> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 875](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190346) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8563-1) LSID 8563-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2898553) QID Q2898553 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Romans, Bernard (ca. 1720-1784), Dutch-born, English-naturalized, American patriot, surveyor and soldier; in Florida ca. 1760-1774, sometime as surveyor for the British government of West Florida; living in New York 1773-1775 as a writer; joined the American patriots in the rebellion against Great Britain 1775; captain in the Pennsylvania artillery 1776-1778; from 1778-1779 living in Wethersfield, Connecticut; working e.g. on a history of the Netherlands; captured by the British 1779, prisoner of war in England 1780-1783; died on the journey back to the United States. **Abbreviated name**: *Romans* \[standard form in IPNI: *Romans*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 175 (d. 1784); BB p. 261; CSP 5: 263; Desmond p. 529 (d. 1783); DNB 49: 180-181; ME 2: 10, 11, 3: 350 ("1720-1784"); Rehder 1: 317; Tucker 1: 605. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 1860. 1878 (bibl.). - Ewan, J., Southw. Louisiana J. 7: 9-10. 1967. - Patrick, R.W., Editor's preface and Introduction to Gainsville 1962 facsimile edition of B. Romans, Conc. nat. hist. Florida. - Smith, J.E., Sel. corr. Linnaeus 1: 896. 1821. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 313-314. 1888. ### Publications ##### n.9486. A concise natural history of East and West-Florida **Title** *A concise natural history of East and West-Florida*; containing an account of the natural produce of all the Southern part of British America, in the three kingdoms of nature, particularly the animal and vegetable. Likewise, the artificial produce now raised, or possible to be raised, and manufactured there, with some commercial and political observations in that part of the world; and a chorographical account of the same. To which is added, by way of appendix, plain and easy directions to navigators over the bank of Bahama, the coast of the two Floridas,... By Captain Bernard Romans... vol. 1. New York (Printed for the author) 1775. **Abbreviated title**: *Conc. nat. hist. Florida*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1775 n.v. A copy of the original issue is at the American Philosophical Society Library; our data stem from the 1962 facsimile, p. \[i-iv\], "\[1\]"-"\[4\]", "\[i\]"-"\[viii\]", \[1\]-342, \[5-6\], (i)-(lxxxiv), 3 maps, frontisp., *7 pl*., table. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1776, p. \[1\], engr. dedic, 3-4, \[1\]-342, *6 pl. Copies*: LC, NY, PH. *Facsimile ed*.: 1962, Florida facsimile & reprint series, Gainesville (University of Florida Press) 1962, with introduction by Rembert W. Patrick, p. \[i\]-lii, \[new introd.\], frontisp., \[i-ii\], \[1\]-342, \[1\], i-lxxxiv, appendix, map. *Copies*: HU, ILL (inf. D.P. Rogers), NY. *Reset edition*: 1961, introd. Louise Richardson, Pelican Publishing Company, New Orleans, frontisp., p. \[i-xx\], 1-291, 3 maps. *Copy*: US.