> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 459](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266766) of TL-2 Suppl. III > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16986296) QID Q16986296 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Castle, Thomas (c. 1804- c. 1840), British physician and botanist, Fellow of the Linnean Society 1827, studied at Cambridge, Trinity College 1831-1832, apprenticed to a surgeon at Hyth, studied at Guy's Hospital 1826, resident in Brighton, "styled himself M.D. in 1838" (fide DNB). **Abbreviated name**: *Th. Castle* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 322; BB p. 61; BJI 2: 214; BM 1: 326; Desmond p. 122; DNB 9: 275; Jackson p. 17, 37, 38, 62, 201; Kew 1: 494; PR 1597-1600, ed. 1: 1746-1749; Rehder 1: 86, 255, 260, 3: 56; SO 836a; Tucker 1: 144. #### Biofile - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 1495-1980. 81 (no. 657-658). 1980. - Johnson, D.E., Huntia 6(1): 28 (no. 64). 1985. #### Notes - (1) See (BM 1: 326) B.H. Barton for the *British flora medica* 1837 of B.H. Barton and Th. Castle; new edition edited by J.R. Jackson 1877 (J. Bot. 15: 255. 1877). - (2) Not seen by us: *A synopsis of systematic botany*, London 1833, 17 p., *1 pl*. (fide Rehder 1: 255). - (3) Id., *The Linnean artificial system of botany*, \[3\], 30 p., *1 pl*., London 1836 (fide Rehder 1: 260). ### Publications ##### n.25.079. introduction to systematical and physiological botany **Title** An *introduction to systematical and physiological botany*. Comprehending the history, elements, and language of botany; the Linnaean artificial system; the natural systems of Linnaeus and Jussieu; the anatomy and physiology of plants, and the harmonies of vegetation... London (E. Cox...) 1829 12-mo. **Abbreviated title**: *Intr. syst. physiol. Bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1829, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-285, \[i\]-xvi, *pl. 1-9* (col.). *Copy*: BM. *Ed*. \[*2*\]: 1830, frontisp. (*pl. 1*), p. \[i\]-xviii, \[xix\], \[1\]-285, \[287-302 index\], \[1-2 advs.\], *pl. 2-9*, \[1-2, advs.\], subscribers, \[v\]-ix. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: Johnson, D.E., Huntia 6(1): 28. 1985.