> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 442](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189913) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8022-1) LSID 8022-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378093) QID Q1378093 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Pulteney, Richard (1730-1801), British physician, naturalist and historian of science; MD Edinburgh 1764, FRS 1762; surgeon at Leicester and (from 1865) at Blandford. **Abbreviated name**: *Pult.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Pult.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (unlocalised); some lichens at [[Collection CGE|CGE]] and [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. – [[Collection BM|BM]] possesses the autograph copy of the Catalogue of Plants... Loughborough (Banksian ms. 90), a mss (no. 26) key to Rheede's *Flora Malabarica*, the autograph copy of the *Catalogue of English plants* and an unpublished *Flora anglica abbreviata* (see BM 4: 1622). Letters at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]] and Fitzwilliam Mus. Cambridge. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 202, 208; Barnhart 3: 115; BB p. 250; BM 4: 1622, 8: 1037; Bossert p. 319; CSP 5: 42; Desmond p. 507 (b. 17 Feb 1730, d. 13 Oct 1801); DNB 47: 26-28; Dryander 3: 6, 137, 180, 250, 357, 416, 476, 548, 5: 83; Henrey 2: 736 \[index\], 3: 104 (nos. 1245-1248); Herder p. 70, 73; IH 2: (in press); Jackson p. 4, 251, 255; Kew 4: 375; Langman p. 598; Lasègue p. 323, 517; LS 21472-21472a; NI 1: 61, 110, 257; Plesch p. 369; PR 7364-7367 (ed. 1: 8252-8254); Rehder 5: 694; SO see index p. 44; Sotheby 617; TL-1/104; TL-2/3058, see W.G. Maton; Tucker 1: 13, 572-573. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 22, 39, 42, 49. 1976. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1705. 1870 (bibl.). - Anon., J. Bot. 9: 31. 1871 (on mss. at LINN); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1888/1890: 39. 1891 (on portr. by S. Beach). - Baines, J.A., Vict. Natural. 90: 249. 1973 (epon.). - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 118, 176, 206. 1971. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 430 \[index\]. 1980. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 441. 1880 (coll.). - Cox, L.R., Proc. malacol. Soc. 24: 121-124. 1940 (on P's Dorset cretac. mollusca). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 75-76. 1934 (corr. at LINN); Banks letters 689-690. 1918. - Ewan, J. & N., John Banister 85, 95-96, 104. 1970. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 288. 1980. - Hawksworth, D.L. & M.R.D. Seaward, Lichenol. Brit. Isl. 8, 135, 148. 1977 (bibl., mss.). - Horwood, A.R. & C.W.F. Noel, Fl. Leicestershire clxxxix-cxciv. 1933 (portr., "the pioneer of Leicestershire botany", bibl., mss.). - Jeffers, R.H., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 171: 15-26. 1960 (P. and his correspondents; on letters at LINN). - Jessen, K.F.W., Gegenw. Vorz. 187, 361. 1864. - Jourdan, A. J.L., Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. med. 6: 512-513. 1824 (bibl.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 74. 1957 (herb. at BM, unlocalized). - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 90-91. 1906. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 175. 1904 (herb. purchased 1863). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 326. 1969 (no. 3250). - Rose, H.J., New biogr. dict. 11: 250. 1850 (fide P. Gilbert, Biogr. Lit. Entom. 1977, p. 305). - Sherborn, C.D., Where is the.... collection 111. 1940 (zool. specimens). - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 18. 1981. - Williams, F.N., J. Bot. 57: 100. 1919 (on P. and *Fl. lond.*). - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 97. 1903. - Woodward, B.B., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 28, 44. 1904 (mss.). #### Eponymy *Pultenaea* J.E. Smith (1794). ### Publications ##### n.8397. de Cinchona officinali **Title** Dissertatio medica inauguralis, *de Cinchona officinali* Linnaei; sive cortice peruviano: quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson,... Academiae Edinburgenae praefecti; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae Facultatis medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite ex legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Ricardus Pulteney, R.S.S. Britannus. Ad diem \[\] Maii, hora locoque solitis... Edinburgi (Typis Academicis) 1764. