> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 732](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190203) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/35201-1) LSID 35201-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607115) QID Q21607115 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rennie, Robert (x-1820), British (Scottish) clergyman and botanist, minister of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire. **Abbreviated name**: *Rennie* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rennie*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography BM 4: 1681; Dawson p. 702; De Toni 1: cvi; Kew 4: 450; PR 7544, ed. 1: 8492. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A. Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 1773. 1878. - Zittel, K.A. von, Hist. geol. palaeontol. 240. 1901. ### Publications ##### n.9077. Essays on the natural history and origin of peat moss **Title** *Essays on the natural history and origin of peat moss*: the peculiar qualities of that substance; the means of improving it as a soil; the methods of converting it into a manure; and the other economical purposes to which it may be made subservient. By the rev. R. Rennie, Kilsyth, Edinburgh (printed by George Ramsay & Co. for Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh;...) 1807. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essays nat. hist. peat moss*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct-Dec 1807 (p. \[iii\]: 1 oct 1807), p. \[i\]-vii, \[1\]-233, \[234, err.\]. *Copies*: E, NY. – "This is, despite its title, an inspired and far-seeing essay on British vegetational history". J. Edmondson in litt. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1810, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-665. *Copies*: E (Univ. Libr.), MO-Steere. – Edinburgh (printed by George Ramsay & Co. for the author; and sold by...) 1810. Oct. *Abridged version*: Massachusetts Agricultural Journal. *Reprinted* s.l.n.d. p. \[1\]-32. *Copy*: PH.