> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 203](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066543) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11578-1) LSID 11578-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12315588) QID Q12315588 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author West, Hans (1758-1811), Danish botanist, art collector, philologist and administrator; studied modern languages at Odense; headmaster at Christiansted on St. Croix 1788-1800, later public notary; consul in the Netherlands 1802-1805; collected on St. Croix, St. Thomas, Vieques (Crab Island), Puertorico and Martinique. **Abbreviated name**: *H. West* \[standard form in IPNI: *H.West*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]] (sent to M. Vahl). – Further material at [[Collection B|B]] (partly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC (p.p. orig.), [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection S|S]]. – The major part of the original collection is at [[Collection C|C]]; however, a number of specimens (types?) is at [[Collection G|G]] through M.N. Puerari (now in [[Collection G|G]]-DC). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 479; BM 5: 2296; Dawson p. 865; Hortus 3: 1207; PR 10198, ed. 1: 11178; Rehder 1: 335; TL-1/1407; Tucker 1: 741; Zander ed. 10, p. 732, ed. 11, p. 835. #### Biofile - Anon., Cat. gen. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 221: 834-835. 1974. - Brünniche, E.H., Dansk biogr. leks. 25: 383-384. 1943 (emphasis on art collecting; b. 6 Jul 1758, d. 6 Jul 1811; further biogr. refs.). - Christensen, C., Dansk. Bot. Hist. 2: 117. 1924 (bibl.). - Horneman, J.W., Nat. Tidskr. 1: 579. 1837. - Kiaerskou, H., Bot. Tidsskr. 23: 45-46. 1900. - Millspaugh, C.F., Publ. Field Columb. Mus. 68. Bot. 1: 450-451. 1902. - Rydberg, P.A., August. Coll. libr. Publ. 5: 19. 1907. - Urban, I., Symb. Ant. 21: 173, 174-176. 1898, 3: 140. 1902. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 82. 1880. #### Eponymy *Westia* M. Vahl (1810). ### Publications ##### n.17.221. Bidrag til Beskrivelse over Ste Croix **Title** *Bidrag til Beskrivelse over Ste Croix* med en kort Udsigst over St. Thomas, St. Jean, Tortola, Spanishtown og Crabeneiland... Kiöbenhavn (tryckt hos Friderik Wilhelm Thiele) 1793. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bidr. Beskr. Ste Croix*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1793 (p. v: 25 Apr 1793), p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-363, \[364, err.\], 2 charts. *copies*: B-S, HH, NSUB; IDG 5807. – Flora treated on p. 259-336 (tearsheet copy p. \[i, handwritten t.p.\], p. 259-336 at G is M.N. Puerari's copy, with annotations). See Urban (1898): 174-176 for details on the standing of names by West and names to be attributed to Vahl; the publication of a number of new taxa precedes publication by M. Vahl in the *Symbolae* part 3. See also M. Vahl, *Eclogae*, preface (1797). – H. Eggers *Fl. St. Croix *(1879, TL-2/1631) made an attempt to elucidate and name dubious \[fide Urban\] species described by West. *German transl*.: 1794, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-274. *copies*: HH, LG, NSUB, NY. – *Beyträge zur Beschreibung von St. Croix.* Nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der benachbarten Inseln, St. Thomas, St. Jean, Tortola, Spanishtown and Krabbeneyland... aus dem Dänischen mit Verbesserungen und Vermehrungen des Verfassers \[sic\]. Kopenhagen (bey C.G. Prost,...) 1794. Oct. – List of plants on p. 194-242.