> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 298](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355385) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12674-1) LSID 12674-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507802) QID Q507802 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Markham, \[Sir\] Clements Robert (1830-1916), British geographer and botanist; traveller in Peru (1852-1854); involved in the introduction of Cinchona into India (visiting S. America agian 1860); employed by the India Office 1858-1862 (Cinchona), 1867-1877 (Geogr. dept.). **Abbreviated name**: *Markham* \[standard form in IPNI: *Markham*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (Indian cultivated Cinchona), [[Collection E|E]] (Canad.), [[Collection K|K]] (Peru). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 355; Barnhart 2: 449; BB p. 206; BM 3: 1242, 7: 795-796; Bossert p. 253; CSP 4: 245, 8: 332, 10: 724, 17, 17: 27; Desmond p. 419-420; DSB 9: 123-124; IH 2: 503; Jackson p. 577; Kew 3: 590-591; Langman p. 473; Plesch p. 325; PR 5816-5817; Rehder 5: 546; SK 1: cxxv; Tucker 1: 461. - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 205. 1967. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1916: 50-51. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 54: 96. 1916. - Burkill, I. H., Chapt. hist. bot. India 5, 31, 113, 134, 135. 1965. - Drewitt, F. D., Apothec. Garden 38. 1922. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 200-201. 1882. - Hedge, I. C, & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 108. 1970 (pl. Brit. Columbia at E). - Herrera, F. L., Pl. cuzcor. herrer. 24. 1930. - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 44 (Andes material "1859-1873" at K). - Markham, A. H., The life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., London 1917, xi, 384 p. - Markham, C. R., A memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio... with a plea for the correct spelling of the Chinchona genus. London 1874, 99 p. (BSbF 22 (Bibl.): xciii. 1875). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 166. 1904; Geogr. J. 25(2): 121-123. Feb 1905 (descr. of *Clementsia markhamiana*with notes). - Scott Keltie, J., Geogr. J. 47(3): 161-176. Mar 1916 (obit., b. 20 Jul 1830, d. 30 Jun 1916; p. 172-176 by A. H. Markham). - Taton, R., ed., Science in the 19th. cent. 386. 1965. - Weberbauer, A., Pfl.-Welt Peruan. Anden 14, 32. 1911 (Veg. Erde 12). - Williams, D., Geogr. J. 143(3): 343-352. 1968 (an "intimate view" of M's reconstruction of the Geographical Department of the India Office based on numerous original sources). #### Note For contemporary notices on Markham's efforts to secure *Cinchona* for the British empire see e.g. the amusing, but most likely not always equally fair, notices in the Gard. Chron. 1859, p. 464, 1860, p. 693, 712-713, 731-732, 751-752, 776. ("... it appears that in the hands of the British Government it has been impossible for Englishmen to do what has long since been effected by Dutch and French." Even the British empire could not command good luck, however). #### Eponymy *Markhamia* Seemann ex Baillon (1888). ### Publications ##### n.5427. Travels in Peru and India **Title** *Travels in Peru and India*while superintending the collection of Chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India... London (John Murray,...) 1862. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Travels*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1862 (p. xvii: 16 Oct 1862), front., p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-572, 2 maps. *Copies*: NY, Wurdack. *German transl*.: 1865, Zwei Reisen in Peru, Leipzig (n.v.). ##### n.5428. The Chinchona species of New Granada **Title** *The Chinchona species of New Granada*, containing the botanical descriptions of the species examined by Drs. Mutis and Karsten; with some account of those botanists, and of the results of their labours... London (printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode,...) 1867. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Chinchona New Granada*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1867 (p. 4: Oct 1867), p. \[1\]-139, *5 pl*. (uncol. liths.). *Copies*: G; IDC 5140. – Notes in text by John Eliot Howard (1807-1883), British quinologist (see BB p. 156); notes on Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817-1908) and José Gelestino (1732-1808). For notes on Markham's "obstinate contention for Chinchona versus Cinchona" (the latter is correct) see Markham (1874), Hanbury (The Athenaeum 1875: 162-163), and Jackson (J. Bot. 19: 220-229. 1881.). The name Cinchona commemorates Ana de Osorio, countess of Chinchón, the wife of an early Spanish vice-roy for Peru who used the bark of Cinchona in 1638 against malaria and introduced it to Europe. Linnaeus's spelling *Cinchona* L is obviously to be retained, (see also Backer). *Ref*.: Seemann, B., J. Bot. 6: 128, 155-159. 1868. ##### n.5429. A memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio **Title** *A memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio* Countess of Chinchon and Vice-queen of Peru (a.d. 1829-1839) with a plea for the correct spelling of the Chinchona genus... London (Trübner & Co.,...) 1874.Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Mem. Ana de Osorio*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1874, p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], frontisp., \[1\]-99. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. ##### n.5430. Peruvian bark **Title** *Peruvian bark*. A popular account of the introduction of Chinchona cultivation into British India... London (John Murray,...) 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Peruv. bark*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1880 (Bot. Centralbl. 16-17 Sep 1880; Nat. Nov. Dec (1) 1880), p. \[i\]-xxiii, map, \[1\]-550. *Copies*: MO, NY. *Ref*.: Jackson, B. D., J. Bot. 19: 218-220. 1881.