> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 257](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189728) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7677-1) LSID 7677-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3133011) QID Q3133011 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Piddington, Henry (1797-1858), British meteorologist and botanist; commander in the mercantile marine; from circa 1800 curator of the Museum of economic geology and coroner at Calcutta. **Abbreviated name**: *Piddington* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pidd.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note Piddington introduced (1848) the term and concept "cyclone" for disturbances (winds) with a whirling or circular course. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 444; Barnhart 3: 84; BB p. 243; BM 4: 1574; CSP 4: 904-905; Desmond p. 494; DNB 45: 256-257; Herder p. 211; Kew 4: 306; Jackson p. 383; PR 7140 (ed. 1: 8015); Rehder 5: 672; SO 842bg; Tucker 1: 557. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1592. 1870. - Anon., *in* Balfour, E., ed., Cycl. India 3: 210. 1885. - Stewart, R.R., Taxon 31(1): 60. 1982. #### Eponymy *Piddingtonia* A.P. de Candolle (1839). ### Publications ##### n.7918. An English index to the plants of India **Title** *An English index to the plants of India*... Calcutta (printed at the Baptist Mission Press,...) 1832. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Index pl. India*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1832, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-235. *Copies*: G, NY, USDA. ##### n.7919. A tabular view of the generic characters in Roxburgh's Flora indica **Title** *A tabular view of the generic characters in Roxburgh's Flora indica*... Calcutta (printed at the Baptist Mission Press,...) 1836. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Tab. gen. char.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1836 (pref. 30 Oct 1836), p. \[i\]-xi, \[xii\], \[1\]-156. *Copy*: NY. – Issued *in* Journal of the Asiatic Society, useful tables part iii, 1836 (xii, 156 p.); appendix to volume for 1836).