> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 194](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189665) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12238-1) LSID 12238-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58029) QID Q58029 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Peters, Wilhelm Carl Hartwig (1815-1883), German (Schleswig) zoologist, physician and traveller; 1842-1848 in S. and E. Africa and India; professor of medicine Berlin 1851; professor of zoology ibid. 1856. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Peters* \[standard form in IPNI: *Peters*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection B|B]], partly extant; duplicates at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection EA|EA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]]. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 25: 489-493; Backer p. 437; Barnhart 3: 73; BL 1: 47, 312; BM 4: 1555; CSP 4: 847-851, 6: 741-742, 8: 600-603, 10: 1039-1043, 17: 817; Herder p. 56; Kew 4: 282; Langman p. 580; Lasègue p. 579; NI 1515; PR 7081; Quenstedt p. 335; Rehder 1: 492; SK 4: ccv; TL-1/970; TL-2/3984; Tucker 1: 551; Urban-Berl. p. 382. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 8: 330. 1860; Bot. Zeit. 1: 439-440. (note on possible death), 590-591 (arrived safely in Luanda, Angola). 1843; Flora 26: 245. 1843. (to Africa on 5000 Thaler); Peterm. Mitt. 30: 104. 1884 (b. 22 Apr 1815, d. 21 Apr 1883); Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1882/83: 47-48. 1883 (obit.); Psyche 4: 59. 1883; Science 1: 438. 1883. - Ascherson, P., Bot. Zeit. 41: 368. 1 Jun 1883 (b. 2 Apr 1815, d. 20 Apr 1883); S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 1883: 67. - Becker, K. & E. Schumacher, S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin ser. 2. 13(2): 145. 1973 (index to P's papers in this journal). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 229.32. 1980. - Dolezal, H., Friedrich Welwitsch 77, 95, 152, 189, 206, 214. 1974. - Dunning, J.W., Proc. entom. Soc. London 1883: xlvii. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 229. 1882. - Exell, A.W. & F.A. Hayes, Kirkia 6(1): 99. 1967 (coll.). - Exell, A.W. et al., Bol. Soc. Broter. ser. 2. 26: 218. 1952. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 294. 1977. - Gomes e Sousa, A. de F., Expl. Flora Moçambique, Docum. trim. 57-58. 1949. - Hilgendorf, F., Allg. deut. Biogr. 25: 489-493. 1887 (extensive details, bibl.). - Moldenke, H.N., Plant Life 2: 76. 1946 (1948) (epon.). - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 315. 1969 (b. 22 Apr 1815, d. 21 Jun 1883). - Türckheim v., Berl. entom. Z. 27: ii. 1883. - Wood, R.D., Monogr. Charac. 1: 833. 1965 (note on *Characeae*, in Peters, *Naturw. Reise* by A. Braun and possibly by K. Müller, p. 566). #### Eponymy *Petersia* Klotzsch (1816); *Petersia* Welwitsch ex Bentham (1865) and its derived genus *Petersianthus* Merrill (1916). ### Publications ##### n.7759. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique **Title** *Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique* auf Befehl seiner Majestäts des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt von Wilhelm C.H. Peters. Botanik... Berlin (Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer) \[1861-\] 1862-1864, 2 parts. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Naturw. Reise Mossambique*. **Notes** *Vol. 6, Botanik*, in two parts \[1861-\] 1862-1864. (Vols. 1, 3-5, zoological, vol. 2 not published). *1*: late 1861 (see preface 6(2); however, the first 34 sheets presented to the K. Akad. Wiss., Berlin Apr 1858), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-304, *pl. 1-48* (uncol.; J.D.L. Franz Wagner del.). *2*: 1864 (BSbF Apr 1864; "erschienen" Bot. Zeit. 4 Mar 1864), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxii, \[305\]-584, *pl. 48*a-*60* (id.). *Copies*: B, BR, FI, G, H, MO, NY, PH. *Authors*: Nils Johann Andersson (1821-1880); Johann Otto Boeckeler (1803-1899); Carl August Bolle (1821-1909); Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun, (1805-1877); Christian August Friedrich Garcke (1819-1904); Justus Karl Hasskarl (1811-1894); Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt (1825-1897); Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805-1860); Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850); Karl Müller (1818-1899); Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1824-1889); Joachim Steetz (1804-1862). *Ref*.: Hiern, W.P., J. Bot. 18: 264. 1880 (vol. 1 post-dated).