> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 281](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212323) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10605-1) LSID 10605-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1702008) QID Q1702008 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Thompson, John Vaughan (1779-1847), British surgeon, zoologist and botanist; studied surgery at Edinburgh 1797-1798; assistant surgeon with the Prince of Wales's Fencibles 1799, in Gibraltar 1799, in the West Indies and Guiana 1799-1809, from 1803 as full surgeon; to Madagascar and Mauritius 1812-1816; district medical inspector at Cork 1816-1835; in charge of the convict medical department at Sydney 1835-1847. **Abbreviated name**: *J.V. Thomps.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.V.Thomps.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection M|M]] (lichens), [[Collection MO|MO]] (Madagascar). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 377; BB p. 298; BM 5: 2097; CSP 5: 958-959; Desmond p. 607; DNB 19: 698-699; Hortus 3: 1205; Jackson p. 249; PR 9228; Rehder 1: 255, 396; Tucker 1: 685. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 238: 126. 1964; Newsletter Soc. Hist. nat. Hist. 18: 6. 1983 (letters Natl. Archives). - Baker, J.G., Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland 14(1): 82. 1902. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.47, 255.141. 1980. - Britten, J.G., J. Bot. 50: 169-171. 1912 (b. 19 Nov 1779, d. 21 Jan 1847). - Praeger, R.L., Some Irish naturalists 165-166. 1949. - Vaughan, R.E., Proc. R. Soc. Arts Sci. Mauritius 1(3): 241-248. 1953. #### Note J.V. Thompson was the author of the anonymous *A catalogue of the exotic plants cultivated in the Mauritius*... Mauritius (printed by Baron & Souvignec...) Nov 1816, Qu., 31 p. for which see Vaughan (1953). A second edition was issued in 1822 (n.v.). #### Eponymy *Thompsonia* R. Brown (1821); *Vaughania* S. Moore (1920). ### Publications ##### n.14.253. A catalogue of plants growing in the vicinity of Berwick upon Tweed **Title** *A catalogue of plants growing in the vicinity of Berwick upon Tweed*, by Jn.V. Thompson Esquire surgeon to his Majesty's 37th Reg.... London (Printed for J. White...) 1807. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Berwick*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1807, p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[xxv\], \[1\]-132. *Copies*: BR, HH, MO, NY.