> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 2](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212092) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10147-1) LSID 10147-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889258) QID Q4889258 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Stillingfleet, Benjamin (1702-1771), British botanist, private tutor and author; B.A. Trinity Coll., Oxford 1723. **Abbreviated name**: *Stillingfleet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Still.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 551; Barnhart 3: 331 (d. 15 Dec 1771); BB p. 289; BM 5: 2021, 8: 1251; Bossert p. 384; Desmond p. 585; DNB 54: 373-375 (18: 1260-1262); Frank 3 (Anh.): 100; Henrey 2: 110, 111-112, 116, 304, 538, 742; Herder p. 23, 236, 277; Jackson p. 33, 111, 213, 417, 419; PR 5418, 5425, 5477, 8977-8978, ed. 1: 5998-5999, 6012, 6066, 9934-9935; Rehder 1: 222; SO see index authors p. 51; Tucker 1: 669, 2: xxxvi, 3: 295. #### Biofile - Allen, D.E., Naturalist in Britain 43, 49. 1976. - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 2260-2261. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 230: 403-404. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 178: 593-595. 1950. - Armytage, G.J., Obituary prior to 1800, London 1901, p. 16. - Blackwood, J., Country Life 163: 832. 1978 (portr.). - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 149, 213. 1971. - Coxe, W., ed., Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet. London 1811, 2 vols. (1: 19, 256 p., 2: 7, 651 p.). - Druce, G.C., Fl. Berkshire cxliii. 1897. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 329-330. 1980. - Fussell, G.E., More old English farming books 41-44, 49, 63. 1948. - Jackson, B.D., J. Bot. 62: 361. 1924 (ex D.C. Tovey, Letters Thomas Gray, 2, 1904). - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 99. 1906. - Smith-Dampier, J.L., East Anglian Worthies 179. 1949 (originator of the term Blue Stocking). - Walter, J.H.F., Trans. Norf. Norw. Natural. Soc. 9: 655. 1914 (on Stillingfleet and W. Hudson). ### Publications ##### n.13.112. Miscellaneous tracts **Title** *Miscellaneous tracts* relating to natural history, husbandry, and physic. Translated from the Latin, with notes by Benj. Stillingfleet... London (printed and sold by R. and J. Dodsley,...) 1759. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Misc. tracts*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1759, p. \[i\]-xxx, \[xxxii\], \[1\]-230. *Copy*: KU. – See SO 1319 and HU 573 for contents and notes. "The first fundamental treatise on the principles of Linnaeus published in England, and the era of the establishment of Linnaean botany in England". Contains on p. 202-218 *Observations on grasses* by B. Stillingfleet; on p. 1-30 C. Linnaeus, *An oration concerning travelling in one's own country* \[orig.: *Orig. peregrinat.* 1743, see SO 1354, TL-2/4726\]. – See also Henrey 2: 112-113, 120, 652. *Ed. 2*: 1762, p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[xxxii\], \[1\]-391, *pl. 1-11. Copies*: G, KU, MO, NY. – *Miscellaneous tracts... physick*. To which is added the *Calendar of flora*. By Benj. Stillingfleet. The second edition, corrected, and augmented with additional notes throughout, particularly on some of the English grasses, which are illustrated by copper plates. London (printed and sold by R. and J. Dodsley,...) 1762. Oct. SO 1320. – Contains e.g. *The calendar of flora*, Swedish and English, made in the year 1755 on p. 229-337, with on p. 249-258 a translation of C. Linnaeus' *Calend. fl.* 1756, SO 1897, 1902, TL-2/4787 and *Observations on grasses* on p. \[363\]-391, *pl. 1-11.* *Ed. 3*: 1775, p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[xxxii\], \[1\]-391, *pl. 1-11. Copies*: HH, KU, PH. – "Miscellaneous tracts... the third edition". London (id.) 1775. Oct. Main contents as in ed. 2. *Ed. 4*: 1791, p. \[i\]-xxxi, \[xxxii\], \[1\]-391, *pl. 1-11. Copies*: MO, NY. – "*Miscellaneous tracts* ... the fourth edition". London (id.) 1791. Oct. – SO 1322, 1904. Main contents as in ed. 2. ##### n.13.113. The calendar of flora **Title** *The calendar of flora*, Swedish and English. Made in the year 1755... London (printed for the author,...) 1761. Oct (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Calend. fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1761, p. \[i\]-xxiii, \[xxiv\], 3-45, \[46-50\]. *Copy*: NY. – Translation of C. Linnaeus, *Calend. Fl.* 1756, TL-2/4787. *Re-issue*: *in* Stillingfleet, B., ed., \[C. Linnaeus\] *Miscellaneous tracts* (ed. 2, see 13.112), London 1762, and in Stillingfleet, Literary life 2, 1811.