> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 13](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333170) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8852-1) LSID 8852-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733780) QID Q733780 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Salt, Henry (1780-1827), English traveller and Egyptologist; secretary to Lord Valentia in India and Africa 1802-1805; in Abyssinia 1805 and 1809-1810; in Moçambique 1809; consul-general for Gr. Britain in Egypt 1815-1827. **Abbreviated name**: *Salt* \[standard form in IPNI: *Salt*\] #### Herbarium and types Abyssinian plants at [[Collection BM|BM]] (worked up by R. Brown). Other material at [[Collection G|G]] and [[Collection MO|MO]]. Letters to J. Banks at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 204; BB p. 267; BM 4: 1793; Dawson p. 730-732; Desmond p. 538 (b. 14 Jun 1780, d. 30 Oct 1827); DNB 50: 212-213 (17: 701-702); Herder p. 58; Kew 4: 579-580; Lasègue p. 167-169, 301, 323, 504; Rehder 1: 487; RS p. 140; SO add. 8021; TL-1/1149; Tucker 1: 621. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 1918. 1878 (bibl.). - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 212: 45-46. 1964. - Blatter, E., Fl. Aden 2-5. 1914 (account visit Aden 1809); Rec. Bot. Surv. India 8(5): 462-463. 1933. - Bosworth, C.E., Bull. John Rylands Univ. Libr. Manchester 57(1): 69-91. 1974 (on Salt as a pioneer Egyptologist). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.286. 1980. - Candolle, A. de, Phytographie 446. 1880 (coll.). - Embacher, F., Lexikon Reisen 257. 1882. - Exell, A.W. & G.A. Hayes, Kirkia 1: 130-137. 1961 (biogr., itin.), 6(1): 100. 1967 (coll. Fl. Zarnbesiaca area). - Halls, J.J., The life and correspondence of Henry Salt, 2 vols. London 1834 (biogr., portr., corr.). - Hill, R., Biogr. dict. Sudan ed. 2. 331. 1967. - Hoefer, Nouv. biogr. gén. 43: 211-212. 1864. - McNaught, L., Apollo ser. 2. 108: 224-231. 1978 (contr. to Egypt. sculpture Brit. Mus.). - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 540. 1970 (Salt plants in Lambert sale). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 179. 1904 (pl. BM). - Newton, L.M., Phycol. Bull. 1: 18. 1952 (some algae sent to D. Turner at BM). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 743. 1863. - Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 283-286. 1911. - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. France 29: 189. 1882. (itin.). #### Eponymy *Saltia* R. Brown ex Moquin (1849). ### Publications ##### n.10.146. A voyage to Abyssinia **Title** *A voyage to Abyssinia*, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British Government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with vocabularies of their respective languages. Illustrated with a map of Abyssinia, numerous engravings, and charts... London (printed for F.C. and J. Rivington,...) 1814. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Voy. Abyss.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Sep 1814 (preface: 9 Jul 1814; P & W p. 512, RS), p. \[i\]-xi, \[xiii-xvi\], \[1\]-506, i-lxxv (appendix), 37 pl., charts, maps. *Copies*: F, HH, PH. – Part of Appendix 4 by Robert Brown: on p. lxiii-lxv, "*List of new and rare plants, collected in Abyssinia*..." The new names are almost exclusively *nomina nuda*. The list is reproduced in Flora 4(1), Beil. 2: 61-64. Jan-Jun 1821. *German transl*.: 1815 (p \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-480, map. *Copy*: NSUB (inf. G. Wagenitz). – *Neue Reise nach Abyssinien* in den Jahren 1809 und 1810. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit einigen Anmerkungen begleitet, von Friedrich Rühs. Weimar (im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs) 1815. Oct., p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-480, map. – On p. 474-478: list of new and rare plants (by R. Brown). – See also E. de Berg, Add. ad Thes. lit. bot. 31. 1859. *French* "*version*": 1812, 2 vols., *Voyage en Abyssinie*, par Mr. Salt, traduit de l'Anglais et extrait des voyages de bord Valentia... À Paris (chez J.J. Paschoud,...) et à Genève (chez le même Imprimeur-Libraire) 1812, 2 vols. (*Voy. Abyss.*). *Copy*: H. *1*: 1812, p. \[1\]-304. *2*: 1812, p. \[1\]-272, *pl. 1-9.* *Note*: This is not an earlier version of Salt's *Voy. Abyss.* of 1814 but rather the French version of its predecessor: Voyages and travels to India... Abyssinia, and Egypt... by George Viscount Valentia \[G. Annesly, Earl of Mountnorris\], which contains in vols. 2 and 3, 1809, H. Salt's *Narrative of an Expedition to Abyssinia*, London 1809. Qu.