> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 553](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212595) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10928-1) LSID 10928-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q599800) QID Q599800 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Turton, William (1762-1835), British physician and naturalist (especially conchologist); practicing physician in Swansea, Dublin, Torquay and Bideford. **Abbreviated name**: *Turton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Turton*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 410; BB p. 307; BM 2: 983, 5: 2155, 8: 1333; CSP 6: 72; Desmond p. 624 (b. 21 Mai 1762, d. 28 Dec 1835); DNB 19: 1304-1305 (by B.B.W.) (57: 377-378); Frank 3 (Anh.): 107; SO 34h, 137 add. 1234a, 2643a; Tucker 2: xxxviii. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. bibl. 2484. 1880. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 242: 708-709. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 196: 395. 1967. - Bridson, G.D.R., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 84.27. 1980. - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 347. 1978. - Vachell, E., Glamorgan botanists 252. 1936. ### Publications ##### n.15.396. A general system of nature **Title** *A general system of nature*, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals: systematically divided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties with their habitations, manners, economy, structure and pecularities. Translated from Gmelin's last edition of the celebrated Systema naturae, by Sir Charles Linne: amended and enlarged by the improvements and discoveries of later naturalists and societies, with appropriate copper-plates, by William Turton, M.D....: vol. V. Swansea (printed by Z.B. Morris,...) 1802. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. syst. nat.* **Notes** *Vols. 1-4*: *Animal Kingdom* 1802. *Copy*: PH. *Vols. 5-6*: Vegetable kingdom. *Copies*: MO, PH. *5* \[*Vegetable kingdom* vol. i\]: 1802, p. \[1\]-888, *pl. 1-8.* \[6\] *Vegetable kingdom* vol. ii: 1806, p. \[889\]-1851, \[1852-1880\]. *Vol. 7*: *Mineral kingdom* (n.v.). *Note*: Regnum vegetable vol. 1 appears also with a t.p., dated 1806, identical with that of vol. 2 with a different set of subtitle-matter: *A general system*... and pecularities. By Sir Charles Linné \[sic\]; translated from Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. together with various modern arrangements and corrections,... with a life of Linné,... in seven volumes... London (Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co....) 1806. – For further details see SO 137 (including another edition dated 1806). *Other ed*.: 1806, 7 vols.... London (printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co....) 1806. *Copy*: PH (vols. 1-6). *A general system*... Linné \[sic\]: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow &c. together with various modern arrangements... with a Life of Linné,... London (printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co....) 1806. Oct. *Vegetable Kingdom* – *vol. 1*: 1806, p. \[i\], \[1\]-888, *pl. 1-8.* *Vegetable Kingdom* – *vol. 2*: 1806, p. \[i\], \[889\]-1851, \[1852-1880\], index\]. *Special edition of Vegetable kingdom*: 1806, 2 vols. *Copy*: PH. – A general system of the Vegetable Kingdom, systematically divided into its several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties,... together with various modern arrangements and corrections, derived from the Transactions of the Linnean and other societies,... Andrews, Lambert, &c. London (printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co....) 1806. Oct. *1*: 1806, p. \[i\], \[1\]-888, *pl. 1-8.* *2*: 1806, p. \[i\], \[889\]-1851, \[1852-1880, index\].