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### Author
Sanderson, John (1820/21-1881), Scottish journalist, trader, botanical collector and horticulturist; to Durban, S. Afr., 1850; active in the Horticultural Society of Natal; secretary of the "Natal Times" Company 1851.
**Abbreviated name**: *J. Sanderson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sand.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Material at [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]]. – Notebook at [[Collection PRE|PRE]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 207; BB p. 268; BM 4: 1800; Desmond p. 541; NI 807; PR alph.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 7: 160. 1881 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 6: 232. 1881 (d.); Nat. Nov. 3: 135. 1881 (d.).
- Bayer, A.W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 67: 404. 1971.
- Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 71, 307-308. 1981.
- Harvey, W.H., *in* W.H. Harvey & O.W. Sonder, Fl. cap. 1: ix. 1894 (sent collections from Natal and Transvaal "containing many new genera and species").
- Hooker, W.J., Curtis's Bot. Mag. 79: text to pl. 4716. 1853.
- White, A. & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2 102, 360. 1937.
- Sanderson, J., J.R. Geogr. Soc. 30: 233-255. 1860 (account trip 1851-1852).
#### Composite works
*Rough notes on the botany of Natal* kindly supplied by John Sanderson, ... *in* J. Chapman, *Travels in the interior of South Africa* 2: \[443\]-463. 1858; on p. 438-440 *Notes on trees... of the Zambesi*, and on p. 441-442, *The Baobab*, presumably also by Sanderson. The *List of Natal trees* on p. 464-465 is by J.C. Brown.
#### Eponymy
*Sandersonia* W.J. Hooker (1853). *Note*: *Sandersoniomyces* Benjamin (1968) honors M.W. Sanderson, American entomologist.