> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 457](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068699) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4543-1) LSID 4543-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273969) QID Q273969 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Jones, Sir William (1746-1794), British judge of the Supreme Court, Calcutta (1783-1794); knighted 1793; published on botany and a variety of other subjects. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Jones* \[standard form in IPNI: *Jones*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 294; BB p. 169-170; BM 2: 941; Dawson p. 479-480, 678; Desmond p. 351; DNB 30: 174-177; Dryander 3: 178, 202, 648, 649, 5: 20, 103; DTS 3: 576; Kew 3: 191; Lasègue p. 558; NW p. 50; PR ed. 1: 4938; Rehder 5: 436; SO add. 755a; Tucker 1: 375. - Arberry, A. J., Asiatic Jones, London 1949. - Cannon, G. H., Oriental Jones, New York 1964; The letters of Sir William Jones. London 1970. - Mukerjee, S. N., Sir William Jones, London 1968. - Styles, B. T., Taxon 25(5/6): 671-672. 1976 (an evaluation of his *Bot. Obs.*); 26(1): 162. 1977. #### Festschrift *Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal*, Calcutta, Sir William Jones – Bicentenary of his birth. Commemoration volume 1746-1946. Calcutta. 1948. #### Eponymy *Jonesia* Roxburg (1795). Note: *Cephalojonesia* R. Grolle & C. Vanden Berghen (1971), *Jonesia* M. Bizot, R. B. Pierrot & T. Pocs (1974), and *Jonesiobryum* M. Bizot & T. Pocs (1974) are dedicated to E. W. Jones. ### Publications ##### n.3400. Botanical observations on select Indian plants **Title** *Botanical observations on select Indian plants*, Asiatic Researches 4: 237-312. 1795. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1795. See Styles (1976, 1977) for an evaluation of the nomenclatural standing of the names used by Jones. See also "A catalogue of Indian plants..." Asiat. Res. 4: 229-237. 1795 (1792). To be cited from journal.