> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 743](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120874) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2518-1) LSID 2518-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934747) QID Q934747 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ellis, John (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Ellis, John (1711-1776), Irish-born merchant in London, "agent for the Island of Dominica". **Abbreviated name**: *J. Ellis* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Ellis*\] #### Herbarium and types Ellis' herbarium was acquired by LD in 1905; he also sent plants to Linnaeus (now at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]). Specimens received by Ellis from his correspondents are also in the Smith herbarium ([[Collection LINN|LINN]]). Dixon (1960) could trace no collections of algae made by Ellis himself. *Ref*.: IH 2: 181. - Dixon, Brit. phycol. Bull. 2: 28-31. 1960. - Koster, Taxon 18: 552. 1969. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 505 (b. 1710); BB p. 102; BM 2: 523; Dawson p. 305 (b. 1705); DNB 17: 385; Henrey 679-683; HU 2: 606 \[ind.\]; Jackson p. 197, 198, 405; KR p. 160; Langman p. 261; ME 1: 181 \[biography\], 3: 570 \[index\]; NI 588-592; Plesch p. 217; PR 2665-2668, ed. 1: 2961-2965; SO 76, 651, 652, 653, 656a-b, 2529. - Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist.-nat. Banks 5: 225 \[index\]. 1800. - Carruthers, J. Roy. microsc. Soc. 1901: 113-122. - Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykologie xviii. Jahrh. 182, 184, 186-187, 195. 1936. - Savage, Calendar of the Ellis manuscripts. London 1948. - Berkeley and Berkeley, Dr Alexander Garden of Charles Town 373 \[ind.\]. 1969. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 151, 236. 1971. #### Eponymy *Ellisia* P. Browne (1756, *nom. rej.*); *Ellisia* Linnaeus (1763, *nom. cons.*); *Ellisiophyllum* Maximowicz (1871). *Note*: For other eponyms based on the name Ellis, cf. supra, sub Job Bicknell Ellis. ### Publications ##### n.1661. An essay towards a natural history of the corallines **Title** *An essay towards a natural history of the corallines*, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. To which is added the description of a large marine polype taken near the North Pole, by the Whale-fishers, in the summer 1753. London (author) 1755. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Essay nat. hist. corall.* **Notes** *Orig*.: Mar 1755, front., p. \[i\]-xvii, \[10 p. cont., err.\], \[1\]-103, *pl. 1-37*, 1 unnumb. \[microsc\], in all 39 copper engr. *French*: "*Essaisur l'histoire naturelle des corallines*, et d'autres productions marines du même genre, qu'on trouve communément sur les côtes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande; auquel on a joint une description d'un grand polype de mer, pris auprès du Pole arctique, par des pêcheurs de Baleine, pendant l'été de 1753." 's-Gravenhage (La Haye) (Pierre de Hondt) 1756. Qu., front., p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\].,125 *pl. 1-39. Copy*: PCS. – (*Essai hist. nat. corall.*) *Dutch*: "*Natuurlijke historie van de Koraalgewassen*, en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen." 's-Gravenhage (Pieter de Hondt) 1756. Qu., front., i-xvi, 1-118, 39 *pl*. (n.v.) (*Nat. hist. Koraalgew.*) *German*: "Herrn John Ellis,... *Versuch einer Natur-Geschichte der Corall-Arten* und anderer dergleichen Mer-Cörper, welche gemeiniglich an den Küsten von Gross-Britannien und Irrland gefunden werden; nebst der Bescheibung eines grossen. Bueschel-Polypen, welcher in dem Eis-Meere gefangen worden. Aus dem Englischen und Französischen übersetzt, und mit Anmerkungen, auch einem Anhange fünf hieher gehöriger Abhandlungen der Herren Schlosser, Baster und Ellis, begleitet von D. Johann Georg Krüniz. Mit 46 Kupfer-Tafeln." Nürnberg (Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe) 1767. Qu., front., p. \[1\]-52, \[1\]-168, *pl. 1-46. Copy*: PCS. – (*Vers. Natur-Gesch. CorallArten*). *Ref*.: BM 2: 523; NI 590. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 134. 1966. ##### n.1662. An historical account of coffee **Title** *An historical account of coffee*. With an engraving, and botanical description of the tree. To which are added sundry papers relative to its culture and use, as an article on diet and of commerce. London (Edward and Charles Dilly) 1774. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. coffee*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1774 (rd. by Royal Society on 24 Feb 1774; by The Gentlemen's Magazine Apr 1774; by University Library, Cambridge 4 Aug 1774; rev. Monthly Mag. London Jun 1774 \[50: 497-498\]), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-71, \[1\], 1 copper engraving of a drawing by Simon Taylor. *Copies*: HU (2), MO, NY. *Ref*.: BM 2: 523; Henrey 682; HU 638 (extensive comm.); Jackson p. 405; NI 588; PR 2667; SK p. clxxx. - Sherborn, J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 1: 141. 1938. ##### n.1663. The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes **Title** *The natural history of many curious and uncommon zoophytes*, collected from various parts of the globe by the late John Ellis... author of the Natural history of english corallines, and other works. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander... with sixty-two plates engraven by principal artists. London (Benjamin White and Son, Peter Elmsly) 1786. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Nat. hist. zooph.* **Notes** *Co-author*: Daniel Earl Solander (1733-1782). *Publ*.: 1786, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-208, *pl. 1-62* \[plus one?\]. *Copy*: PCS (*62 pl.*).-The plates were reissued by Lamouroux in his "Exposition méthodique des genres de l'ordre des Polypiers" 1821. *Ref*.: BM 2: 523. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 134. 1966.