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### Author
Gmelin, Johann Georg (1709-1755), German botanist and geographer who travelled in Siberia between 1733 and 1743, professor at Tübingen 1749-1755; nephew of J. F. Gmelin.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. G. Gmelin* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.G.Gmel.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
The authentic specimens for the *Flora sibirica* are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. They stem from the sale of the Lambert herbarium which contained the Pallas collections. The latter had acquired J. G. Gmelin's specimens. Other collections by J. G. Gmelin are at [[Collection LE|LE]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 228; Lasègue p. 322.
- Koster, Taxon 18: 552. 1969.
- Miller, Taxon 19: 524, 534. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
ADB 269-270; AG 3: 500, 5(1): 861; Barnhart 2: 56; BM 2: 685; Bretschneider 1: 311-312; KR p. 241; MW p. 138; MW suppl. 75; NDB 6: 479 (Dolezal); NI 721; PR 3381-3386; Quenstedt p. 165; SO ind. authors 24; TR 457-458; Zander ed. 10, p. 603.
- Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 254 \[index\]. 1800 (bibl.)
- Meusel, Lexikon teut. Schriftst. 4: 230-233. 1804.
- Plieninger, J. G. Gmelin reliquias... Stutgart 1861 (corr. with Linnaeus, Haller, Steller et al.)
- Pekarsky, Istoria imperat. Akademii Nauk 1: 431-457. 1870.
- Lindemann, Bull. Soc. Natur. Moscou 59(1): 298. 1884.
- Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 127, 173. 1903, 3(3): 125, 188. 1905.
- Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 49. 1906.
- Gmelin, Otto, ed., Johann Georg Gmelin, 1709-1755. Der Erforscher Sibiriens. Ein Gedenkbuch, München 1911, p.v., 146 (portr.)
- Golder, Bering's Voyages, New York 1922-1925, 2 vols. (see index 2: 275).
- Herrmann, Neue deut. Hefte 11: 847-849. 1955.
- Coats, The plant hunters, 47-50, *pl. 3.* 1969.
- Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 87, 260, 272. 1971.
- Kruta, DSB 5: 427-429. 1972 (bibl.)
- Dobat und Mägdefrau, 300 Jahr Botanik in Tübingen 17-19. 1975 (portr.) (Attempto 55/56, 1975).
#### Eponymy
*Gmelina* Linnaeus (1753); *Gmelinia* K. P. J. Sprengel (1831, *orth. var.*)
#### Handwriting
Candollea 30: 207-208. 1975.
### Publications
##### n.2047. Flora sibirica
**Title**
*Flora sibirica* sive historia plantarum Siberiae. St. Petersburg (Academia Scientiarum) 1747-1769, 4 vols., Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. sibir.*
**Notes**
*Vol. 1*: 1747 (preface 27 Apr 1747, GGA 16 Nov 1847), p. \[i\]-cxxx, \[1\]-221, \[26, ind.\] *pl. 1-50.*
*Vol. 2*: '1749' published early 1752 (GGA 1752: 592. 19 Jun 1752), p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-240, \[9, ind.\], *pl. 1-98*, no. *70* double.
*Vol. 3*: 1768 (preface Apr 1768), edited by S. G. Gmelin, p. \[1\]-276, \[9, ind.; 1, err.\], *56 pl*.: *1, 2, 2*\[*a*\], *3-23, 24/25* \[on one plate\], *26, 27/28, 29, 30*, \[*31*\], *32, 33/34, 35/40*, \[*41* lacking\], *42-45, 46/47, 48/49, 50/51, 52/53, 54, 55, 56/58, 57, 59/61, 60, 62, 63, 64/65/66, 67*.
*Vol. 4*: 1769 (preface 30 Mar 1769), edited by S. G. Gmelin, p. \[i\], \[1\]-214, *81 pl*.: *1-7, 8/9, 10-21, 23, 24, 22/25, 26-28, 29/30, 31-47, 48/49, 50-82, 83a, 83b, 84*.
*Copies*: MO, NY, U.
*Facsimile ed*.: Announced, but not yet published, 1974 (Asher).
*Ref*.: BM 2: 685; DA 1967; HU 531; Lipschitz 2: 287-288; NI 721; PR 3381; SA 2: 563-564; SO 632 c; TR 457; IDC 5423; Jacksonp. 393; MW p. 138.
- J. G. Gmelin, Reise durch Siberien. 4 vols. Goettingen 1751-1752.
- Ledebour, Commentarius in J. G. Gmelini Floram sibiricam, repr. (Regensburg 1841 Qu.) from Denkschr. Kön. Bayr. bot. Ges. Regensburg 3: 43-138.
- J. G. Gmelini... reliquias commercii epistolici Carolo Linnaeo, Alberto Hallero, Guilelmo Stellero Floram Gmelini Sibiricam concernentibus... curavit G. H. Th.
- Plieninger. Stuttgart 1861, viii, 196 p. (bibl.). *Copy*: NY.
- Trautvetter, Acta Horti petropolitani 7: 96-97. 1880.
- Gradmann, J. G. Gmelin, Ein Gedenkbuch. München 1911.
- Wilmott, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1935: 90.
- Junk, Rara 218-219. 1936.
- Hilde Hermann, Neue deut. Hefte 11: 841-851. 1955.