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### Author
Horsfield, Thomas (1773-1859), American zoologist and botanist; Dr. med. Philadelphia 1798; naturalist on Java 1800-1818; from 1820 keeper of the East India Company museum, London.
**Abbreviated name**: *Horsf* \[standard form in IPNI: *Horsf.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]], other material at [[Collection BO|BO]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection CWU|CW]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection SING|SING]], [[Collection U|U]]. - Drawings at [[Collection BM|BM]] and India Office Library.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 273; Barnhart 2: 205; BB p. 155; BM 2: 876-877, 6: 484; CSP 3: 441-442, 6: 691; DAB (by J. F. Fulton); Dawson p. 692; Desmond p. 322; DNB 27: 379; IF p. 706; IH 2: 286; Jackson p. 142; Kew 3: 36; Lasègue p. 494, 275, 506; MW p. 195; NI 934; Plesch p. 268; PR 4271 (ed. 1: 4708); Rehder 5: 406; SK 1: 243-244, xxxii, 5: clxxxvii, 8(1): xlvi; TL-2/418, 836: Tucker 1: 352.
- Allan, Mea, The Hookers of Kew 1785-1911, London 1967, p.64.
- Anon., Proc. Roy. Soc. 10: xix-xxi. 1860; Bonplandia 8: 219. 1860; Flora42: 749. 1859; Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 439. 1859.
- Boelman, H. A. C., Bijdr. gesch. Geneeskruidcultuur Ned. O.-Ind. 61-65. 1936.
- Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 38. 1969.
- McNair, Torreya 42(1): 1-9. 1942 (bibl.).
- Philips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. Coll. Acad. Phila. p. 152, 567. 1963.
- Schlechtendal, D. F. L. von, Bot, Zeit. 17: 336. 1859.
- Sirks, M. J., Indisch natuuronderzoek 81, 82, 140. 1915.
- Stafleu, F. A., Regn. veg. 71: 330. 1970.
- Steenis-Kruseman, M.J. van, Fl. males, Bull. 31: 3001. 1978 (herb.).
#### Composite works
(I) Bennett, J. J. and Brown, R., *Plantae javanicae rariores*...legit et investigavit T. Horsfield, 1838-1852 (TL 2/418).
#### Handwriting
Fl. males, ser. I. 1: cl. 1950.
#### Eponymy
*Horsfieldia* Willdenow (1806); *Horsfieldia* Blume ex A.P. de Candolle (1830); *Horsfieldia* Chifflot (1909).
### Publications
##### n.3056. Map of the island of Java
**Title**
*Map of the island of Java*, to illustrate the researches of Thomas Horsfield, M. D. with the geographical preface and postcript of Plantae javanicae rariores. London (printed by Richard Taylor,...) 1852. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Map Java*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1852, p. \[i\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-xvi, 1 map. *Copy*: U.