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### Author
Neill, Patrick (1776-1851), Scottish publisher and botanist at Edinburgh; founder and longtime secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society and Wernerian Society.
**Abbreviated name**: *Neill* \[standard form in IPNI: *Neill*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection E|E]] ("presumably", Hedge & Lamond 1970), [[Collection DBN|DBN]], algae in herb. Greville at [[Collection E|E]]; letters at [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection LINN|LINN]] (J. E. Smith corr.).
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 429, 6(1): 8; Backer p. 391; Barnhart 2: 543; BB p. 227; BM 3: 1409, 7: 907; CSP 4: 587-588, 12: 535; Dawson p. 632; Desmond p. 461; DNB 40: 178-179; GR p. 408; Hawksworth p. 125; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Neill"); IH 2: (in press); Kew 4: 125; PR ed. 1: 7448; Quenstedt p. 310; Rehder 5: 612; SO 2655; Tucker 1: 514.
- Allibone, S. A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1407. 1870.
- Anon., Bot. Zeit.9: 798-799. 1851, 10: 647. 1852; Flora 34: 771. 1851 (d. 3 Sep 1851); Gard. Chron. 1851: 567, 663-664 (obit.); Österr. bot. Z. 1: 387. 1851 (d. 3 Sep 1851).
- Balfour, I. B., Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 3: 94-96. 1904.
- Brewster, D., J. Bot. 1: 96. 1863 (on Neill medal).
- Brotherston, P. P., Gard. Chron. ser.3. 73: 320-321. 1923 (centenary publ. "*Tour*" \[name consistently err. Niell\]).
- Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 71. 1934.
- Fletcher, H. R., R. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 71, 72, 74, 79, 81, 84, 85, 99, 138, 144. 1970.
- Hedge, I. C., & J. M. Lamond, Index Coll. Edinb. herb. 113. 1970 (Dr. Neill, herb. 3-4000 species, said to be presumably Patrick Neill).
- Nelson, E. C, Glasra 4: 57. 1980 (coll. ex. E at DBN).
- Newton, L., Phycol. Bull. 1: 17. 1952.
- Spence, M., Flora orcad. xlv-xlvii. 1914.
- Veendorp, H. & L. G. M. Baas Becking, Hortusacad. Lugd.-bat. 112, 132, 136, 137. 1938.
- Wallace, R. H., Gard. Chron. 1902: 297-298.
#### Eponymy
*Neillia*D. Don (1825).
### Publications
##### n.6719. Journal of a horticultural tour
**Title**
*Journal of a horticultural tour*through some parts of Flanders, Holland and the North of France, in the autumn of 1817. By a deputation of the.aledonian Horticultural Society. Edinburgh (printed for Bell & Bradfate), London (... Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown) 1823. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Journ. hort. tour*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1823 (p. x: 2 Dec 1822), p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-574, \[I, err.\], *pl. 1-5*, \[*5a*\] (uncol.). *Copy*:NY.