> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 357](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265084) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/520-1) LSID 520-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18243) QID Q18243 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bartram, William|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bartram, William (1739-1823), American botanist and ornithologist, son of John Bartram, studied at the Academy of Philadelphia 1752-1756, apprentice with a merchant 1757-1761, had a trading store at Cape Fear, N. Carolina 1761-1765; to Florida 1765, 1771, in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida 1773-1777, from 1778 at Kingsessing Pa. at his father's farm, taking care of the garden, writing his *Travels* and devoting himself to botany and ornithology. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Bartram* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Bartram*\] #### Herbarium and types see TL-2/1: 132. − Some further material at [[Collection PH|PH]] (fide J.A. Mears 1978 and in lit.). #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 52-53; Barnhart 1: 133 (b. 9 Feb 1739, d. 22 Jul 1823); BB p. 23; BM 1: 105; Bossert p. 27; CSP 1: 200-201; DSB 1: 488-490 (by W.J. Bell, Jr; b. 9 Apr 1739, Kingsessing, Pa. d. 22 Jul 1823, ib.); Frank 3(Anh.): 8; HU 722 (*Travels*, bibliogr. analysis); IH 2: 58; Jackson p. 354; Kew 1: 173; ME 1: 163-164, 3: 535; NAF 28B(2): 319; Plesch p. 135; PR 447, ed. 1: 530; Rehder 1: 317, 318; Sotheby 36; TL-1: 16; TL-2/1: 132-135; Tucker 1: 61; Zander ed. 10, p. 632, ed. 11, p. 718. #### Biofile - Anon., Nieuwe Alg. Konst. Letterbode 1795: 84-86, 1796(110): 45-46 (detailed rev. of the Dutch translation of the *Travels*); Cabinet of natural history and Amer. rural sports 2: i-vii. 1832 (portr.); An account of the Bartram garden Philadelphia published in "The Horticulturist" in 1850, revised and corrected by the author... 1864, reprinted Philadelphia 1929. - Barnhart, J.H., Bartonia 12, special issue: 51-67. 1931 (bibl. q.v. for earlier publ. on J. and W. Bartram and their garden); J. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 179-180. 1909, 22: 124-125. 1921, 24: 27, 108. 1923, 27: 197. 1926, 29: 6. 1928, 36: 26. 1935; also anonymous, New York Sun 17 Mai 1933. - Berkeley, E. and D.S. Berkeley, Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town 371 \[index\]. 1969; The life and travels of John Bartram. 1982 (see index, many entries). - Carpenter, M.M., Bibl. of biogr. of entomologists 6. 1945. - Coats, A., The plant hunters 166, 274-276, 292. 1969. - Collins, J.A., Bull. Amer. Rock Garden Soc. 41(4): 161-167. 1983 (on both Bartrams). - Darlington, W., Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall, Philadelphia. 1849. - Davis, R.B., Intellectual life in the colonial South 1585-1763. 1: 153, 154, 862, 865, 1196. 1978. - Earnest, E., John and William Bartram, botanists and explorers. Philadelphia 1940. - Elman, R., First in the field 227 (index, many entries, detailed treatment). 1977. - Ewan, J., William Bartram. Philadelphia 1968, (with N. Ewan); J. Arnold Arb. 48(4): 436. 1965 (see letter no. 7); John Banister, Chicago/London 1970, p. 90n, 221, 399; William Bartram, botanical and zool. drawings 1756-1788, ed. Ewan with commentary, rev. F.A. Stafleu, Taxon 18: 443-445. 1969; *in* R.W. Long and O. Lakela, Fl. trop. Florida 1971 (introd.). - Exell, A.W., J. Bot. 65: 65-70. 1927 (on B. and *Asimina*). - Fagin, N.B., William Bartram interpreter of the American landscape. Baltimore 1933. - Fisher, J., The origins of garden plants 135, 140. 1982. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 374. 1877. - Fox, H., Dr. John Fothergill and his friends 185. 