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### 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.