> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 110](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264837) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/199-1) LSID 199-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371504) QID Q371504 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Anderson, Thomas|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Anderson, Thomas (1832-1870), Scottish botanist and physician, MD Edinburgh 1853, in the Bengal Medical Service 1854-1858, superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, 1860/61-1868, visited as such Java 1861 to obtain Cinchona stock for Darjeeling, returned to Edinburgh 1868. **Abbreviated name**: *Th. Anderson* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Anderson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CAL|CAL]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection NCY|NANCY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection W|W]]. – Manuscripts [[Collection K|K]] (corr. W.J. Hooker). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 26; Barnhart 1: 57; BB p. 7; BM 1: 43; Bret. p. 360; Clokie p. 121; CSP 1: 65, 7: 33, 9: 43, 12: 16; Desmond p. 13 (b. 26 Feb 1832, Edinb., d. 26 Oct 1870, q.v. for further lit.); DNB 1: 392; Hortus 3: 1187; IH 1 (ed. 6): 355, 2: 36; Jackson p. 384, 388, 451; Kew 1: 58; MW p. 4; PR 152-154; Rehder 5(index): 16-17; SK 1: 15, 598, 8: x; TL-2/1: 45; Tucker 1: 37; Urban-Berl. p. 292, 325; Zander ed. 10, p. 590, 628, ed. 11, p. 713. #### Biofile - Anon., J. Bot. 8: 368. 1870 (obit., list publ.); Flora53: 490. 1871 (death notice), 54: 79. 1871 (succeeded as dir. Bot. Gard. Calcutta by King); Curtis Bot. Mag. dedic. 1827-1927, 151-152. 1932 (portr.). - Balfour, I.B., Trans, bot. Soc. Edinburgh 11: 41-45 (obit., list publ.). - Blatter, E., Fl. Aden 11-14. 1914 (on his stay in Aden 1859 and his *Florula adenensis* 1860); Rec. Bot.-Surv. India 8(5): 474. 1933. - Bose, P.N., Cent rev. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 3: 73. 1885. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 138.15. 1980. - Burkill, I.H., Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 4(4/5): 116. 1927 (1861 journey to Java for Cinchona, coll. at Singapore); Chapt. hist. bot. India 129, 130, 131, 133, 135, 137, 144, 147, 168, 232. 1965. - Laclette, T.P.H., Rodriguésia 3(11): 258. 1937. - Steenis-Kruseman, M.J. van, Fl. males. ser. 1. 1: 15. 1950. #### Composite works *Cruciferae* (with J.D. Hooker), *Fl. Brit. India* 1(1): 128-167. Mai 1872; *Guttiferae*, id. 1(2): 258-278. Jan 1874. ### Publications ##### n.19.204. Florula Adenensis **Title** *Florula Adenensis*. A systematic account, with descriptions, of the flowering plants hitherto found at Aden... London (Longman, Green, Longmans and Roberts, and Willians and Norgate) 1860. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Florula Aden.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 31 Dec 1860 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-47, *pl. 1-6* (uncol. liths. W. Fitch). *Copy*: G. – Issued as J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Suppl. to vol. 5, Bot. 1860. ##### n.19.205. On the flora of Behar **Title** *On the flora of Behar* and the Mountain Parasnath, with a list of the species collected by Messrs. Hooker, Edgeworth, Thomson and Anderson... Journal of the Asiatic Society... 1863. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1863, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 32(3): 189-218. 1863; reprints exist but not seen by us. ##### n.19.206. Catalogue of plants **Title** *Catalogue of plants* cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens *Calcutta* from April 1861 to 28th September 1864. Calcutta (printed at Bishop's College Press) 1865. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. pl. Calcutta*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr-Dec 1865 (p. iv: 28 Mar 1865), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-81, \[i\]-xvii (index), \[xviii\] (impr.). *Copies*: B-S, HH, L, NY; IDC 6450.