> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 612](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333751) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9686-1) LSID 9686-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2430593) QID Q2430593 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sims, John (1749-1831), British physician and botanist; MD Edinburgh 1774; studied at Leiden University 1773-1774; practicing physician in London from 1779. **Abbreviated name**: *Sims* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sims*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (purchased by G. Bentham 1829). – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 428, 5(3): 68; Backer p. 534; Barnhart 3: 281; BB p. 276; BM 4: 1930; Bossert p. 368; Bret. p. 201; CSP 5: 707; Desmond p. 561 (b. 13 Oct 1749, d. 26 Feb 1831); DNB 18: 281-282; Frank 3 (Anh.): 97; Herder p. 21; Hortus 3: 1204; Lasègue p. 529; MW p. 452-453, suppl. p. 323; PR (alph.), 2007, 4799, ed. 1: 2091, 5355; RS p. 142; TL-1/606; TL-2/1290, 3827; Tucker 1: 652; Zander ed. 11, p. 818. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print, books 222: 874. 1964; Gard. Chron. 1887(1): 641. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.326. 1980. - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 106-109. 1978(lists plates of S. Afr. pl. with text by Sims in Bot. Mag.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 451. 1880 (herb. K). - Dopson, L., The Praticioner 164: 156-170. 1950 (bicentenary, biogr. account). - Fletcher, H.R., Story R. Hort. Soc. 5, 34-35, 41, 55, 410. 1969. - Greene, S.W., J. Soc. Bibl. natl. Hist. 3: 319-320. 1958 (on Koenig & Sims, Ann. Bot.). - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 118. 1978. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 78. 1957 (herb. K). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 671. 1985. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 97. 1906 (on portr.). - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 227. 1981. - White, A. & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 20, 21, 81, 90, 91. 1933, ed. 2: 21 \[index\]. 1937. #### Composite works - (1) Editor, with Karl Dietrich Eberhard Koenig (1774-1851) of *Annals of Botany*, 2 vols., 1804-1806, see TL-2/3827. - (2) Editor, *The Botanical Magazine* 14-53, *pl. 469-2704*, 1800-1826, see TL-21290. #### Eponymy *Simsia* Persoon (1807); *Simsia* R. Brown (1810).