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### 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).