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### Author
Smuts, Jan Christiaan (1870-1950), South-African statesman, soldier, philosopher and amateur botanist; studied literature and science at the University of Cape of Good Hope and law at Christ's College, Cambridge; lawyer at Cape Town 1895-1897; state attorney of the Transvaal 1898; later in the South African army, in politics and prime minister of S. Africa 1919-1924, deputy prime minister 1933-1939, prime minister 1939-1948.
**Abbreviated name**: *Smuts* \[standard form in IPNI: *Smuts*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection PRE|PRE]]; further material at [[Collection BOL|BOL]] and [[Collection STE|STE]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 297; BL 1: 59, 319; BM 8: 1210; Bossert p. 375; DNB 1941-1950: 797-804 (A.M. Keppel-Jones); Tucker 3: 287.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Biography Index 1: 884, 2: 908, 3: 886, 4: 779, 5: 672, 6: 550, 7: 623-624, 8: 635, 9: 660, 10: 709, 10: 236, 11: 732 (numerous bigr. refs.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 225: 47-50. 1964; Grand Larousse encycl. 9: 867. 1964; Kew Bull. 1950: 388. 1951 (Smuts and Kew); Who's who (London)) 1912-1950; Who was who (London) 4: 1075-1076. 1941-1950.
- Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. no. 1978.
- Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 326-327. 1981 (portr., details on plant collecting).
- Hutchinson, J., Botanist S. Afr. 243. 1946 (portr.).
- Levyns, M.R.B., Insnar'd with flowers 206 \[index\]. 1977.
- Poel, J. v.d. and S.I.M. Duplessis, *in* Suid-Afr. biogr. woordenboek 1: 769-792. 1968 (extensive biogr. with many biogr. references), also S. Afr. biogr. Dict. 1: 737-758. 1968 (id.); \[v.d. Poel:\] Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. 10: 15-23. 1974.
- Rosenthal, E., S. Afr. Dict. natl. Biogr. 350-352. 1966.
- Tölken, H.R., Index herbariorum austro-africanorum 64. 1971 (coll.).
- Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 367. 1935, 2: 264. 1936, 3: 231. 1937, 5: 35. 1939, 7: 357. 1943.
- Waverley, Obit. Not. Fell. Roy. Soc. 21(8): 271-272. 1952.
#### Postage stamps
South Africa 4 c. (1975), yv. 383.
### Publications
##### n.12.316. Holism and evolution
**Title**
*Holism and evolution*... New York (The Macmillan Company) 1926. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Holism evol.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Sep 1926, p. \[i\]-\[xi\], \[1\]-362. *Copies*: George Washington Univ., Univ. Illinois.
*Facsimile ed*.: 1973, Westport, Conn., ISBN 0-8371-6556-3 (n.v.).