> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 395](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068637) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4358-1) LSID 4358-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15482) QID Q15482 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Jack, William (1795-1822), British botanist; educated at Aberdeen; surgeon in the Bengal medical service (1813); to Sumatra with Raffles (1818); died at sea near S. Sumatra. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Jack* \[standard form in IPNI: *Jack*\] #### Herbarium and types The greater part of Jack's collections and manuscripts was lost by fire while in transit to Europe. Duplicates had previously been received by Wallich and are now mainly at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection G|G]]. Smaller numbers of duplicates are in several herbaria. – See Merrill for a critical discussion of "William Jack's genera and species of Malaysian plants" (1952). *Ref*.: Wallich, N., Catalogue plants East India Comp. Herb., 1830-1832 (list of Jack's plants). - Cowan, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21: 219-227. 1954. - Miller, H. S., Taxon 19: 526. 1970 (sale Lambert herb.). - Steinberg, C., Webbia 32(1): 28. 1977 (pl. in FI-Webb). #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 290-291; Barnhart 2: 238; BB p. 163; BM 2: 915; CSP 3: 506, 16: 38; Dawson p. 692; Desmond p. 338; DNB 29: 86; Hortus 3: 1196 ("Jack"); IH 2: 305; Jackson p. 392; Kew 3: 129; Lasègue p. 145-147; Lenley p. 239; PR 4346 (ed. 1: 4802); Rehder 5: 425; SK 1: xxv, 256-257, 5: ccxxxix, 8: xlix; Tucker 1: 364; Zander ed. 10, p. 674. - Anon., J. Straits Branch R. Asiat. Soc. 25: 164. 1904, 65: 43. 1913. - Burkill, Gard. Bull. Straits Settlements 4(4-5): 125. 1927. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 422. 1880. - Chatterjee, J. Bombay nat. hist. Soc. 56(3): 449-456. 1959. - Gage, J. Straits Br. R. Asiat. Soc. 73: 147-268. 1916 (J's letters to N. Wallich 1819-1821). - Greshoff, M., Nutt. ind. pl. 90-91. 1895. - Hooker, W. J., Comp. bot. Mag. 1: 121-147. 1835 (biogr. mem. and extracts from his corresp.). - King, G., J. Bot. 37: 461. 1899. - Merrill, E. D., J. Arnold Arb. 33(3): 199-250, *pl. 1*. 1952 (Jack's Malaysian plants). - Ridley, H. N., Fl. Malay penins. 1: xv. 1932. #### Handwriting J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 56(3): 455. 1959. #### Eponymy *Jackia* Wallich (1824); *Jackia* Blume (1825); *Jackia* K. P.J. Sprengel (1826); *Jakkia* \[sic\] Blume (1823). ### Publications ##### n.3216. Descriptions of Malayan plants **Title** *Descriptions of Malayan plants*. 1820-1822. **Notes** *Publ*.: Original publication in Malayan Miscellanies, at the Sumatran Mission Press, Bencoolen: 1(1): 1-27 (Aug 1820), 1(5): 1-49 (Oct-Nov 1820), 2(7): i-iii, 1-96 (1822). – Only a few copies were distributed; the stock was accidentally burnt in 1824 (copy at British Museum, Bloomsbury, London). – The above dates are taken from the Jack-Wallich correspondence published by Burkill in Gage. *Facsimile reprint*: 1977, Leiden (Boerhaave Press), ISBN 90-70157-05-x. *Copy*: FAS. – See Taxon 27(1): 111. 1978. *Other reprints*: 1, in Bot. Misc. Hooker 1: 273-290, 2: 60-89. 1830-31; Hooker, J. Bot. 1: 358-380. 1834; Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 121-157, 219-224, 253-273. 1835. 2, in Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. ed. (Griffith) 4: 1-62 (Apr); \[159\]-231 (Jul); 305-374 (Oct 1843). *Copy*: L. 3, in Trübner's Oriental Series ser. 2. 1: 2. 1887 (n.v.). The order of the descriptions is different in the various reprints. An independently paged edition exists of the Griffith reprint in addition to the reprints bearing the original Calcutta J. nat. Hist. page numbers. *Ref*.: Burkill, *in* Gage, J. Str. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 73: 239-268. 1961.