> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 522](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355609) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6522-1) LSID 6522-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2614632) QID Q2614632 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mitchell, John (1711-1768), Virginia-born British physician and botanist; physician at Urbanna, Virginia; 1735-1746, 1746-1768 in London. **Abbreviated name**: *Mitch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mitch.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (Banks herb.); further material at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2:496; BB p. 217; BM 3: 1323; Clokie p. 213; DAB 39: 129; Desmond p. 442-443; DNB 38: 70; Dryander 1: 192, 2: 54, 3: 31; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Mitch."); IH 2: 544; Kew 4: 16; Lasègue p. 329, 346, 497, 506; ME 1: 212, 3: 343, 350, 736; Pennell p. 614; PR 6293 (ed. 1: 6975); Rehder 1: 305; RS p. 120; TL-1/879. - Allibone, S. A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1326-1327. 1870. - Berkeley, E., Occas. Pap. E. Lee Trinkle Library 5: 1-27. 1972; Dr. John Mitchell: the first Virginia-born scientist, Fredericksburg, Va., May 1972, 27 p. (Occ. Pap. E. Lee Trinkle Library, Univ. Virg. no. 5); and D. S., Dr. John Mitchell: the man who made the map of North America. Chapel Hill 1974, xx, 283 p.; and D. S., John Clayton 234 \[index\]. 1963. - Carrier, L., Ann. Rep. Amer. hist. Ass. 1918(1): 199-219. 1921 (on scientific work as naturalist, cartographer and historian). - Crowley, W. R., Jr., Morton Arbor. Quart. 12(3): 40-41. 1976. - Dandy, J. E., Regn. veg. 51: 17. 1967 (generic names). - Darlington, W., Reliq. Balw. 363. 1843; Memorials 135, 149, 156, 171, 173, 176, 183, 188, 189, 198, 330, 354, 356, 363. 1849. - Dorman, J. F. and J. F. Lewis, Virginia Mag. Hist. Biogr. 76(4): 437-440. 1968 (documentation on basic biogr. data). - Earnest, E., John and William Bartram 40, 46, 48, 69, 75. 1940. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 34, 60. 1969. - Fee, A. L. A., Vie de Linné 149-150. 1832. - Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 241. 1911. - Hindle, B., Pursuit science revol. America 403 \[index\]. 1956. - Hulth, J. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 25, 28, 31, 32. 1922. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.) 18. 1922 (pl. LINN). - Jones, G. W., Virginia Mag. 70: 43-48. 1962 (yellow fever epidem.); Virginia Mag. Hist. Biogr. 76(4): 441-444. 1968 (on M's library sale of 1746). - Kelly, H. A., Some American medical botanists 33-37. 1914; Amer. med. biogr. 801. 1920. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 168. 1904 (pl. BM). - Pulteney, R., Sketches 2: 278-281. 1790. - Smith, J. E., Sel. corr. Linnaeus 1: 34. 1821, 2: 399, 442-451. 1821. - Stearns, R. P., Osiris 8: 99-100. 1948 (membership Roy. Soc.). - Thatcher, H., Virginia hist. Mag. 39: 126-135, 206-220. 1931, 40: 48-62, 97-110, 268-279, 335-346. 1932. 41: 57-70, 144-156. 1933 (main biogr.). #### Handwriting Smith, J. E., Select. corr. Linnaeus 2: facs. no. 25. 1821. #### Eponymy *Mitchella* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.6129. Dissertatio brevis de principiis botanicorum **Title** *Dissertatio brevis de principiis botanicorum* et zoologorum deque novo stabiliendo naturae rerum congruo, cum appendice aliquot generum plantarum recens conditorum. Nürnberg 1769. Qu. **Notes** *Original publication*: Acta Nat. Cur. Ephemerides 8(App.): 187-224. 1748. The appendix (p. 203-224) contains new genera numbered i-xxx. Linnaeus and Adanson mostly refer to the genus number. The 1769 work is admissible for the purpose of valid publication of generic names. *Ref*.: Sprague, T. A., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1928: 359 (Penstemon). - Wilmott, A. J., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1935: 91 (proposal to reject M's generic names).