1919. - Franklin, W., Discoverers, explorers, settlers 241-242 \[index\]. 1979. - Frost, A., *in* R. Fisher and H. Johnston, Captain James Cook and his times 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16. 1979. - Gee, W., Bull. Univ. S. Carolina 72: 17-19. 1928. - Giordan, A.R., Christian Sci. Mon. 11 Sep 1969 ("start with a daisy"). - Graham, B., The Palmetto 1981: 7 (portr.). - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 461. 1967. - Gray, A., London J. Bot. 1: 1-2. 1842 (in a letter to W.J. Hooker, on B. and Alleghany Mts.). - Greene, J.C., American science in the age of Jefferson 464. 1984 (numerous entries, detailed treatment). - Harper, F., The Auk 53: 381-392. 1936; Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2. 33(2): 1-115. 1942 (on B's travels in Georgia and Florida, report to J. Fothergill); Libr. Bull. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1945: 27-38. 1946 (prop. publ. B's travels); Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 97: 571-577. 1953; Travels of William Bartram, New Haven 1958 (extensive commentary, annot. index); \[for further publ. by F. Harper on W. Bartram see H's Travels of William Bartram, 1958, p. 677-678.\] - Harshberger, J.W.C., Bot. Philadelphia 86-91, 440. 1899. - Herbst, J., New green world, London/New York 1954, 272 p. - Healey, B.J., The plant hunters 1975 (see index). - Kastner, J., A world of naturalists 338 (index). 1978. - Kelly, H.A. and W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 70-71. 1920. - Lubrecht, H., Early Amer. bot. works nos. 13-14. 1967. - Mears, J.A., Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 122(3): 159-160. 1978 (some specimens of plants from B's garden in herb. Henry Muhlenberg at PH), 133: 144. 1981 ("few in herb B.S. Barton, Muhlenberg"). - Merrill, E.D., Bartonia 23: 10-36. 1945 (validity of B's binominals). - Moore, J.A., Nature in the New World 132-133. 1989. - Morris, E.L., Cassinia 10: 1-9. 1906 (portr.). - Peck, R.M., *in* A. Wheeler (ed.), Contr. Hist. North Amer. nat. Hist., Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. special publ. no. 2. London 1983, p. 35-45 (text also publ. as introduction to B's *Travels *1980 ed.), also l.c. 46-50 "books from the B. library". - Porter, C.M., Arch. nat. hist. 16(3): 289-303. 1989 (on B's drawings). - Randall, J.F., Bull. Appalachian State Teacher's College 1963: 13-17 (Naturalists in colonial N. Carolina). - Sandwith, N.Y., Kew Bull. 13(3): 535-536. 1959 (rev. 1959 ed. of *Travels*). - Silver, B., J. Hist. Ideas 39: 597-614. 1978 (on B's "account of nature"). - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 23(4): 462. 1974 (portr.). - Stone, W., Two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first botanic garden in the American colonies... June 5-6. 1931. Philadelphia 1931; Bartonia 12 (special issue): 19-23. 1931. - Sutton, A. and M. Sutton, Exploring the Bartrams, Chicago. 1963. - Swem, E.G., Brothers of the spade 185 \[index\]. 1957. - True, R.H., Bartonia 12, special issue: 7-19. 1931. - Warming, J.I., A history of medicine in South Carolina 1670-1825. 80, 189. 1964. - West, F.D., Pennsylv. Gen. Mag. 20: 253-255. 1956/57 (on the mystery of the death of B.). - Wilbur, R.L., J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 87(2): 56-71. 1971 (on binominals). - Wilson, J.G. and J. Fiske (ed.), Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 1: 189. 1888. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 177. 1903, 3(3): 192. 1905 (on portr.). - Woodward, B.B., *in* Hist. coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 25. 1904 (orig. mss. of his *Travels* and 53 drawings). - Youmans, W.J., Pioneers of science in America 24-39. 1896.