> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 824](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333963) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10006-1) LSID 10006-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182495) QID Q3182495 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stackhouse, John (1742-1819), British botanist and botanical artist; gentleman of private means dedicating himself mainly to botany on his Pendarves estates 1763-1804; from 1804 in retirement at Bath. **Abbreviated name**: *Stackh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Stackh.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]]; some material also at [[Collection K|K]] (but algae on loan at [[Collection BM|BM]]), [[Collection CN|CN]] (see Dixon 1962) and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Drawings and letters to J.E. Smith at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 53: 441-462; Backer p. 546; Barnhart 3: 313 (d. 22 Nov 1819); BB p. 285-286; BM 5: 1997-1998; Bossert p. 380; Clokie p. 247; Desmond p. 579; De Toni 1: xcviii; DNB 18: 849-850; Dryander 3: 223, 654; Frank 3 (Anh.): 99; GR p. 381, cat. p. 72; Henrey 2: 742 \[index\], 3: 1380-1383; Herder p. 254, 418; IH 2: (files); Jackson p. 22, 242; Lasègue p. 544; Moebius p. 84; NI 1885; PR 8888-8891, 6987, 9198-9203, ed. 1: 7810, 9860-9862, 10164, 10167; Rehder 5: 819; RS p. 143; SO 798a; TL-2/7522. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2217. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 228: 150-151. 1964; Trans. Woolhope Natural. Field Club 34: 236-237. 1954. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 213.11, 255.139, 255.251. 1980. - Davey, F.H., Fl. Cornwall xxxv-xxxvi. 1909 (repr. 1978). - Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 88. 1934. - Dickinson, C.I., Phycol. Bull. 1: 13. 1952 (algae coll. at K, herb. BM). - Dixon, P., Brit. phycol. Bull. 2(3): 162-164. 1962. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 79. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 249. 1984. - Koster, J.Th., Taxon 18: 558. 1969 (alg. coll.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index to personal names vols. 1-30, 693. 1985. - Roberts, W., Gard. Chron. 1899(2): 237 (S. and Acton Castle). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 188. 1936. #### Composite works - (1) Theophrasti Eresii de *Historia plantarum* libri decern, Graece. Cum syllabo generum et specierum, glossario et notis. Curante Joh. Stackhouse,... Oxonii \[Oxford\] (excudebat S. Collingwood...), 2 vols. 1813-1814. *Copy*: USDA. – See Henrey 1425. #### Eponymy *Stackhousia* J.E. Smith (1798); *Stackhousia* J.V.F. Lamouroux ex S. Leman (1827). ### Publications ##### n.12.728. Nereis brittanica **Title** *Nereis brittanica*; continens species omnes fucorum in insulis britannicis crescentium: descriptione latine et anglico, necnon iconibus ad vivum depictis... Bathoniae \[Bath\] (typis S. Hazard: sumptibus auctoris), Londini (prost. venal.: apud J. White,...) \[1795-\] 1801. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Nereis brit.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in 3 parts, 1795-1801 (or 1802?), p. \[i\* Latin t.p.; iii\*, English t.p.\], \[i\]-xxxix, \[xl\], 1-112, *pl. 1-17* (col. copp.), appendix \[1-4\], *pl. A-G* (plates A-E and G are water colours; pl. F is an etching), \[1-3, index, err.\]. *Copies*: G, MICH, MO, NY, PH, Teyler, USDA. – English t.p.: "*Nereis britannica*; containing all the species of Fuci, native of the British coasts: with a description in English and Latin, and plates coloured from Nature". *Fasc. 1*: 1795 (p. vii: 23 Apr 1795), p. \[i\]-viii, 1-30, *pl. 1-8.* *Fasc. 2*: 1797 (p. xviii: 25 Sep 1797), p. ix-xxiv, 31-70, *pl. 9-13*. *Fasc. 3*: 1802, p. xxv-xl, 71-112, 1-4, 1-3, *pl. 13-17, pl. A-G* (listed in Gent. Mag. Nov 1802). *Fascicle t.p.*'*s*: the copies at G and NY have t.p.'s of fasc. 1 with contents. – See also notes in Henrey 1382. *Editio altera*: 1816 (Stackhouse sent a copy to W.J. Hooker on 1 Aug 1816), p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-68, *pl. 1-20* (uncol. copp., undated). *Copies*: BR, FH, NY, PH. – "Editio altera. Nova addita classificatione cryptogamiarum \[sic\] respectu generis Fuci". Oxonii \[Oxford\] (excudebat S. Collingwood) 1816. Qu. – Rev. K. Sprengel Neu. Entd. 1: 92-98. 1820. *Extracta ex praefatione Nereidis botanicae*,... ed. 2: pamphlet, s.l.n.d., p. \[i\]-vii. *Copy*: G (p. ii: 12 Jan 1816). ##### n.12.729. Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum **Title** 8. *Tentamen marino-cryptogamicum*, ordinem novum, in genera et species distributum, in classe xxivta Linnaei sistens. Auctore Ioanne Stackhouse. Esq. \[Mém. Soc. natural. Moscou 2, 1809\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1809, Mem. Soc. natural. Moscou 2: \[50\]-97, *pl. 5-6* (uncol. copp.). 1809. – *Copies*: FH; IDC 1510. ##### n.12.730. Illustrationes Theophrasti **Title** *Illustrationes Theophrasti* in usum botanicorum praecipue peregrinantium... Oxonii \[Oxford\] (e typographeo Clarendoniano) 1811. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. Theophr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811, portr., p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-83, 1 pl. (uncol. copp.), tabula systematica, Linneana, plantarum Theophrasti p. \[1\]-91, \[92\]. *Copies*: KU, NY. *Critical commentary*: J.J. Paulet \[1740-1826\], *Examen d'un ouvrage* qui a pour titre: Illustrationes Theophrasti... Paris, 1816, TL-2/7522. ##### n.12.731. Extracts from Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia **Title** *Extracts from Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia*, and other modern authorities respecting the Balsam and Myrrh trees, illustrative of the natural history of Theophrastus, and other ancient writers, with notes and three plates, by John Stackhouse,... Bath (printed by John Binns) 1815. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Extr. Bruce's Travels*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1815, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxi, De Libanoto \[1\]-15, *3 pl*. (uncol. copp.). *Copies*: G, NY. – T.p. of the "*De Libanoto*" part: *De Libanoto*, Smyrna, et Balsamo, Theophrasti notitiae, addita de Mniasio Sari apud eundem conjectura: ex editione Historiae plantarum curante Johanne Stackhouse, Oxonii 1814. In usum peregrinantium D.D. This part of the book occurs also separately, without imprint.