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> [!example] See also [[Ball, John (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Ball, John (1818-1889), Irish born British botanist, travelled in Marocco (1871), North and South America (1882) and frequently in the European Alps.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. Ball* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ball*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]] and also some at [[Collection OXF|OXF]] and [[Collection GL|GL]].
*Ref*.: BB p. 17; IH 2: 52.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 41. 1953.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 125. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 57. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 7: 94, 357; Barnhart 1: 112; BB p. 17; BL 1: 43, 45, 233, 254, 256, 2: 319, 330; BM 1: 93, 6: 52-53; CSP 1: 171, 7: 78, 9: 109, 13: 263; DNB suppl. I. 1: 115; DTS 1: 14, 6(4): 51, 111; Jackson p. 229, 351; Kew 1: 146; PR 393; Saccardo, Cron. p. xv; Zander ed. 10, p. 631.
- Cosson, Comp. Fl. atl. 1: 18-19. 1881.
- Thiselton Dyer, J. Bot. 27: 365-370. 1889.
- Hooker, Ann. Bot. 3: 450-451. 1890 (bibl.)
- Hooker, Proc. Roy. Soc. London 47: v-ix. 1890, also in J. Roy. Geogr. Soc. (repr. 16 p. Engler coll. at DS), see also J. Bot. 29: 32. 1891.
- Babington, Memorials 471. 1897.
- Pau, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. ser. 2. 6: 228-239. 1897.
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 89, 159. 1903; 3(3): 75, 174. 1905.
- Arechavaleta, Fl. Urug. 3: 2. 1906.
- Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 2. 1906.
- Nelmes and Cuthbertson, Bot. Mag. Dedic. 1827-1927: 226-228. 1932.
- Cavillier, Boissiera 5: 14. 1941.
- Coats, The plant hunters 29, 34-36. 1969.
#### Composite works
J. D. Hooker and J. Ball, *Marocco and the Great Atlas*, (1878).
#### Handwriting
Monogr. biol. Canar. 4: 32. 1973, *fig. 11.*
### Publications
##### n.288. Journal of the Linnean Society of London
**Title**
Spicilegium florae maroccanae, in *Journal of the Linnean Society of London* 16: 281-772. 1877-1878. Oct.
**Notes**
|part |pages journal |dates |
|--- |--- |--- |
|93 |281-376 |29 Nov 1877 |
|94 |377-472 |10 Jan 1878 |
|95 |473-568 |27 Feb 1878|
|96/97 |569-772 |17 Jun 1878|
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