> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 203](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189674) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7585-1) LSID 7585-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680975) QID Q1680975 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Petiver, James (1658-1718), British botanist, entomologist and apothecary to the Charterhouse; demonstrator at Chelsea (1709), owner of an important natural history cabinet. **Abbreviated name**: *Petiver* \[standard form in IPNI: *Petiver*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]-SL; further specimens in [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]] and [[Collection P|P]]-JU. Petiver's collections were bought by Sir Hans Sloane in 1718. The herbaria number 106 *Horti sicci*. For a full account see Dandy. #### Manuscripts and drawings BM possesses (Banksian ms 88) "73 watercolour drawings of plants made at the Cape from living specimens for Dr. Martin Dolneus and given by him to J. Petiver; 67 of these were used by Petiver in the preparation of the plates for his "Gazophylacii Naturae... decas nona" and bear reference to those plates in his handwriting" (Woodward). BM also possesses Petiver's annotated copy of Rumpf's Herbarium amboinense. See also Edwards (1968). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 437-438; Barnhart 3: 75; BB p. 242; BM 4: 1557-1558 (extensive list contents *Opera*); Bret. p. 33; Clokie p. 223-224 (extensive inf.); Desmond p. 491-492; DNB 45: 85-86; Dryander 3: 13, 17, 75, 95-97, 130, 134, 176, 180, 183, 187, 209, 225, 446, 447, 464, 465; DU 224; Frank 3 (Anh.): 76; GR p. 409; HA 2: 24-26; HE p. 45; Hegi 3: 583; Herder p. 22, 29, 77; Henrey 1: 286 \[index\], 2: 733 \[index\], 3: 100-102 (nos. 1208-1225) (bibl., main treatment); Jackson p. 591 \[index; many titles!\]; Kew 4: 285; KR 1: 23, 28, 471, 524, 2: 506; Lasègue p. 10, 12, 324, 434, 496; Lenley p. 325; LS 20548-20551; ME 3: 385; MW p. 385; NI 1516-1522, suppl. p. 54; PR 1251, 7087-7089 (ed. 1: 7925-7942 (!); Quenstedt p. 335; Rehder 5: 664-665; SA 2: 591; Saccardo 1: 126, 2: 84; SK 4: lxxx, lxxxi, lxxxviii; Sotheby 595; TL-1/971; TL-2/see Bradley, R., Breyne, J., Buddie, A., Micheli, P.A.; Tucker 1: 551-552. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The Naturalist in Britain 289 \[index\]. 1976. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1571. 1870. - Apperson, G.L., Bygone London life 96-104. 1903. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 428 \[index\]. 1980. - Briquet, J. Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 369-370. 1940 (eponymy; author of first catalogue of plants found on the mountains about Geneva, 1709. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 88, 144-145, 203. 1969. - Copeman, W.S.C., Worshipful Soc. Apothecaries London 76-77. 1968. - Daggett, F.S., Auk 24: 448-449. 1907 (special copy of Gazophylacium). - Dandy, J.E., The Sloane herbarium 175-182. 1958 (coll.). - Darlington, W., Memorials 305. 1849. - Dolezal, H., Friedrich Welwitsch 143-144. 1974. - Drewitt, F.D., Apothec. Garden 105 \[index\]. 1922. - Edwards, P.I., J.S. Afr. Bot. 34: 243-253. 1968, J. Soc. bibl. nat. Hist. 8(4): 335-336. 1978 (on Petiver ills. of S. Afr. pl. in the Gazophylacium). - Ewan, J., Regn. veg. 71: 22, 25, 27-29, 50, 54. 1970 (P. and American botany). - Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 482 \[index\]. 1970 (many details, biogr., colls.). - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 277. 1980. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(5)" 260. 1911. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 295. 1977 (further biogr. refs.). - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenology Brit. Isl. 1568-1975, p. 4, 5, 133, 198. 1977. - Herder, F. v., Bot. Centralbl. 55: 259, 260. 1893 (Petiver material at LE). - Hindle, Brook, Pursuit sci. revol. Amer. 15, 16. 1956. - Howard, R.A., Bot. J. Linn. soc. 79: 71-74. 1979. - Horwood, A.R., Fl. Leicestershire clxxxvii. 1933. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 29, 33. 1922. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 240, 276, 284, 381. 1884. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 405-406. 1824. - Karsten, M.C., The old Company's Garden 71, 77, 81-87, 96. 1951. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 72. 1957; Hist. fl. Middlesex 14. 1975. - Lisney, A.A., Bibl. Brit. Lepidopt. 1609-1799, p. 42-44. 1960 (bibl., portr.). - Löwegren, I., Naturaliekabinett Sverige 58, 89. 1952. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 173. 1904 (coll.). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchili. 315-316. 1969. - Pax, F., Bibl. schles. Bot. 2. 1929. - Pearsall, W.H., Fl. Surrey 45-46. 1931. - Percheron, A., Bibl. entom. 1: 314-315. 1837. - Pulteney, R., Sketches 2: 31-43. 1790. - Reynolds, G.W., Aloes S. Africa 80. 1950 (identif. Aloes in Gazophylacium). - Richardson, R., Extr. lit. sci. corr. 48, 50, 73, 109, no. 1835. - Saccardo, P.A., J. Bot. 37: 227. 1899 (on his exsiccatae). - Saccardo, P.A. & A. Béguinot, Bull. Soc. bot. ital. 1901: 243-251. (P. as inventor of plantae exsiccatae). - Salmon, C.E., Fl. Surrey 45-46. 1931. - Séguier, J.F., Bibl. bot. 137-139. 1740. - Smith, J.E., in Rees, Cyclop. vol. 27 (alph.), Sel. corr. Linnaeus 2: 161-170. 1821. - Stafleu, F.A., Intr. Jussieu Gen. Pl., facs. repr. xxxi. 1964 (specimens in P-JU); Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 233. 1971. - Stearns, R.P., Proc. Amer. antiq. Soc. 62: 243-265. 1952 (1913) (James P., promotor of natural science). - Trimen, H. & W.T.T. Dyer, Fl. Middlesex 377-386. 1869. - Wilson, E.H., Plant hunting 1: 9, 2: 107. 1927. - Wolley-Dod, A.H., Fl. Sussex xxxvii-xxxviii. 1937 (on Journal to Hastings; Sloane ms no. 3340 at BM, transcribed in Phytologist 1862: 114.). - Woodward, B.B., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 28, 45. 1904 (mss., copy Rumphius). #### Handwriting J.E. Smith, Sel. corr. Linnaeus 2, 1821, (facs. pl.); Dandy, J.E., The Sloane herb. facs. no. 83; Clokie p. 279. #### Eponymy *Petivera* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Petiveria* Linnaeus (1753). #### Publications We refer to Henrey (1: 186 (index), 2: (index), 3: 100-102, bibl. nos. 1208-1225) for detailed treatment of Petiver's works. Dandy (1958) supplies many additional details in his account of the Petiver collections in the Sloane Herbarium. – The post-Linnaean issue of the original stock of folio's and separate issues (*Opera historiam naturalem spectantia* (1764, 1767) have no standing in botanical nomenclature and have to be regarded as pre-linnaean. An important critical bibliography of many Petiver items which are also of importance for botany is given by Lisney (1960).