> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 420](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212462) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10774-1) LSID 10774-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2605200) QID Q2605200 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Townsend, John Kirk (1809-1851), American naturalist, especially interested in ornithology; collected plants on a journey with Th. Nuttall west of the Mississippi river; travelled also in the Sandwich Islands and South America; in charge of the Ornithological Department of the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. **Abbreviated name**: *J.K. Townsend* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.K.Towns.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]] and [[Collection US|US]]. – Manuscript material at [[Collection PH|PH]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 395; BM 5: 2129; DAB 18: 617-618; Ewan ed. 1: 8, 273, ed. 2: 222 (further refs.); Lenley p. 471; ME 3: 667; PH 539 \[index\]; Tucker 1: 695. #### Biofile - Alden and Ifft, Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 20: 40-42. 1943. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2441. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 240: 650. 1964; Who was who Amer. 607. 1967. - Beidleman, R.G., Audubon Mag. 59: 64-65, 83, 88. 1957 (T. on the Oregon trail). - Brown, J.H., ed., Lambs biogr. dict. United States 7: 367. 1903. - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 251-252. 1979. - Ewan, J., *in* Cent. Sci. San Francisco 61. 1955. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 7. 1969. - Goodman, G.J., Madroño 7: 115-118. 1943 (*Parthenium alpinum*). - Graham, E.W., Ann. Carnegie Mus. 26: 11. 1937. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 479 \[index\]. 1967 (discusses Narrative). - Jepson, W.L., Madroño 2: 143-144. 1934 (overland journey). - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. expl. Trans. Mississippi West 1290-1850. 1141 \[index\]. 1955. - Merritt, J.I., The American West, Mag. West Hist. 14(2): 4-9. 1977 (on the 1834 journey of T. and Nuttall). - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 18: 35-38. 1936. - Reveal, J., *in* A. Cronquist et al., Intermountain flora 1: 43-44. 1972. - Stone, W., Cassinia 7: 1-5. 1903 (biogr. sketch, portr.). #### Eponymy *Townsendia* W.J. Hooker (1834) was named for David Townsend (1787-1858), American botanist. ### Publications ##### n.14.804. Narrative of a journey accross the Rocky Mountains **Title** *Narrative of a journey accross the Rocky Mountains* to the Columbia River, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c. With a scientific appendix... Philadelphia (Henri Perkins,...), Boston (Perkins & Martin) 1839. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. journ. Rocky Mts.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1839, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-352. *Copies*: HH, PH, USDA. *Facsimile ed*.: 1905, *in* R.G., Thwaites, ed., Early Western Travels 1748-1846, vol. 21, 1905. *Other edition*: 1840, Sporting excursions in the Rocky Mountains... London, 2 vols., (n.v.). See BM 5: 2129.