> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 576](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333715) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9604-1) LSID 9604-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18764259) QID Q18764259 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sibree, James (1836-1929), British missionary and naturalist; educated at Hull Collegiate College; surveyor Board of Health 1859-1863; architect of memorial churches in Madagascar 1863-1867; trained for congregational ministry, Birmingham 1868-1870; missionary in Madagascar with the London Missionary Society until 1915. **Abbreviated name**: *Sibree* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sibree*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 271; BM 4: 1920, 8: 1190; Desmond p. 558 (b. 14 Apr 1836, d. 6 Sep 1929); Rehder 1: 496, 5: 797; Tucker 1: 649, 3: 280. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 1343. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 221: 866-867. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. Bibl. natl. 172: 279-281. 1948; Who's who London 1903-1929; Who was who, London 3: 1234. 1929-1940. #### Composite works Antananarivo annual and Madagascar Magazine, edited by J. Sibree ... nos. 1-23, 1875-1899. ### Publications ##### n.11.932. The great African Island **Title** *The great African Island* Chapters on Madagascar. A popular account of recent researches in the physical geography, geology, and exploration of the country; and its natural history and botany; and in the origin and divisions, customs and language and practices of the different tribes. Together with illustrations of scripture and early church history from native statistics and missionary experience... London (Trübner & Co.,...) 1880. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Great Afr. Isl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1880 (p. vii: Nov 1879), p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xii, \[1\]-372, *5 pl. Copies*: LC, MO, Univ. Illinois. – Botany on p. 69-101. *Facsimile repr*.: 1969, Westport, Conn., ISBN 0-8371-1642-2. *Ref*.: Anon., J. Bot. 21: 125. 1883.