> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 457](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120588) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1411-1) LSID 1411-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1235238) QID Q1235238 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813-1885), British physician, naturalist and microscopist. **Abbreviated name**: *W. B. Carpenter* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.B.Carp.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews ed. 2, p. 244; Barnhart 1: 314; BB p. 59; BM 1: 318-319; CSP 1: 794-795, 6: 618, 7: 32, 9: 451, 12: 143, 14 76; DNB 9: 166; Jackson p. 19; Kew 1: 482; Merrill p. 638-640; PR 1536-1538; Quenstedt p. 75. - Anon. \[Milne-Edwards\], C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 101: 983-985. 1885. - Lancaster, Nature 33: 83-85. 1885. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1883/6: 138-140. 1886. - Anon., Amer. monthly micr. J. 7: 1-3. 1886 (portr.) - Bonney, Quart. J. geol. Soc., London 42 (suppl.): 41-43. 1886. - E.R.L., Proc. Roy. Soc. 41: ii-ix. 1887. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 90. 1903; 3(3): 76. 1905. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill 86-87. 1966. - Bryn Thomas, DSB 3: 87-89. 1971 (bibl.) #### Eponymy *Carpenteria* J. Torrey (1853) is dedicated to William Marbury Carpenter (1811-1848), American botanist. ### Publications ##### n.1027. The microscope **Title** *The microscope*: and its revelations... Illustrated by 345 wood engravings. London (John Churchill) 1856. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Microscope*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1856, London (John Churchill), after 9 Feb 1856 (p. x), p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-778, 345 ill. *Copies*: MICH, US. *Ed. 1a*: 1856, Philadelphia (Blanchard and Lea) Oct. (as below), after June 1856 (p. vi), p. \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-724, *text figs. 1-434. Copies*: US. Library of Congress. "The microscope: and its revelations by William B. Carpenter... with an appendix containing the applications of the microscope to clinical medicine, etc. by Francis Gurney Smith... illustrated by four hundred and thirty-four engravings on wood. Philadelphia (Blanchard and Lea)" *Co-author* (appendix): Francis Gurney Smith (1818-1875). *Ed. 2*: 1857, London (John Churchill), Oct., "The microscope and its revelations. By William B. Carpenter... Second edition, illustrated by 370 wood engravings, " p. \[i\]-xix, \[1\]-719, *figs. 1-370. Copy*: UC. *Ed. 5*: "prepared with the assistance of H. J. Slack..." Philadelphia (Lindsay and Blakiston) 1875, p. \[i\]-xxxii, \[1\]-848, *pl. 1-25* (uncol. liths.), 449 text ill. Oct. *Copy*: NY. – Also London 1875 (n.v.), idem. Henry James Slack (1818-1896) (DNB 52: 361). *Ed. 6*: Philadelphia (Presley Blakiston), after Mai 1881 (pref. Mai 1881), p. \[i\*\], \[1\]-xxxii, \[1\]-882, *frontispiece, pl. 1-25*, 502 text ill. Oct. *Copy*: NY. *Ed. 6a*: London, Mar-Jul 1881 (n.v.), idem (Nat. Nov. Aug 1881). *Ed. 6b*: New York (William Wood & Company), vol. 1: Apr 1883, p. \[i\]-xi, \[1\]-388, *pl. 1-12*, front., *figs. 1-278*; vol. 2: Mai 1883, p. \[1\]-iv, \[1\]-354, *pl. 13-26, figs. 279-502. Copy*: MICH. *Ed. 7*: 1891, Philadelphia (P. Blakiston, Son, & Co.), Oct. "*The*... revelations by the late William B. Carpenter... Seventh edition in which the first seven chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. W. H. Dallinger... with twenty-one plates and eight hundred wood engravings," p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-1099, *pl. 1-21, fig. 1-756. Copies*: UC, US. – Also London, 1891, idem (n.v.) (Nat. Nov. Nov 1891). Rev. William Henry Dallinger (1842-1909) (BB p. 82; DNB suppl. 2(1): 462). *Ed. 8*: 1901 (after Mar), Philadelphia (P. Blakiston's Son & Co.), p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-1181, 22 pl., 817 text figs. *Copy*: Library of Congress. – Also London 1901 (n.v.), idem. "The microscope... Dallinger,... with xxii plates and nearly nine hundred wood engravings." *Ref*.: BM 1: 319; Jackson p. 220 (ed. 5); Kew 1: 482 (ed. 8); PR 1538. ##### n.1028. Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera **Title** *Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera*. By William B. Carpenter... assisted by William K. Parker... and T. Rupert Jones... London (Robert Hardwicke, for Ray Soc.) 1862. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Intr. Foramin.* **Notes** *Co-authors*: William Kitchen Parker (1823-1890); Thomas Rupert Jones (1819-x). *Publ*.: 1862, p. \[i\]-xxii, \[1\]-319, pl. *1-22* with text, wood engravings by G.West, uncoloured. *Copy*: MICH.