> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 420](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068662) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/20878-1) LSID 20878-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3525492) QID Q3525492 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author James, Thomas Potts (1803-1882), American bryologist; collaborator of Leo Lesquereux; lived at Philadelphia 1803-1869; at Cambridge, Mass. 1869-1882. **Abbreviated name**: *T. James* \[standard form in IPNI: *James*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection FH|FH]] and [[Collection PH|PH]]. – Other material [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection PC|PC]]-Durand. Correspondence at [[Collection FH|FH]]. *Ref*.: Pennell, Bartonia 21: 55. 1942 (herb, at PH). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 244; BM 2: 923; Bossert p. 194; CSP 3: 53 h 8: 12, 10: 321, 12: 363; DAB (by H. M. Raup);Jackson p. 365; IH 2: 311; Kew3: 146; ME 1: 198, 3: 604; Rehder 5: 430; SBC p. 123 ("James"); TL-2/312, 1310; Tucker 1: 368. A. M. S., Bryologist 6(6): 101. 1903 (bibl. add.J. - Anon., Bot. Gaz. 7: 51. 1882; Bot. Not. 1883: 30; Rev. bryol. 7: 80,91. 1880; 9: 48. 1882; 11: 64, 75. 1884. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 12, 91. 1969. - Gray, A., Sci. papers 2: 419-420. 1889. - Gozzaldi, Bryologist 6(5): 71-74. 1903 (portr.). - Harshberger, J. W., Bot. Philadelphia 186-187. 1899. - Humphrey, Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 125-126. 1961. - Murray, J. Bot. 20: 158-159. 1882. - Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. coll. Acad. Phila. p. 481 (ind.). 1963. - Pennell, F. W., Bartonia 21: 55. 1942. - Rickett, H. W., Index Bull. Torrey bot. Club 51. 1955. - Rodgers, A. D., William Starling Sullivant 349 \[index\]. 1940; Amer. bot. 1873-1892. 330 \[index\]. 1944. - Rothrock, Proc. Amer, philos. Soc. 20(110-113): 293-297. 1883. #### Composite works - (1) See Lesquereux and James, *Manual of the mosses of North America*. Boston (Cassino & Co.), 1884 (TL-2/4421). - (2) Assisted Darlington in the preparation of *Flora cestrica*, 1853 ed. (TL-2/1310). #### Note In a printed announcement of his death (copy at MO) his widow, Isabella James, writes "Until within a few hours of his death, Mr. James was working on a Manual of North American Mosses, which he, in connection with M. Leo Lesquereux, was preparing for the press, giving the result of the study of the past forty years." See A. D. Rogers (1944) for many notes on James and on the rôle played by him in the publication of Lesquereux and James, *Manual* (see above, composite works). #### Portraits See Bossert p. 194, and Gozzaldi (1903). #### Handwriting Bartonia 28: *pl. 5*, 1957.