> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 524](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355611) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12685-1) LSID 12685-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2142133) QID Q2142133 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855), Scottish-born soldier, explorer and botanist; deputy surveyor general New South Wales 1827, surveyor general 1828. **Abbreviated name**: *T. Mitch.* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Mitch.*\] #### Collection According to J. D. Hooker (Fl. Tasm. cxx. 1860) the collections made on the four expeditions were divided as follows: First expedition (1831-1832): John Lindley (now CGE) and Robert Brown (BM). Second expedition (1835): John Lindley (now CGE). Many of the plants from this expedition were described by Lindley (see below). Third expedition (1836): plants collected by Richardson, sent to Lindley (now CGE). Fourth expedition (1847): plants given to Lindley (CGE) and Sir William Jackson Hooker (K). A set of 485 plants from perhaps several of these expeditions was presented to BM in 1847 by Mitchell. Other material at E, K and W. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 497; BB p. 217; BM 3: 1323; Bossert p. 269; CSP 4: 409; Desmond p. 443 (q.v. for further refs.); DNB 38: 74; Herder p. 54-55; HR (q.v. for many biogr. refs.); IH 2: 544; Kew 4: 16; Lasègue p. 497; PR 6295-6296 (ed. 1: 6978); Rehder 1: 500; TL-1/880; Tucker 1: 491. - Allibone, S. A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1329. 1870. - Anon., Austr. Encycl. 6: 110-112. 1965 (HR); Österr. bot. W. 6: 87. 1856 (d.). - Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 34: 150. 1888 (coll. W), Bot. Anstalten Wiens 74. 1894 (id.). - Couch, B. V., The administration of Thomas Mitchell 1826-1837. M. A. thesis, Univ. Sydney, 1963 (n.v., fide HR). - Cumpston, J. H. L., Thomas Mitchell: surveyor-general and explorer. Melbourne 1954 (n.v., fide HR). - Daley, C., Vict. Natural. 53: 113-119. 1936. - Dixson, W., J. Proc. R. Austral. Hist. Soc. 5(6): 292. 1919. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 208-209. 1882. - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 93-94. 1978. - Hedge, I. C. & J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 111. 1970 (coll. E). - Hooker, J. D., Fl. Tasm. cxx. 1860. - Jackson, B. D., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1901: 46 (coll. K). - Lee, I., Early expl. Australia 632 \[index\]. 1925. - Maiden, J. H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N. S. W. 42: 76-77. 1908. - Mennell, P., Dict. australas. biogr. 325. 1892. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 169. 1904 (pl. BM). - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr. lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 158. 1863. - Willis, J. H., Vict. Natural. 66: 86-87. 1949. - Woolds, W., Progress bot. discovery Australia 23. 1869 (fide BB). ### Publications ##### n.6131. Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia **Title** *Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia*, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales,... London (T. & W. Boone,...) 1838, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Three exped. Australia*. **Notes** *1*: 1838 (p. iv: 18 Aug 1838), frontisp. (=*pl. 4*),engr. t.p., \[i\]-xxi, \[xxii, adv.\], \[1, h.t.\], \[1\]-343, maps, app. \[345\]-351, *pl. 1-21.* *2*: 1838, frontisp. (=*pl. 46*), engr. t.p., \[i\]-viii, \[1, h.t.\], \[1\]-405, *pl. 22-50.* *Copies*: Kon. Bibl. 's Gravenhage, NY. – Lists of plants and animals collected are given in 1: xvii-xxi. The botanical notes are by John Lindley (reprinted in Ann. Sci. nat. 15: 56-64. Jan 1841). *Ed. 2*: 1839, London (T. & W. Boone), 2 vols, "carefully revised." *1*: front., p. \[i\]-xxiii, \[1\]-347, map, *pl. 1-20*, plus unnumbered plates and figs. *2*: front., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-415, *pl. 22-51*, plus id. *Facsimile ed*. (*ed. 2*): 1965, Adelaide (Libraries Board of Australia. Australiana facsimile editions no. 18. *Copy*: US. ##### n.6132. Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia **Title** *Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia*, in search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria... London (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, ...) 1848. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *J. exped. trop. Australia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Feb-31 Mar 1848 (p. 437: 15 Feb 1848; rd. by Geol. Soc. London before 31 Mar 1848), p. \[i\]-xv, \[1, list\], \[1\]-437, *pl. 1-12, maps 1-7. Copies*: HH, NY, Teyler. – "A systematical list of the principal plants..., by G. Bentham, W. J. Hooker, J. Lindley, W. H. de Vriese, p. 431-437.