> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 52](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068294) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3654-1) LSID 3654-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2543258) QID Q2543258 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hardwicke, Thomas (1757-1833), British zoologist and botanist; soldier in the Bengal Artillery (1778); major-general in the Indian army (retired 1823); collected in India, Mauritius, South Africa and St. Helena. **Abbreviated name**: *Hardw.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Hardw.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection K|K]]; other material at [[Collection G|G]]. – [[Collection BM|BM]] also has 22 water-colour drawings of Indian plants and a volume of *Sketches of plants growing about Pletterburg Bay on the coast of Africa*, Cape Town 1812 (see BM 2: 786; NI 790).– Hardwicke employed British and Indian artists to make drawings of natural history items. – Letters at [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 254; Barnhart 2: 126; BB p. 138-139; BM 2: 785-786; CSP 3: 175-176; Dawson p. 140, 395, 851; Desmond p. 286; Hortus 3: 1194 ("Hardw."); IH 2: 255; Lasègue p. 128, 138, 191, 302, 504; NI 798; Rehder 5: 365; Tucker 1: 317; Zander ed. 10, p. 667. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 44: 235-241. 1906 (H's botanical drawings). - Burkill, I. H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 27, 29, 77, 232. 1965. - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 51-52. 1934 (calendar of letters to J. E. Smith); J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. 2: 55-69. 1946. - Hardwicke, Th., Asiat. Res. 6: 309-381. 1799 (narrative of a journey to Srinagar, plants on p. 348-381). - Hooker, W. J., Bot. Misc. 1: 89-91. 1830. - Miller, H. S., Taxon 19: 525. 1970 (material in Lambert herb.). - Smith, Lady P., Memoir corr. J. E. Smith 2: 118-121. 1832. #### Eponymy *Hardwickia* Roxburgh (1811).