> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 785](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333924) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9956-1) LSID 9956-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125084) QID Q125084 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864), British soldier and explorer; entered the Royal Army 1844; in East Africa 1854; in the Crimean War 1855; again in East Africa 1857-1859 with R.F. Burton and 1860-1863 with J.A. Grant. **Abbreviated name**: *Speke* \[standard form in IPNI: *Speke*\] #### Herbarium and types The material collected by J.A. Grant on the Speke and Grant expedition of 1860-1863 is at [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Herder p. 219; DNB 18: 732-735; NI alph.; PR 8816; Rehder 1: 488; TL-2/7057; Tucker 1: 663, 3: 291. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2195-2196. 1878 (bibl.). - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 227: 273-274. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 176: 416-417. 1949; Horizon 14: 57-63. 1972. - Baker, J.N.L., Geogr. J. 128(4): 385-388. 1962 (portr., biogr. sketch). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 137-10, 274.23, 274.42. 1980. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 274. 1882. - Hayward, A.L., Explorers and their discoveries 166-179. 1955. - Hopkins, K., Great moments in exploration 77-89. 1957 (journey source Nile). - Irwin, D., J. East Africa nat. Hist. Soc. 23(4): 172-174. 1959. - Kamm, J., Explorers into Africa 111-129. 1970. - Lambert, R.S., The world's most daring explorers 131-138. 1956. - Maitland, A., Speke, London 1971, 245 p. (portr., biogr.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1271-1272. 1898. - Seth, R., Milestones in African history 78-86. 1969. - Vallot, J., Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 193. 1882. #### Composite works See D. Oliver, *The botany of the Speke and Grant expedition*, 1873-1875, TL-2/7057. ### Publications ##### n.12.597. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile **Title** *Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile*... Edinburgh and London (William Blackwood and Sons) 1863. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *J. discov. source Nile*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: Dec 1863 (p. \[iii\]: Dec 1863), portr., p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[1\]-658, *18 pl. Copies*: G, NY. – List of plants on p. 625-658: "*List of plants collected by Captain Grant* (James Augustus Grant (1827-1892)\] *between Zanzibar and Cairo*. This unique collection... has been arranged at Kew by Dr Thomson,... \[signed:\] J.H. Speke". *New York ed*.: 1864, p. \[i-iv\], portr., \[v\]-xxx, map, \[1\]-590, map. *Copy*: PH. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1864, frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxx, map, \[31\]-590. *Copy*: MO. – List of plants on p. 561-590. Not indicated as a second edition. New York (Harper and Brothers,...) 1864. – Another second edition, Edinburgh 1864, is mentioned by Tucker. *Ed. 2* (*alt.*): 1864, portr., p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[1\]-658, map. *Copy*: HH. – List of plants on p. 625-658. *Facsimile ed. of ed. 1* (*Edinburgh*): 1969, Westport. Conn. (Greenwood), ISBN 0-8371-1431-4.