> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 146](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264873) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/253-1) LSID 253-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3525017) QID Q3525017 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Archer, Thomas Croxen (1817-1885), British surgeon and botanist, with Import Department Liverpool Custom House 1841-1860, formed economic collections of Liverpool imports for the Great Exhibition \[London\] 1851, also for Royal Institution, Liverpool; professor of botany Queen's College Liverpool 1857-1860, director Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art 1860-1885, president Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 1862; commissioner at various international "Exhibitions". **Abbreviated name**: *T.C. Archer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Archer*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 71; BB p. 9; BM 1: 55; CSP 1: 85, 6: 567, 7:42, 13: 142; Dawson p. 17 (further refs.); GF p. 48; Jackson p. 66, 192; NI 45; PR 207-210, see also p. 574; Rehder 5(index): 25; Tucker 1: 40. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 21: 383. 1885 (d.); Leopoldina 21(5-6): 59. 1885 (d. 19 Feb 1885). - Dallman, A.A. and M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool Bot. Soc. 1: 57-58. 1909 (curr. vit.; bibl.; b. 1817 Northampton; d. 19 Feb 1885, Edinburgh). #### Eponymy *Archeria* J.D. Hooker (1857) [^1]. ### Publications ##### n.19.379. Popular economic botany **Title** *Popular economic botany*; or description of the botanical and commercial characters of the principal articles of vegetable origin, used for food, tanning, dyeing, building, medicine, perfumery, etc.... London (Reeve & Co.,...) 1853. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pop. econ. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai-Jul 1853 (p. viii: Mai 1853, Bonplandia 1:156. 1853 (publ. by 20 Jul 1853), Bot. Zeit. 11 Nov 1853), p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix\]-xi, \[xii-xiii\], xv, \[1\]-344, \[345\]-359, \[360, colo.\], *pl*. *1-20* (hand col. liths. W.H. Fitch). *Copies*: G, MO, NY. *Later edition* (with the title changed to "Profitable plants", a description \[subtitle as in ed. 1\] 1865, p. \[i\]-viii, \[ix-xii\], xv, \[1\]-359, \[360, colo.\], *pl. 1-20. Copies*: MO, NSUB. *Ref*.: Anon., Hook. J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 7: 32. 1855 (rev.). ##### n.19.380. First steps in economic botany **Title** *First steps in economic botany*, for the use of students; being an abridgment of popular economic botany. London (Lovell Reeve) 1854. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *First steps econ. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1854, p. \[1\]-24, \[adv.\], \[*frontisp. pl.*\], \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-199, *pl. 1-20. Copy*: NY. [^1]: "*Archeria* Hook.f. 1857 (Ericaceae) \[is dedicated to\] William Archer (1820–1874), botanist in Tasmania, sent to Hooker orchids and drawings of orchids which were published in J.D. Hooker’s Flora tasmaniae (1857: 262)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9):