> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 576](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190047) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8133-1) LSID 8133-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363211) QID Q1363211 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rand, Isaac (x-1743), British apothecary, gardener and botanist; F.R.S. 1719; curator ("praefectus") of the Chelsea Physick Garden 1724-1743. **Abbreviated name**: *I. Rand* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rand*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]] and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Rand's herbarium was presented to the Chelsea garden by his widow; it was presented to [[Collection BM|BM]] by the Apothecaries Company in 1862 together with e.g. the herbarium of J. Ray. The specimens "so far as they were of importance" were incorporated in the general herbarium and the British collection of [[Collection BM|BM]]; other specimens are in the [[Collection BM|BM]] Sloane herbarium (Dandy 1958). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 482-483; Barnhart 3: 127; BB p. 252; BM 4: 1644; Clokie p. 229; Desmond p. 510; DNB 47: 268-269; Dryander 3: 97; Frank 3 (Anh.): 81; Henrey 2: 736 \[index\], 3: 105; Jackson p. 410; Kew 4: 400; Langman p. 612; Lasègue p. 324; PR ed. 1: 8347-8348; Rehder 1: 52; TL-2/see A. Buddie; Tucker 1: 581. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 18-19. 1976. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1736. 1878. - Dandy, J.E., The Sloane herbarium 188-189. 1958. - Drewitt, F.D., Apothec. Garden 56, 65. 1922. - Druce, G.C., Fl. Berkshire cxxxvi. 1897. - Gager, CS., Brooklyn. Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 241. 1938. - Kent, D.H., Brit. Herb. 74. 1957; Hist. fl. Middlesex 15-16. 1975. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 176. 1904 (herb.). - Pearsall, W.H., Fl. Surrey 46. 1931. - Richardson, R., Extracts lit. sci. corr. 125. 1835. - Schuhes, J.A., Flora 8: 36. 1825 (on state of herb. in Apothec. gard.). - Semple, R.H., Mem. bot. gard. Chelsea 41-63. 1878. - Trimen, H. & W.T.T. Dyer, Fl. Middlesex 388-389. 1869. - Wall, C., Hist. worshipf. Soc. Apothec. London 163, 167, 169-171, 174, 176, 178, 221, 271, 282, *pl. 15.* 1968. #### Eponymy *Randa* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Randia* Linnaeus (1753); *Rangia* Grisebach (1866, *orth. var.*). ### Publications ##### n.8626. Index plantarum officinalium **Title** *Index plantarum officinalium*, quas, ad materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, in Horto chelseiano, ali ac demonstrari curavit societas pharmaceutica londinensis. Londini \[London\] (Imprimebat J.W.) 1730. Duod. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1730, p. \[i-v\], sign. A6-H6. *Copy*: Houghton library, Cambridge, Mass. ##### n.8627. Horti medici Chelseani **Title** *Horti medici Chelseani*: index compendiarius, exhibens nomina plantarum, quas ad rei herbariae precipue materiae medicae scientiam promovendam, ali curavit Societas pharmacopoeorum londinensium... Londini (sumptibus auctoris,...) 1739. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hort. med. chels.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1739, p \[i-viii\], \[1\]-214, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: E, FI. – See Henrey no. 1251, q.v. also, no. 1252, for the 1730 *Index plantarum officinalium*.