> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 598](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333737) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9641-1) LSID 9641-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817692) QID Q817692 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864), American chemist and geologist; graduated from Yale College 1796; professor of chemistry and natural history ib. 1802-1864 (from 1853 emeritus); founder of the American Journal of Science (1818). **Abbreviated name**: *Silliman* \[standard form in IPNI: *Silliman*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 278 (b. 8 Aug 1779, d. 24 Nov 1864); BM 4: 1925, 8: 1191; Bossert p. 366; CSP 5: 694-697, 8: 954, 12: 682; DAB 17: 160-163; DSB 12: 432-434 (bibl.); Lenley p. 469; ME 1: 230, 3: 655; Merrill p. 711-731; PH p. 528 \[index\]; Quenstedt p. 398; SIA (index); TL-2/797. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2101. 1878. - Anon. Amer. J. Pharm. 37: 77-78. 1865 (obit.); Amer. J. Sci. 50: frontisp. 1847 (portr.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 222: 348-349. 1964; Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 2: 385-386. 1921; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 555. 1967. - Caswell, A., Annual Natl. Acad. Sci. 1866: 111-125. 1867; Biogr. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1: 99-112. 1879 (biogr.). - Clarke, J.M., James Hall of Albany 564 \[index\] 1923. - Dana, E.S. et al., A century of science in America 23-25, 2 portr. 1918. - Dana, J.D., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 39: 1-9. 1865, Canad. Natural. 1: 461-469. 1864 (obit.). - Elliot, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 236-237. 1979. - Ewan, J., Trans. Stud. Coll. Phys. Philadelphia ser. 5. 5(4): 313-314. 1983. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S.A. 39, 98. 1969. - Fenton, C.L. & M.A., Giants of geology, New York 1952, p. 133-136. - Fisher, G., Life of Benjamin Silliman, 2 vols. London 1866, 815 p. - Fulton, J.F. & E.H. Thomson, Benjamin Silliman 1774-1864, pathfinder in American science, New York 1968, xi, 294 p. (detailed biogr., sec. refs., portr.). - Gilman, D.C, *in* D.S. Jordan, Leading American men of Science 89-117. 1910. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 478. 1967 (index). - Kelly, H.A., Cycl. Amer. med. biogr. 2: 373-374. 1912; Amer. med. biogr. 1052-1053. 1920. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 931. 1863, 3: 1247. 1898 (bibl.). - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 357. 1940 (index), John Torrey 349. 1942 (index). - Rossiter, M.W., New England Quart. 44(4): 602-626. 1971 (S. and the Lowell Inst.). - Scott Barr, E., Amer. J. Physics 32(4): 296-298. 1964 (gen. biographical). - Sinnott, E.W., Science 108: 227-229. 1948 (on S. and the Amer. J. Sci.). - Thorns, H., The doctors of Yale College 1702-1815, Hamden, Conn. 1960), 123-127. - Warren, H., Sci. Mon. 67: 58-60. 1948 (on Silliman and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale). - Youmans, W.J., Pioneers of science in America 140-151. 1896. #### Composite works Founder and editor of *American Journal of Science*, vols. 1-ser. 2, 38, 1818-1864. #### Handwriting J.F. Fulton & E.H. Thompson (1968), pl. facing. p. 18. #### Eponymy *Sillimania* Unger (1850).