> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 211](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212253) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10506-1) LSID 10506-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161065) QID Q3161065 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tennent, James Emerson (1804-1869), British (Belfast-born) politician and administrator; educated at Trinity College Dublin; called to the Bar (never practiced) at Lincoln's Inn 1831; M.P. for Belfast 1832, 1835, 1837, 1842-1845, for Lisburn 1851-1852; secretary to the India Board 1841-1845, civil secretary to the government of Ceylon 1845-1850; secretary to the Poor-Law Board 1850-1852, knighted 1867. **Abbreviated name**: *Tennent* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tennent*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography BM 5: 2083-2084; DNB 19: 545-546; PR 9140; Rehder 5: 838; Tucker 1: 682, 3: 306. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2370-2371. 1878 (bibl.). - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 61: 414-415. 1960 (under Emerson); Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 184: 43-44. 1957. - Boase, F., Mod. Engl. Biogr. 3: 912. 1965. ### Publications ##### n.13.896. Ceylon **Title** *Ceylon* an account of the island physical, historical, and topographical with notices of its natural history, antiquities and productions... London (Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts) 1859, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ceylon*. **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1859. *Copies*: B-S; IDC 291. *1*: p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xxxv, \[xxxvi, err.\], map, \[1\]-619, \[620\]. *2*: frontisp., p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-655, \[656\]. *Ed. 2*: 1859, 2 vols., see BM 5: 2083. *Copy*: HH. – London (id.). *1*: p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xxv, \[xxvi\], map, \[1\]-619, \[620\]. *2*: p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xvi, \[1\]-660. *Ed. 3*: 1859, n.v. *Ed. 4*: 1860. *Copies*: B-S, HH, NY, PH. *1*: p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xxxix, \[1\]-643, \[644, colo.\]. Botany on p. 83-124. *2*: p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xvi, map, \[1\]-663, \[664\]. – "The sacred bo-tree" on p. 632-636. *Ed. 5*: 1860, n.v. *Danish abstract* from ed. 4, Tidsskr. Pop. Fremst. ser. 3. 1: 97-123, 170-173, 181-218, 253-279, 3(app.): 1-98. 1864 (n.v.). ##### n.13.897. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon **Title** *Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon* with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the Mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. Including a monograph of the elephant... London (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts) 1861. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Sketch. nat. hist. Ceylon*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1861 (p. xiv: 1 Nov 1861), p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., \[iii\]-xxiii, \[xxiv, err.\], \[1\]-500, *8 pl. Copies*: B-S, PH; IDC 292.