> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 93](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189564) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7384-1) LSID 7384-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1716747) QID Q1716747 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Paterson, William (1755-1810), British naturalist, traveller and administrator; collected in South Africa 1777-1779; to India 1781-1785, to Australia 1791, collected for Banks; Lieut.-Governor New South Wales 1800-1810. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Paterson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Paterson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]; further material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]] and [[Collection G|G]]. – See Desmond p. 482 for mss. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 532; Backer p. 427; Barnhart 3: 54; BB p. 238; BM 4: 1529; Dawson p. 654-656; Desmond p. 482; DNB 44: 26; Herder p. 56; HR; HU 706; Jackson p. 349; Kew 4: 246; Lasègue p. 278-279, 446; NI 1: 236, 3: 9; Plesch p. 357-358; PR ed. 1: 7803; Rehder 5: 652; Sotheby 590; Tucker 1: 543. #### Biofile - Baines, J.A., Vict. Natural. 90: 248-249. 1973. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.22. 1980. - Britten, J., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45: 45-46. 1920 (Cape coll.). - Brown, R., Prodr. 303. 1810 (eponymy). - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 82. 1978. - Cottage Gardener 8: 328-329, 351, 364-365, 378-379. 1851; 9: 3. 1851. - Dyer, R.A., S. Afr. biol. Soc. Pamphl. 14: 44-62. 1949. - Forbes, V.S., Pioneer travellers of South Africa 81-92. 1965 (S.Afr. journey; b. 10 Aug 1755). - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. Expl. S. Afr. 70, 273-275. 1981 (extensive inf. on itin. S. Afr.; portr., secondary lit.). - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 117. 1970 (ferns Norfolk Isl. E.?). - Hooker, J.D., Fl. Tasm. 1(3): cxxiv. 1859. - Hutchinson, J., Botanist in S. Africa 620-623. 1966. - Maiden, J.H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 116. 1908; Sir Joseph Banks 104, 197. 1909. - Miller, H.S., Taxon 19: 535. 1970 (CGE material via Lambert). - Norton, J., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 768. 1900. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 374. 1863 (b. 17 Aug 1755, d. 21 Jul 1810). - Thunberg, C.P., Travels 4: 271. 1796. - White, A. & Sloane, B.L., The Stapelieae 1, 19, 156. 1933. 1: 20 \[index\], 86. 1937 (Expl. Orange River). #### Eponymy *Patersonia* R. Brown (1807, *nom. cons.*). Note: The etymology of *Pattersonia* J.F. Gmelin (1792) and its orthographic variants *Patersonia* Poiret (1816) and *Pathersonia* Poiret (1816) have not been established, but possibly may also commemorate him. *Neopatersonia* Schönland (1912) was named for Mrs. T.V. Paterson, a botanical collector in South Africa. Toponyms: Paterson River (N.S.W.), town of Paterson (Tasmania). ### Publications ##### n.7439. A narrative of four journeys **Title** *A narrative of four journeys* into the country of the Hottentots and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine... London (printed for J. Johnson,...) 1789. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. journ. Hottent.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1789, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-171, map, i-iii, \[iv\], *16 pl*. (col. copp., dated 30 Mar 1789). *Copy*: NY. *German transi*.: 1790 (p. viii: 5 Sep 1789), p. \[i-xiv\], \[1\]-170, \[1, binder, err.\], *pl. 1-16* (uncol. copp.). *Copy*: BR. – "Wilhelm Patterson's \[sic\] *Reisen in das Land der Hottentotten* und der Kaffern während der Jahre 1777, 1778 und 1779. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Johann Reinhold Forster \[1729-1798\],..." Berlin (bei Christian Friedrich Voss und Sohn) 1790. Oct. (*Reis. Land Hottent.*). *Other eds*.: English (1790) and French (by B. de Laborde 1790) n.v.