> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 254](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066594) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13079-1) LSID 13079-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1387000) QID Q1387000 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author White, John, R.N. (1756(?)-1832), Irish naval surgeon and botanist; joined the Royal \[British\] Navy 1778, promoted to surgeon 1780, in India and the West Indies on naval duty 1780-1785; surgeon on the Irresistable headed for Australia 1786; chief surgeon of the colony of New South Wales 1786; retired to England 1794; retired from the navy 1820. **Abbreviated name**: *J. White, R.N.* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.White*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection G|G]] (Lambert set), [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]] (Smith herb.), [[Collection NSW|NSW]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Thunb.). – Original drawings by T. Watling for his *Journal* at [[Collection BM|BM]]. *Letters* to J.E. Smith at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 486; BB p. 324; Desmond p. 655 (d. 20 Feb 1832) (further refs.); HR; Lasègue p. 73, 270; TL-2/see Thunberg; Tucker 1: 743. #### Biofile - Alexander, W.B., The Emu 23: 209-215. 1924 (on Journal). - Anderson, John, Med. J. Australia 1(6): 183-187. 1933. - Anon., Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 222: 406-407. 1975. - Apfclbaum, I., Taxon 25(2-3): 331-334. 1976 (coll. White in PH). - Barton, G.B., Hist. New South Wales 1: 625 \[index\]. 1889. - Cleland, J.B., Med. J. Australia 1950: 551-553 (Naturalist in medicine). - Edmondson, J., Austral. Syst. Bot. Soc. Newsletter 36: \[1\]. 1983 (rich set of NSW plants in J.E. Smith herb. LIV). - Ferguson, J.A., Bibl. Australia 1: 43, 57, 67, 89, 108. 1941, 2: 468. 1945. - Hall, N., Botanists Eucalypts 133-134. 1978 (eponymy). - Hooker, J.D., Fl. Tasm. 2: cxxiv. 1859. - Maiden, J.H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 128-129. 1908. - Rienits, R., Austral. dict. biogr. 2: 594-595. 1967. - Rienits, R. & Th., Early artists of Australia, Sydney 1963, p. 17, 28-29, 36-40, 44-48, 55, 65-71, 75-76, 78. - Sabin, J. et al., Bibliotheca americana 28: 232. 1936. - Stearn, W.T., *in* R. Brown, Prodromus, facs. ed. Weinheim xi. 1960. - Watson, F., History of the Sydney hospital 1811 to 1911. 3-6. 1911. - Whitley, G.P., Austral. Mus. Mag. 6(9): 298-301. 1938 (Naturalist of the first fleet). #### Eponymy White Bay, in Sydney Harbour. ### Publications ##### n.17.471. Journal of a Voyage to new **Title** *Journal of a Voyage to new* \[sic\] *South Wales* with sixtxy-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions by John White Esq. re Surgeon general to the settlement. London (printed for J. Debrett, Piccadilly) 1790. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *J. Voy. N.S.W.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1790 (plates dated 29 Dec 1789), p. \[i-xvii, incl. engr. t.p.\], p. \[1\]-299, \[1-35\], \[i-iv adv.\], *65 pl*. (col. copp.). *Copies*: B-S, HH, LC, MO, NSUB, PH, Teyler, US. – See Ferguson (1941) for bibl. notes. – Plants on p. 231-236, *pl. 18-25.* *Modern reprint*: 1971, New York (Arno Pr.), ISBN 0-405-01726-x. *Copy*: LC. *French transl*.: 1795, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-256, \[257-260\], *2 pl. Copy*: HH. – *Voyage à la nouvelle Galles du Sud*, à Botany-Bay, au Port Jackson, en 1787, 1788, 1789; par John White... ouvrage où l'on trouve de nouveaux détails sur le caractère et les usages des habitans du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, de l' île Ténériffe, de Rio-Janeiro et de la Nouvelle Hollande ainsi qu'une description exacte de plusieurs animaux inconnus jusqu'à présent. Traduit de l'Anglais, avec des notes critiques et philosophiques sur l'histoire naturelle et les moeurs par Charles Pougens. À Paris (Chez Pougin,...). An 3 de la République (1795, vieux style). Oct. (*Voy. nouv. Galles du Sud*). *French transl*.: 1798, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-206, \[1\]-256, \[257-260\], *2 pl. Copy*: LC. – À Paris (Chez Guillaume...). An vi de la République (1798, vieux style). *German transl*.: 1792, p. \[i\]-xxvi, \[1\]-378, *4 pl*., map. *Tagebuch einer Reise nach Süd-Wallis* ... Wien (...F.A. Schrämbl) 1792. Duod. *Translator*: J.R. Forster; also in Mag. merkw. neu. Reisebeschr. 5: 1-136. 1791. (*Tageb. Reise Süd-Wallis*). *Swedish transl*.: 1794, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-147, \[148, err.\], *pl. 1-4. Copy*: James Ford Bell Libr., Minnesota. – John Whites *Resa till Nya Holland*, Åren 1787 och 1788. Sammandrag af Samuel Ödmann Upsala (... J. Edmans,...) 1793. Duod. Abridgement. (*Resa Nya Holland*).