> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 807](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190278) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8435-1) LSID 8435-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18911103) QID Q18911103 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Robbins, James Watson (1801-1879), American (New England) botanist; Dr. med. Yale 1828; practicing physician at Uxbridge, Mass. 1830-1869, surgeon and physician with a copper-mining company nr Portage Lake, Lake Superior 1839-1863; travelling in Cuba and Texas 1863-1864; from 1864-1879 again in Uxbridge devoting himself to botany. **Abbreviated name**: *J.W. Robbins* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.W.Robbins*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. – See Day (1901). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 162 (b. 18 Nov 1801, d. 9 Jan 1879); BM 4: 1711; Hortus 3: 1202; Lenley p. 345, 467; ME 1: 225, 2: 443; TL-1/431; TL-2/2124. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 19: 77. 1888 (d.); Bot. Not. 1880. 28 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 37: 260. 1879 (d.); J. Bot. 17: 96. 1879 (d.). - Day, M., Rhodora 3: 262. 1901 (coll.). - Geiser, S.W., Field & Labor. 27: 185. 1959. - Högrell, B., Bot. hist. 1: 255. 1886. - P., Worcester Southern Compendium (Uxbridge, Mass.), 12(3): 18 Jan 1879 (copy: - MO). - Pease, A.S., Fl. N. New Hampshire 33, 35. 1964. - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 77. 1978. #### Composite works Contributed *Potamogeton* to A. Gray, Manual, ed. 5, 1867.