> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 111](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212153) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10330-1) LSID 10330-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444164) QID Q444164 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Swainson, William (1789-1855), British naturalist and explorer; with the British colonial army in Malta and Sicily 1807-1815; from 1815 on privately active; in Brazil with Henry Koster 1816-1819; working on his – mainly zoologial – collections in England 1818-1840; emigrated to New Zealand 1840; engaged by the Tasmanian and Victorian administrations to report on timber trees 1851-1853. **Abbreviated name**: *Swainson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Swainson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (Brazil), [[Collection LIV|LIV]] (Mediterr.; few from W. Ind. and Brazil); further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]] (Sicily), [[Collection FI|FI]] (New Zeal.), [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection LIV|LIV]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection WELT|WELT]]. *Letters* at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. – Manuscripts at Mitchell Libr. (Sydney), Natl. Libr. Canberra, Dominion Museum (Wellington). Drawings of New Zealand trees at [[Collection K|K]]. – Further information on mss. in [[Collection HR|HR]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 351; BB p. 294; BM 5: 2054-2055, 8: 1276; CSP 5: 893-894; Dawson p. 797-798; Desmond p. 594-595 (b. 8 Oct 1789, d. 7 Dec 1855); DNB 55: 192-193 (19: 192-193); DSB 13: 167-168 (N.F. McMillan); Herder p. 77; HR (q.v. for further biogr. refs.); IH 1 (ed. 7): 344; Jackson p. 218; ME 3: 403; PR 9059; Rehder 5: 831; SO 2698; TL-2/see J. Nadeaud. #### Biofile - Allen, D.A., Handb. Guide Herb. Liverpool 11, 41, 63. 1935. - Allen, D.E., The naturalist in Britain 291 \[index\] 1976. - Allibone, S.A., Grit. dict. Engl. bot. 2: 2308. 1878 (bibl.). - Anon., Bonplandia 4: 305. 1856; Bot. Zeit. 14: 624. 1856 (obit. not.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 233: 24-25. 1965; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 180: 972-975. 1952; Österr. bot. W. 6: 302. 1856 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: xlix-liv. 1857 (obit.). - Barber, L., The heyday of natural history 1820-1870, p. 319 \[index\]. 1980. - Boase, W., Modern Engl. biogr. 3: 841. 1965. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 440 \[index\]. 1980. - Dallman, A.A. & M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool Bot. Soc. 1: 91-92. 1909. - Dance, S.P., The art of natural history p. 51, 94, 95, 111, 112, 142. 1978. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 333-334. 1980 (zool. publ.). - Galloway, D.J., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8(4): 369-379. 1978 (botanical researches in Australia 1841-1855). - Günther, C.L.G., Proc Linn. Soc. 112: 25-61. 1900 (Swainson corr. at LINN). - J.M.W., Turnbull Libr. Rec., New Zealand ser. 2. 1(1): 6-19. 1967. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 253. 1984. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 1985. - Maiden, J.H., Vict. Natural. 25(7): 113-114. 1908; Rep. 13th Meeting Australas. Ass. Adv. Sci. 1912 (first suppl.): 235. 1912 (on documents at Dominion museum). - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. dipterol. 2: 217-218. 1973. - Scholefield, G.H., ed., Dict. New Zealand Biogr. 2: 350-352. 1940. - Stansfield, H., Handb. guide herb. coll. Liverpool 63. 1935 (on coll. at LIV). - Swainson, W., Edinburgh philos. J. 1: 369-373. 1819 (account journey Brazil); Taxidermy 338-352. 1840 (autobiogr., portr.). - Taunay, A. d'E., Revista Mus. Paulist., São Paulo 10: 884-894. 1918 (on Brazilian work). - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 117. 1906 (biogr. inf., itin.). - Winchester, I.M., Turnbull Library Record ser. 2.1: 6-19. 1967. #### Note *The Botanical Report on Victoria* was published as *Botanical report of William Swainson* Esq. F.R.S., Votes Proc. Legisl. Counc. Victoria Session 1853-1854, 1: 921-928. 1853. – Reprinted in W.J. Hooker, J. Bot. 6: 186-190. 1854 (see Galloway, 1978). #### Eponymy *Swainsona* R.A. Salisbury (1806) honors Isaac Swainson (1746-1812), English gardener and cousin of W. Swainson. ### Publications ##### n.13.498. The naturalist's guide **Title** *The naturalist's guide* for collecting and preserving subjects of natural history and botany, both in temperate and tropical countries, particularly shells;... London (published by W. Wood,...) 1822. **Abbreviated title**: *Natural. Guide*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1822, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-72, *2 pl. Copy*: PH.