> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 858](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333997) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10059-1) LSID 10059-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47126686) QID Q47126686 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Steele, William Edward (1816-1883), Irish botanist and physician; MD Dublin 1837; director of the Science and Art Museum Dublin. **Abbreviated name**: *Steele* \[standard form in IPNI: *Steele*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DBN|DBN]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 320 (b. 15 Jun 1816, d. 6 Mai 1883); BB p. 287; BM 5: 2006; Desmond p. 581; Jackson p. 235, 503; LS 25710; PR 8913, ed. 1: 9874; Rehder 1: 400, 533. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 21: 192. 1883 (obit. not.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 79. 1957. - Boase, F., Modern English biography 6: 612. 1965. - Nelson, E.C., Irish bibl. bot. hort., mss. 1981. - Praeger, R.L., Some Irish naturalists 158. 1949. ### Publications ##### n.12.865. A handbook of field botany **Title** *A handbook of field botany*, comprising the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles, arranged according to the natural system. The orders, genera and species carefully analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination; with a synoptical table of the genera according to the Linnaean classification. And a glossary of those terms most commonly in use... Dublin (James McGlashan,...) 1847. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Handb. field bot.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1847 (p. xi: 1 Jul 1847), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxix, \[1\]-249. *Copies*: DBN, HH, NY, USDA. *Ed. 2*: 1851 p. x: Mar 1851), frontisp., p. \[i\]-xxix, \[1\]-220, 220a-d, 221-249. *Copies*: DBN, NY. – Inserted into this edition between 218-220d is "addenda species discovered in Britain since 1847, or more particularly described", replacing a similar section on p. 218-219 in the first edition (Nelson). – Second edition. Dublin (id.) 1851. Duod.