl absent\], ccxli, ccxiii A, ccxiii B\]. *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: NI 760; PR 3571. - Griffith, Calcutta J. nat. Hist. 5: 1-183, 311-355, 445-491. 1845.