> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 417](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355504) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/23275-1) LSID 23275-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633378) QID Q633378 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Menzies, Archibald (1754-1842), British physician, gardener, botanist, zoologist and plant collector; assistant-surgeon in the Royal Navy 1782; in N.W. America 1786-1789; with Capt. Vancouver on the Voyage of the Discovery and Chatham 1791-1795. **Abbreviated name**: *Menzies* \[standard form in IPNI: *Menzies*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection E|E]] (main herbarium); some original collections, however, also at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]] and [[Collection S|S]]. For details see IH. Various materials were acquired by F.R.S. Balfour who passed on diplomas, charters and relics to the Provincial Archives at Victoria, B. C., and certain papers to the Library of the State of Washington. Correspondence with W. J. Hooker at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Name The "Z" in Scots is the equivalent of "Y" and should be so pronounced. See e.g. Balfour (1944/5). #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 202; Backer p. 366; Barnhart 2: 476; BB p. 213; BM 3: 1288, 7: 826; Bossert p. 264; Clokie p. 209-210; CSP 4: 345; Dawson p. 46, 309, 425, 604-607, 633; Desmond p. 434; DNB 37: 258; Dryander 2: 20, 466, 5: 82; Frank 3(Anh.): 63; GR p. 377, cat. p. 68; Hortus 3: 1199 ("Menz."); HR; IH2: 527; Kew 3: 656; Lasègue p. 366-368, 502, 324, 328, 337, 391; Lenley p. 285; PR (alph.); SBC p. 127 ("Menz."); SK 5: ccci-cccii, 8: lxv; Urban-Berl. p. 307; Zander ed. 11, p. 788. - Alden and Ifft, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci. 20: 15-18. 1943. - Anon., Gard. Chron. 1842: 123; Gentleman's Mag. 1842(1): 139-141 (fide HR); J. Bot. 60: 63. 1922 (note on letters at BM); Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 139-141. 1842; Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13: 10-11. 1879. - Balfour, F. R. S., Proc. Linn. Soc. 156:170-183. 1944/45 (many biogr. details based on original sources). - Brewer, W. H., *in*Sereno Watson, Botany of California 2: 553-559. 1880. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 433. 1880. - Cheeseman, T. F., Man. New Zeeland Fl. xxi. 1906. - Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 327, 335. 1969. - Cockayne, L., Veget. New Zealand 2. 1921. - Cowan, J. M., Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 21(4): 219-227. 1954 (on the Menzies colls. at E). - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 69. 1934; Banks letters 604-607. 1958 (letters to Banks containing authentic info. on voyages). - Eastwood, A., Leafl. Western Bot. 2: 92-94 1938 (on tobacco); Quart. Calif. Hist. Soc. 18(4): 336-337. 1939. - Ewan, J., *in*Cent. Progress natl. Sci. 55. 1955; *in* Pursh, F., Fl. Amer. sept. facs. repr. 1979, intr. p. 21. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U. S. 76. 1969. - Fletcher, H. R., Story R. Hort. Soc. 9, 89, 102-103, 105. 1969. - Glenn, R., The botanical explorers of New Zealand 1950, p. 175 (index). - Godley, E. J., Trans. R. Soc. New Zealand 88: 63-64. 1960 (on coll. on Staten Island 1787). - Godwin, G., Vancouver, a life, 1757-1798, 134-143 et passim. 1930. - Graustein, J. E., Thomas Nuttall 88, 116. 1967. - Grinnell, J., Condor 34: 243-252. 