> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 242](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189713) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7643-1) LSID 7643-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701428) QID Q1701428 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Phillips, John (1800-1874), British geologist and palaeobotanist; curator of the York Museum 1824-1840; professor of geology, Trinity Coll., Dublin 1844-1853; keeper Ashmolean museum, Oxford 1854-1870. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Phillips* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Phillips*\] #### Collections and types Oxford University Museum and BM (see J.M. Edmonds 1977 and Bridson 1980). #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 312; Barnhart 3: 81; BB p. 243 (b. 25 Dec 1800, d. 24 Apr 1874); BM 4: 1568, 8: 1008; CSP 4: 888-890, 8: 617-618, 11: 9, 17: 853; De Toni 2: xcv; DNB 45: 207-208; Jackson p. 182; Kew 4: 297-299; Quenstedt p. 336-337; Rehder 1: 393; TL-2/896. #### Biofile - Anon., Geol. Mag. dec. I. 7: 301-306. 1870 (biogr., portr.), dec.2.1(5): 240. 1874 (b. 25 Dec 1800, d. 24 Apr 1874) repr. Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 7: 608. 1874. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl 428 \[index\]. 1980. - Davis, J.W., Proc. Yorks. Geol. Polytechn. Soc. ser. 2. 8(1): 3-20. 1883 (obit.); Hist. Yorks. Geol. Polytechn. Soc. 1837-1887, p. 119-135. 1889 (Proc. ser. 2, 10, 1889). - Edmonds, J.M., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8(2): 169-175. 1977 (on location of P's type specimens; many taxa were based on colls. by others; deals with the legend of John Phillips's lost fossil collection). - Evans, J., Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 31: xxxvii-xliii. 1875 (obit.). - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1980, no. 2986. - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 1: 514, 2: 208, 512, 514, 515, 520. 1918. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchili. 317. 1969. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 436-437. 1863, 3: 1035. 1898 (bibl.). - Sheppard, T., Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc. 22: 153-187. *pl. 10.* 1933 (biogr., portr., bibl.). - Sherborn, C.D., Where is the... collection 107. 1940 ("In 1908 coll. was worked over by Lindsall Richardson"). - Woodward, H.B., Hist. Geol. Soc. London 333 \[index\], portr. facing p. 112. 1907. - Woodhead, T.W., Naturalist Mar 1923: 100 (portr.). - Zittel, K.A. von, Hist. geol. palaeontol. 436, 554 \[index\]. 1901. #### Composite works - (1) Contributed to W. Buckland, *Geol. mineral.* ed. 3, 1858, see TL-2/896. - (2) with John William Salter, *Palaeobotanical appendix*, Great Brit. Geol. Survey Mem. 2(1): 331-386, *pl. 1-30.* 1848. #### Eponymy *Phillipsia* K.B. Presl (1838). ### Publications ##### n.7870. Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire **Title** *Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire*; or a description of the strata and organic remains of the Yorkshire coast: accompanied by a geological map, sections, and plates of the fossil plants and animals... York (printed for the author,...) 1829. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. geol. Yorkshire*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1-10 Aug 1829 (Geol. Soc. London, rd. 11 Aug 1829), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-192, *pl*. \[*0*\], *1*-\[9\], *1-16. Copy*: Univ. Illinois (inf. D.P. Rogers). *Ed. 2*: *1835-1836. Copies*: Edinburgh Univ. Libr., PH, USGS. *Part 1*: 1835 front., map, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-184, *pl. 1-2* \[*3-9*\], *1-14*, \[1, note\]. *Part 2*: 1836, p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-253, *pl. 1-25.* *Ed. 3*: 1875, edited by R. Etheridge (n.v.). ##### n.7871. Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset **Title** *Figures and descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset*; observed in the course of the ordnance geological survey of that district... London (Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans) 1841. **Abbreviated title**: *Fig. foss. Cornwall*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1841, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-231, *60 pl. Copies*: Edinburgh Univ. Libr., UC (inf. J. Edmondson and R. Schmid).