> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1047](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190518) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8796-1) LSID 8796-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607602) QID Q21607602 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sadler, John (1837-1882), Scottish botanist at Edinburgh; assistant to J.H. Balfour 1854; acting secretary Botanical Society of Edinburgh 1858-1879; curator Royal Botanic Garden 1879-1882. **Abbreviated name**: *John Sadler* \[standard form in IPNI: *J.Sadler*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection E|E]]; mosses at [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]]. – Letters at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 198 (b. 3 Feb 1837, d. 9 Dec 1882); BB p. 266; BL 2: 301, 306, 309, 712; BM 4: 1779-1780; Bossert p. 344; Clokie p. 236; CSP 5: 360, 8: 808-809, 11: 256, 12: 643, 18: 398; Desmond p. 537; Herder p. 235; Jackson p. 246, 254; LS 7061, 23484-23487; TL-2/287; Tucker 1: 617. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 12: 424. 1882 (d.); Gard. Chron. 15: 76, 81, 1879 (app. curator Bot. Gard. Edinb.; portr.), 18: 793. 1882 (obit.); J. Bot. 21: 81-82, 382. 1883 (obit.); Proc. Perthshire Soc. nat. Sci. 2(3): 87-88. 1883 (obit.). - Balfour, J.B., Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 16: 11-15. 1886 (obit.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. Hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 138.43, 240.90, 1980. - Craig, W., \[Hist.\] Trans. Berwickshire Natural. Club 10. 72-83. 1882, repr. 8 p. (copy at E). - Fletcher, H.R. and W.H. Brown, Roy. bot. Gard. Edinburgh 123, 146, 182, 187, 189-141. 1970. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 303. 1980. - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 20, 145, 198. 1977. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 125. 1970. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 179. 1904 (360 mosses, 150 lichens). - Sayre, G., Bryologist 80: 516. 1977. - Stuart, C., J. Hort. Cottage Gard. ser. 3. 6: 55-56. 1883 (a botanical ramble with J.S.; from North British Advertiser). - Trail, J.W.H., ed., Scott. Natural. 7: 43-44. 1884 (obit.). #### Composite works - (1) J.H. Balfour (1808-1884), *Fl. Edinburgh* 1863; mosses, hepatics and lichens by J. Sadler; see TL-2/287; id. ed. 2, Edinburgh (Adam and Charles Black) 1871, p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-183, map. *Copy*: E (not mentioned under no. 287). - (2) *Mr. John Sadler's list of arctic cryptogamic* and other plants, collected by Robert Brown, Esq., during the summer of 1861, on the islands of Greenland, in Baffin's Bay and Davis' Strait, and presented to the Herbarium of the Botanical Society, in Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7: 374-375. 1862, and in R.Jones, Manual of the natural history, geology, and physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions... London 1875, p. 253-254. ### Publications ##### n.9973. Narrative of a ramble among the wild flowers on the Moffat Hills **Title** *Narrative of a ramble among the wild flowers on the Moffat Hills* in August 1857; with a list of plants to be found in the district... Moffat (William Muir) 1857. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. ramble Moffat Hills*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1857 (preface Oct 1857), p. \[1\]-64, map and 4 plates of dried specimens (see BM 4: 1779). *Copy*: E. ##### n.9974. Notice of Salix sadleri **Title** *Notice of Salix sadleri* (Syme) and Carex frigida (Allioni) both recently discovered in the Highlands of Scotland... Edinburgh (printed by Neill and Company) 1874. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1874 (plants collected on 7 Aug 1874), p. \[t.p. and 3 p. unnumbered)\]. *Copy*: E. –Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 209-211. 1874. Inf. J. Edmondson.