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Cinch. off.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1764, 60 p., *1 pl. Copy*: HU. ##### n.8398. A general view of the writings of Linnaeus **Title** *A general view of the writings of Linnaeus*... London (printed for T. Payne,... and B. White...) 1781. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. view writ. Linnaeus*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1781, p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-425, \[426\]. *Copies*: MO, NY. – SO 33a. *Ed. 2*: 1805 (portr. Linn. publ. 16 Mar 1805), frontisp., \[i\]-xv, *pl*. facing p. \[1\], \[1\]-595, *pl*. facing p. 112, 502 and typogr. table facing p. 578. *Copies*: HU, LC, MO, PH, UC, WU; IDC 7726. – SO 33b. – Second edition, with... Memoirs of the author by W.G. Maton. To which is annexed the diary of Linnaeus, written by himself and now translated into English. \[William George Maton (1774-1835)\]. Translation of Linnaean diary by Carl Troilius. *French translation*: 1789, *1*: \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-386, *2*: \[i-iii\], \[1\]-400, chart. *Copies*: B, BR, FI, MO. SO 33c, 2609. *Revue générale des écrits de Linné*:... traduit de l'anglais, par L.A. \[Louis Aubin\] Millin de Grandmaison \[1759-1819\] avec des notes et des additions du traducteur... Londres \[London\] & se trouve à Paris \[Chez Buisson,...) 1789, 2 vols. Oct. (*Rev. gén. écrits Linn.*). ##### n.8399. Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England **Title** *Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England* from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean system... London (printed from T. Cadell,...) 1790. Oct. 2 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. sketches Bot. Engl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1790 (p. v: 28 Feb 1790; sends copies to Smith and others on 13 Mai 1790; letter to Banks 2 Mar 1790; not yet out, 10 Apr 1790 sends advance copy, index not yet printed). *Copies*: MO, NY, UC, USDA. *1*: \[i\]-xvi, \[1-4\], \[1\]-360. *2*: \[i-viii\], \[1\]-352, \[1-32, index\], \[1-2, err.\]. *German*: 1798, D. Richard Pulteney's... *Geschichte der Botanik* bis auf die neuern Zeiten, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf England. Für Kenner und Dilettanten. Aus dem Englischen mit Anmerkungen versehen von D. Karl Gottlob Kühn,... Leipzig (in der Weygandschen Buchhandlung) 1798. 2 vols. Oct. (*Gesch. Bot. England*). *Copies*: H, WU. *1*: \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-260. *2*: \[261\]-566. *French*: 1809. *Esquisses historiques et biographiques des progrès de la botanique en Angleterre*, depuis son origine jusqu'à l'adoption du systême de Linnée;... Paris (de l'Imprimerie de Cellot... Chez Maradan...) 1809. Oct. 2 vols. (*Esq. hist. bot. Angleterre*). *Copies*: B, BR, FI, G, MO, NY. *1*: \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-374. *2*: \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-365. ##### n.8400. Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire **Title** *Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire*. From the new and enlarged edition of Mr. Hutchins's history of that county... London (printed by J. Nichols, for the use of the compiler and his friends) 1799. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. birds, pl. Dorsetshire*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1799, p. \[i\], \[1\]-92, portr. (plants on p. 55-92). *Copies*: HU, LINN; IDC 2503. *Ed. 2*: Jan-Mai 1813, iv, 110 p., 23 engr. on 12 pl., portr. *Copy*: K. – "Catalogues... with additions and a brief memoir of the author... London (printed by and for Nichols, Son, and Bentley,...) 1813. Fol. – Botany on p. 61-106; published in J. Hutchins, Hist. antiq. County Dorset ed. 2, vol. 3. See Nissen (Zool. Buchill. 3250) and Cox (1960). *Ref*.: Cox, L.R., Proc. malac. Soc. 24: 121-124. 1940 (on cretaceous mollusca).