> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 300](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212342) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10642-1) LSID 10642-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q621821) QID Q621821 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Threlkeld, Caleb (1676-1728), British clergyman (dissenting minister) and botanist; studied at the University of Glasgow 1696; minister at Kirk Oswald, Cumberland 1698-1712, MD Edinburgh (1713); settled in Dublin 1713 as practicing physician. **Abbreviated name**: *Threlkeld* \[standard form in IPNI: *Threlkeld*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 381; BB p. 301; BL 2: 285-286, 723; BM 5: 2105; Desmond p. 611 (b. 31 Mai 1676, d. 28 Apr 1728); DNB 19: 805; Dryander 3: 138; Henrey 2: 154, 3: 128 (nos. 1430-1431); Jackson p. 247; Plesch p. 434; PR 9253, ed. 1: 10227; Rehder 1: 394; Sotheby 749-750; Tucker 1: 689. #### Biofile - Baines, J.E., Victor. Natural. 90: 322. 1973. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 62: 361-362 \["353-354"\]. 1924. - Burdet, H.M. et al., Ouvr. bot. anciens 400, 581. 1985. - Colgan, N., Fl. county Dublin xix-xx. 1904. - Knowles, M.C., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 38(B)(10): 179-180. 1929. - Lett, H.W., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 32(B)(7): 68. 1915. - Mitchell, M.E., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 6-74(1): 1-6. 1974 (sources of his *Synopsis*). - Nelson, E.C., Glasra 2: 37-42. 1978; J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 9(3): 257-273. 1979 (life, background and contribution to Irish botany; main treatment); Irish bibl. bot. hort. mss. 1981, p. 5. - Praeger, R.L., Bot. Ireland 78. 1934; Some Irish natural. 168-169. 1949. - Pulteney, R., Gent. Mag. 1777: 63-64; Hist. biogr. sketch progr. bot. England 2: 196-201. 1790. - Stewart, S.A. & T.H. Corry, Fl. N.E. Ireland xiv. 1888. #### Handwriting J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 9(3): 259. 1979. #### Eponymy *Threlkeldia* R. Brown (1810). ### Publications ##### n.14.305. Synopsis stirpium hibernicarum **Title** *Synopsis stirpium hibernicarum* alphabetice dispositarum, sive commentatio de plantis indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta. Being a short treatise of native plants, especially such as grow spontaneously in the vicinity of Dublin; with their Latin, English, and Irish names; and an abridgement of their vertues. With several new discoverys. With an appendix of observations made upon plants. By Dr. Molyneux,... The first essay of this kind in the Kingdom of Ireland... Dublin (printed by S. Powell, for F. Davys... Richard Norris... and Josiah Worrall...) 1726. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. stirp. hibern.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 27 Oct 1726 (see Nelson 1978, p. 40), p. \[1\]-26, \[1-176\], \[1\]-60. *Copies*: Natl. Libr. Ireland; Bodleian Libr. Oxf. (fide Nelson l.c.). *Reissue*: 1727, p. \[1\]-26, \[1-176\], \[1\]-60. *Copies*: G, NY, USDA. – Imprint as 1726 orig. – Henrey 1431. (The G and USDA copies have p. \[1\]-26, \[27-30, list). *Reissue*: 1727, p. \[1\]-26, \[1-176\], \[1\]-60. *Copies*: BM, Roy. Hort. Soc. (fide Henrey 1430). – "Dublin: printed by S. Powell, for the author:..." 1727. *Ref*.: Mitchell, M.E., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 6-74(1): 1-6. 1974 (sources of synopsis).