> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 527](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212569) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10892-1) LSID 10892-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q746453) QID Q746453 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Tuckey, James Hingston (1776-1816), British commander in the navy and explorer; in the British navy from 1793, lieutenant 1800, first lieutenant 1802; on the Calcutta to New South Wales to survey Port Philipp 1802-1804; in French captivity 1805-1814, commander 1814; on the Congo to the Zaire river 1816. **Abbreviated name**: *Tuckey* \[standard form in IPNI: *Tuckey*\] #### Herbarium and types The collections made by Christian Smith and David Lockhart "from the vicinity of the Congo", collected 1816 and worked up by Robert Brown are at [[Collection BM|BM]]. #### Note The second Christian name of Tuckey is consistently misspelled "Kingston" in the *Narr. exped. Zaire* 1818 (and also by us in TL-2/5: 668, 1064). #### Bibliography and biography BM 5: 2149; DNB 19: 1212-1213 ("James Kingston ..."); Jackson p. 346; Lasègue p. 444; PR 1225, 9552, ed. 1: 1368, 10523; Rehder 5: 864; RS p. 145; TL-1/1338; TL-2/12.190, see C. Smith; Tucker 1: 703. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2468. 1880. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 242: 143. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. 195: 832-833. 1966. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 224.534. 1980. - Ferguson, J.A., Bibl. Australia 1: 165. 1941. - Hoefer, Nouv. biogr. gén. 45: 692-693. 1866. - J.V.C.-B., Austral. encycl. 2: 599. 1926, 9: 56. s.d. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 1144-1145. 1863. - Robert, W.C.H., Contr. bibl. Austral. South Sea Isl. ed. 2: 309. 1970. #### Composite works *An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip* in Bass's Strait... in the years 1802-1804. London 1805, *List of plants* on p. 218-219. – See Ferguson (1941) for further details. – *German transl*.: 1805, Bericht von einer Reise nach Neu-Süd-Wallis ... Weimar (... Landes-Industrie Comptoir). #### Eponymy The derivation of *Tuckeya* Gaudichaud-Beaupre (1841) could not be determined. ### Publications ##### n.15.287. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire **Title** *Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire*, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J.K. \[sic, for H.\] Tuckey, R.N. To which is added the journal of professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. Published by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London (John Murray,...) 1818. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. exped. Zaire*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 5 Mar 1818 (see Stearn 1961), p. \[i\*-vii\*\], \[i\]-lxxxii, \[1\]-498, map, *pl. 1-14. Copies*: BR, H-UB, HH, MO, NSUB, PH, USDA; IDC 150. – *Appendix 5*: *Observations, systematical and geographical*, on professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo, by Robert Brown, F.R.S., on p. 420-485. – Plants collected by Christen \[sic\] Smith (1785-1816) and his assistant David Lockhart (x-1846). For Robert Brown (1773-1858) see TL-2/1: 364-369. – A reprint of the appendix, published separately London 1818, p. 1-66 is mentioned in the literature. *Facsimile ed*.: London (Cass) 1967 (n.v.). *Ref*.: Stearn, W.T., Taxon 10: 237-238. 1961.