> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 153](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189624) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7490-1) LSID 7490-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545123) QID Q545123 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798). British zoologist and antiquary; sheriff of Flintshire; gentleman-naturalist; correspondent of Linnaeus. **Abbreviated name**: *Pennant* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pennant*\] #### Herbarium and types all natural history coll., incl. fossils, at [[Collection BM|BM]], Letters at [[Collection LINN|LINN]], Chester Public Library, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Queen's College Oxford. – Forty-four of the letters making up Gilbert White's *The natural history and antiquities of Selborne* were written to Pennant. – The manuscript of the *Flora indica* (Outlines Globe 4) is at [[Collection A|A]]. A collection of \[animal\] fossils is at [[Collection BM|BM]]. – Some letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography BB p. 240-241 (b. 14 Jun 1726, d. 16 Dec 1798); BM 8: 996-997; Bossert p. 305; Dawson p. 660-664; Desmond p. 487; DNB 44: 320-323; DSB 10: 509-510 (bibl.); Henrey 2: 26, 157, 158; Kew 4: 267; ME 3: 350; NI 1: 118; Quenstedt p. 333; Rehder 5: 658; SK 4: xcv; TL-1/687, 960; TL-2/4522, see Kalm, P.; Tucker 1: 547. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 24, 36, 53, 67, 95, 215. 1976; Newsletter Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 13: 11-12. 1982 (calendar papers). - Allen, E.G., The history of American ornithology before Audubon, 1951 (Trans. Amer. philos. Soc. ser. 2. 41(3)), see p. 589 \[index\]. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1553-1554. 1870 (bibl.). - Archer, H.R., Huntia 1: 204-209. 1964 (P's copy of Kalm's *Travels*). - Berkeley, E. & D.S., Dr. Alexander Garden 377 \[index\]. 1969; Dr. John Mitchell 96-97. 1974. - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 154, 180. 1971. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 428 \[index\]. 1980. - Cameron, H.C., Sir Joseph Banks 5, 16, 58. 1952. - Cuvier, G., Biogr. univ. 33: 315-318. 1823. - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 73. 1934. - Fletcher, H.R., Royal Bot. Garden Edinburgh 94. 1970. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 275-276. 1980. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5): 203. 1911, 1(6): 194, 204. 1912. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 292. 1977. - Gunther, R.W.T., Early Science in Oxford 11: 131-132. 1937 (fide DSB). - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isles 132. 1977. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 377, 378, 387, 388, 401. 1916. - Lada-Mocarski, V., Bibl. books Alaska 144. 1969 (on "Arctic zoology"). - McAtee, W.L., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 4(2): 100-124. 1963 (N. Amer. birds). - Matheson, C., Ann. Sci. 10(3): 258-271. 1954 (portr., corr. with Morris brothers). - Merrill, E.D., J. Arnold Arb. 29: 186-192. 1918 (on the manuscript of Pennant's *Flora indica* published in his *Outlines of the Globe* 4: 237-317. 1800; list of the new binomials). - Moore, S., Fl. Cheshire lxxxvi. 1899. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 312. 1969 (b. 14 Jan 1726, d. 16 Dec 1798; zool. bibl.). - O., Dict. sci. méd. 6: 387-389. 1824. - Pennant, T., The literary life of the late Thomas Pennant, Esq. by himself. London 1793 (fide DSB). - R.B.N., Geol. Mag. Dec 5. 10(4): 192. 1913 (on P's collection of fossils at BM). - Rose, H.J., New general biographical dictionary 11: 23-25. 1850. - Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 344 \[index\]. 1911. - Smith, P., Mem. corr. J.E. Smith 1: 300, 448-449. 1832. - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 288-291. 1840. - Urness, C., A naturalist in Russia 187 \[index\]. 1967 (Urness also contr. entry in DSB). - Zittel, K.A. von, Hist. geol. paeontol. 114. 1901. #### Eponymy *Pennanta* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Pennantia* J.R. Forster et J.G.A. Forster (1776). ### Publications ##### n.7634. The view of the Malayan Isles **Title** *The view of the Malayan Isles*, New Holland, and the Spicy Islands... vol. iv. London (... sold by John White,...) 1800. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *View Malay. Isl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1800. *Copy*: E. – Alternative title: Outlines of the Globe vol. 14, *Flora indica* on p. 237-317. For a detailed discussion see Merrill (1948).