> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 351](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265078) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/517-1) LSID 517-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8016445) QID Q8016445 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Barton, William Paul Crillon|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Barton, William Paul Crillon (1786-1856), American botanist at Philadelphia, nephew of B.S. Barton; graduated at Princeton 1805, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; joined the navy as a surgeon 1809, served in naval hospitals in Philadelphia, Norfolk and Pensacola; succeeded his uncle as professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, subsequently teacher of materia medica at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; first chief Navy Department Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 1842-1844. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Barton* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.P.C.Barton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PH|PH]] (including the herbarium of B.S. Barton). − Some further material in [[Collection P|P]]-JU. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 133 (b. 17 Nov 1786, d. 29 Feb 1856); BM 1: 105; Bossert p. 27; CSP 1: 260; DU 25-26; GF p. 48; Hortus 3: 1188; IH 2: 58; Jackson: see index; Kew 1: 172; ME 3: 535 (index); NI 84-85; Plesch 134-135; PR 442-446, ed. 1: 523-528; Rehder 1: 306, 313, 3: 62; RS p. 73; Sotheby 33, 34, 35; TL-1: 15-16; TL-2/1: 129-131; Tucker 1: 61; Zander ed. 10, p. 632, ed. 11, p. 718. #### Biofile - Barnhart, J.H., Bartonia 9: 35-42. 1926 (on herb.). - Barton, W.P.C., Memorial from the professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1820, 26 p. (plea to shift professorship from fac. nat. sci. to medical faculty; see McPhail (1986) no. 18). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.160. 1980. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 148. 1969. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 374. 1877. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 460-461 (index). 1967. - Greene, J.C., American science in the age of Jefferson 49, 271, 272. 1984. - Harshberger, J.W.S., Bot. Philadelphia 159-163. 1899. - Kelly, H.A. and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 70. 1920. - Lubrecht, H., Early Amer. bot. works 1967, no. 10. - MacPhail, I., Benjamin Smith Barton and William Paul Crillon Barton, The Morton Arboretum 1986 (portr., biogr. sketch, critical bibliography 27 nos., major source). - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 122(3): 159. 1978 (some herb. mat. in Muhlenberg herb., also at PH); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 144. 1981 (on herb. mat. at PH). - Pennell, F.W., Bartonia 21: 45. 1942 (bot. coll. Philadelphia area); Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 94: 139-151. 1950 (herb.). - Pleadwell, F.L., Ann. med. Hist. 2(3): 267-301. 1919 (pioneer naval medicine, handwriting, portr.). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 43. 1981 (mss.). ### Publications ##### n.20.313. Some account of **Title** *Some account of* a plant used in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania as a substitute for chocolate; and which appears to be the *Holcus bicolor* of Willdenow's species plantarum... Philadelphia (printed by T.H. Palmer) 1816. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Some account of Holcus bicolor*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Oct 1816 (date of printing fide p. 8; actually read 17 Oct 1816), p. \[1\]-8. *Copies*: HH, PH. − See MacPhail (1986), no. 14. ##### n.20.314. Outlines of lectures **Title** *Outlines of lectures* on materia medica and botany delivered in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia... Philadelphia (published by Joseph D. Auner,...) 1827, 2 vols. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Outlines bot.* **Notes** *1*: 1827, p. \[i\]-xx, \[7, sic\]-246, \[1\]-8. *2*: Dec 1827 (preface p. iv: 12 Nov 1827), p. \[i\]-iv, \[9, sic\]-291, \[292\]. *Copy*: MO.