> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 676](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355763) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6819-1) LSID 6819-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731937) QID Q731937 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mutis y Bosio, José Célestino Bruno (1732-1808), Spanish physician and botanist at Madrid; went to New Granada in 1750, discovered *Cinchona*; director of the *Expedición botánica* and its flora; founder of the first astronomical observatory in South America; subsequently professor of mathematics at Santa-Fé de Bogota; founder of a botanic garden and ultimately clergyman at Santa Fé. **Abbreviated name**: *Mulis* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mutis*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MA|MA]]; further sets of Colombian material at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection COL|COL]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection MEDEL|MEDEL]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SBT|SBT]], [[Collection ST|ST]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]], [[Collection US|US]]. Manuscripts and plant illustrations at Madrid (6849) and [[Collection LINN|LINN]]; a manuscript on quinine is at [[Collection BM|BM]](NH) (see BM 3: 1387). #### Note A publication of the coloured plates of Colombian plants was started in Madrid in 1954, edited by S. Rivas-Goday and E. Perez-Arbelaez, to be completed in 51 volumes, under the title *Flora de la Real Expedición bolánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada* (1760-1817). So far published vols. 1, 7, 8, 27, 44, 1954-1969. – For letters and diary see Hernandéz de Alba (1947-1949 and 1957-1958). #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 705; Backer p. 386; Barnhart 2: 533; Blunt p. 168-169; BM 3: 1387, 7: 891; Bossert p. 279; Colmeiro 1: clxxxix-cxc; Dawson p. 535, 544, 641, 709; Dryander 2: 78, 3: 331, 332, 5: 91; DSB 15: 429-430 (b. 6 Apr 1732, d. 11 Sep 1808); Frank 3(Anh.): 69-70; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Mutis"); IH 1 (ed. 6): 362, 2: 575; Kew 4: 99; KR p. 513; Lasègue p. 347, 470, 505; PR (alph.) (ed. 1: 7358-7359); Rehder 5: 604; SO 2533, 2556; TL-2/1061, 3141, see index; Tucker 1: 509; Zander ed. 10, p. 696, ed. 11, p. 793. - Anon., Appleton Cycl. Amer. biogr. 4: 472. 1888; Recuerdo de la Expositión retrospectiva de Historia natural., celebrada en el Jardin Botánico de Madrid en Julio de 1929 publicado con ocasión del bicentenario del nacimiento de D. José Celestino Mutis Madrid 1932 \[Comisión de estudios retrospectivos de historia natural de la Academia de Ciencias exactas, fisicas y naturales.\] - Bateman, A. D., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. 9(43): xvii-xxvi. 1961 (the influence of M. on Colombian national culture). - Bolivar, I., ed., Recuerdo de la exposición retrospectiva de historia natural, Madrid 1932, iv, 72 p. (portr.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 436, 1880. (coll. MA). - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. Souvenirs 220. 1862. - Colmeiro, M., Bot. Penins. Hisp.-lusit. 171-172. 1858. - Coats, A. M., The plant hunters 362, 368. 1969. - Fries, Th. M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(3): 33, 34, 42, 45, 81. 1909, 1(6): 88. 1912. - Gómez, L. D., Rev. Acad. Colomb. Ci. exact. fis. nat. 9(36-37): 485-486. 1956 (portr.; la tumba del Sabio Mutis). - Gredilla, A. F., Biografia de José... Mutis, Madrid 1911, 713 p. (portr.). - Hagen, W. W. von, J. New York Bot. Gard. 49: 177-184, 210-218. 1948 ("the immortal botanist"). - Hernandéz de Alba, G., (ed.), Archivo epistolar del sabio naturalista José Celestino Mutis, vols. 1-4, Bogota 1947-1975. (1-2 repr. 1968), ssiv & 522, 346, 432, 334 p.; Diario de observaciones de José Celestino Mutis (1760-1790). Bogota, 2 vols., 1957-1958 (portr.), 1: xxix, 495 p., 2: xii, 715 p. - Hulth, J. M. & Uggla, A. H., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 196, 198. 1943. - Humboldt, A. v. & A.J. A. Bonpland, Pl. aequinoct. 1: frontisp. portr. Mutis. 1808. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134(suppl.): 18. 1922 (pl. LINN). - Jaramillo-Arango, J., J. Linn. Soc. London 53: *pl. 21*. 1949 (in a critical review "of the basic facts in the history of Cinchona"); Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. exact. fis. nat. 9(33-34): 14-31. 1953 (M. and the 18th century Spanish New World exped.). - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 467. 1864. - Keefe, R. F., Biologist 48: 53-54. 1966. - Killip, E. P., Estudio, Santander 3: 58-66. 1933 (identification of M. specimens). - Margadant, W. D., *in* G. H. M. Lawrence, Adanson 1: 334. 1963 (letters at HU). - Mendoza, D., Expeditión botánica de José Celestino Mutis... memorias ineditas de Francisco José de Caldas, Madrid 1909, p. 289 \[index\]. - Moldenke, H. N., Plant Life 2: 73. 1946 (1948) (epon.). - Muñoz Medina, D. J., Hist. desarr. bot. España 16-17. 1969. - Perez Arbelaez, E., ed., Libro conmemorativo del segundo centenario de don José... Mutis y Bosio 1732-1932. Bogota 1932 (1933), 272 p. (portr.); Ci. interamer. 8(1): 11-14. 1967 (M. and the "real expedición botánica".). - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 248. 1863. - Smith, J. E., Rees Cycl. 24(alph.). 1813. - Steele, A. R., Flowers for the king 370 \[index\]. 1964. - Umana, C. T., Rev. Acad. Colomb. Ci. exact. fis. nat. 11 (42): xxxvii-xli. 1960 (Humboldt y la escuela de Mutis). - Verdoorn, F., Fl. pl. sci. Latin America xxvi. 1945. - Vezga, F., La expedición botánica, Bogota 1936, p. 203-212. #### Handwriting Hernandez de Alba, G., Diario de observaciones de Jose Celestino Mutis 1: opp. p. 2/3. 1957. #### Eponymy *Mutisa* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Mutisia* Linneaus fil. (1782). #### Postage stamps Colombia 25 c. (1947) yv. 415 (left figure).