1932 (birds). - Hadfield, M., Pioneers in gardening 120. 1951. - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 110. 1970 (descr. of herb. at E). - Hedrick, U. P., Hist. hortic. America 402, 413-414. 1950. - Hooker, W. J., Amer. J. Sci. Arts 9: 274, 281. 1825. - Hooker, J. D., Fl. Tasm. cxiv. 1860. - Hughes, K. W., Contr. bibl. Oregon bot., Oregon State Coll. 1940, p. 7 (grasses, sedges and cryptogams at E). - Hultén, E., Bot. Not. 1940: 297 (itin. Alaska). - Huxley, L., Life letters J. D. Hooker 1: 64, 2: 429. 1918. - James, N. D. G., The trees of Bicton 111. 1969. - Jepson, W. L., Madrõno 1: 262-266. 1928 (portr.). - Kent, D. H., Brit. herb. 69. 1957 (British coll. E, BM, K). - Laundon, J. R., Lichenologist 11: 14. 1979 (lichens E; also BM, LINN (herb. J. E. Smith)). - Maiden, J. H., J. West Austral, nat. Hist. Soc. 6: 20-21. 1909; Sir Joseph Banks 1909, p. 53, 125. - McCaughey, V., Haw. For. Agr. 15: 418, 420, 422. 1918. - Meany, E. A., Vancouver's discovery of Puget Sound 295-297 et passim. 1915 (portr.). - Menzies, A., Calif. Hist. Soc. Quart. 2: 265-340. 1924 (California journal). - Menzies, D., Gard. Chron. 1921(2): 324. - Miller, H. S., Taxon 19: 532. 1970. - Milner, J. D., Cat. Portr. Kew 84. 1906. - Newcombe, C. F., Menzies Journal of Vancouver's Voyage, April to October 1972, with biographical note by J. Forsyth. Victoria B. C. 1923 (Arch. Brit. Columbia, Mem. 5, 1923, xx, 171 p., 20 pl.) (see also Britten, J. Bot. 62: 119-123. 1924, extensive review, e.g. with notes on Menzies' meeting with Mociño and Sessé). - Penhallow, D. P., Trans. R. Soc. Can. 5(4): 11, 24, 45, 46, 47, 56, 57, 60. 1888. - Piper, C. V., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 11: 11. 1906. - Porter, D. M., Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 81: 81. 1980. - Rigg, G. B., Washington hist. Quart. 20: 163. 1929. - St. John., H., Phytologia 38: 1-6. 1977 (list of Sandw. Isl. pl.). - Sargent, C. S., Silva 2: 90. 1891. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 368. 1975 (itin., coll.); Bryologist 80: 513. 1917 (mosses at E, BP, NY-Mitten, FH-Taylor, S). - Schmid, G., Chamisso, als Naturforscher 11, 170. 1942. - Small, A. C., J. Scott. Rock Gard. Club 13(2): 91-97. 1972. - Stansfield, H., Handb. Guide Herb. Coll. Liverpool 61. 1935. - Souster, J. E. S., West.Austral. Natr. 1(6): 113-114. 1948. - Stearn, W. T., Introduction to R. Brown, Prodromus, facsimile ed. 1960, p. 12. - Steere, W. C., Bot. Rev. 43: 292. 1977. - St. John, H., Phytologia 38(1): 1-6. 1977 (plants Sandwich Is. coll. by M.). - Stone, Condor 18: 4. 1916. - Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 299-300. - Thomas, J. H.,Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 159. 1961 (California visits); Huntia 3: 17. 1969. - Wilson, E. H., Plant hunting 103, 180. 1927. - Wilson, W. F., *in* Menzies, A., Hawaii Nei 1920, p. 1-9 (portr., biogr., b. 15 Mar 1754, d. 15 Feb 1842). - Wood, R. F. & J. D. Matthews, *in* J. F. Leroy, Bot. franç. Amér. nord 306, 307, 309. 1957 (see also p. 347). #### Eponymy *Menziesia* J. E. Smith (1791). ### Publications ##### n.5833. Hawaii Nei **Title** *Hawaii Nei* 128 years ago... Honolulu, T. H. 1920. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hawaii Nei*. **Notes** *Editor*: W. F. Wilson. *Publ*.: 1920 (see also J. Bot. 58: 159. 1920), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-viii, portr. Menzies, \[1\]-199, *34 pl. Copy*: NY. – Parts of M's journal kept during Vancouver's Voyage dealing with visits to the Sandwich Islands, 1792-1794.