> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 356](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066696) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11747-1) LSID 11747-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014944) QID Q8014944 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wilson, William (1799-1871), British solicitor and bryologist at Manchester, later at Paddington near Warrington. **Abbreviated name**: *W. Wils.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wilson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (50.0000, see Murray 1904). – Other material at [[Collection AK|AK]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection DGN|DGN]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection GC|GC]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection QK|QK]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection WRN|WRN]]. *Exsiccatae*: *Musci britannicae* nos. 1-443. – Sets at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NY|NY]] (see Sayre 1971). – *Drawings* at [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection FH|FH]] (tracings from books). – *Correspondence* (12 vols. at [[Collection BM|BM]]) and *letters* at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection H|H]]-UB, [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]]-UB. -*Manuscripts*: see Bridson (1980). #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 147, 6(1): 342; Barnhart 3: 505; BB p. 330-331; Bossert p. 439; Clokie p. 266; CSP 6: 389, 8: 1249; Desmond p. 668 (b. 7 Jun 1799, d. 3 Apr 1871); DNB 62: 147 (21: 618); Frank 3 (Ann.): 114; Herder p. 485; Jackson p. 241; Lenley p. 438; MW p. 532; NI alph.; PR 10308; Rehder 5: 925; SBC p. 135; TL-1/546; TL-2/2828, 2966, 2989, 11.601, see J.P.F.C. Montagne, E. Newman, T. Drummond, Th. Taylor; Urban-Berl. p. 273. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. 103: 153. 1872 (d.); Bot. Not. 1872: 26 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 29: 398. 1872 (d.); Bull. Soc. bot. France 20 (bibl.): 47. 1873 (BM acquired W.'s herb.); Flora 54: 205. 1871 (obit. not.); J. Bot. 11: 128. 1873 (herb. acq. by BM); Österr. bot. Z. 21: 220. 1871 (d.). - Boase, F., Modern English biogr. 3: 1426. 1965. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. Hist. mss. res. Brit. 1sl. 448 \[index\]. 1980. - Crowder, A.A., Canad. Field Natural. 88: 47, 48, 54. 1974 (possible Wilson mat., label). - Dallman, A.A. & M.H. Wood, Trans. Liverpool bot. Soc. 1: 105-107. 1909 (curr. vit.; list publ.). - Hunt, G.E., J. Bot. 9: 159-160. 1871 (obit. not.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 86. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish Herb. 276. 1984. - Lett, H.W., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 32-37: 73. 1915. - Moore, S., Fl. Chestshire xci. 1899. - Murray, G., *in* Hist. coll. Nat. Hist. Dept., Brit. Mus. 1: 191. 1904 (herb. 50.000 purch. by BM in 1873; fungi and suppl. mosses acquired 1874; 437 Brit. mosses id. 1900 from WRN). - Robinson, J.F., Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 11: 170-174. 1873 (obit.). - Rodgers, A.D., William Stirling Sullivant 360 \[index\]. 1940. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 172-174. 1971 (coll.); Bryologist 80: 520. 1977 (coll.). - Woodward, B.B., *in* Hist. coll. Nat. Hist. Dept. Brit. Mus. 1: 52-53. 1904 (orig. drawings and notes, correspondence at BM). #### Composite works - (1) *Musci, in* B. Seemann, *Bot. Voy. Herald* 1852-1857, TL-2/11.601, p. 44-46, 244-245, 333, 432. - (2) Co-author with J.D. Hooker, *Musci antarctici* 1844, TL-2/2966. #### Eponymy *Wilsonia* Rafinesque (1814); *Wilsonia* W.J. Hooker (1829); *Wilsoniella* C. Mueller Hal. (1881). ### Publications ##### n.17.905. Musci americani **Title** *Musci americani*; or, specimens of mosses, Jungermanniae, &c. collected by the late Thomas Drummond, in the southern states of North America arranged and named by W. Wilson and Sir W.J. Hooker,... Warington 1841. **Notes** Co-author: William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), TL-2/2: 283-301. *Publ*.: 1841, printed t.p., 2 p. manuscript index of genera. *Copy*: G. – See Th. Drummond 1828, TL-2/1: 1532 for the exsiccatae. ##### n.17.906. Description of two mosses from Jamaica **Title** *Description of two mosses from Jamaica* \[Trans. Edinb. bot. Soc. 1850\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1850, p. 21-22. *Copy*: G. – Reprint or tearsheet taken from Trans. Edinb. bot. Soc, read 11 Nov 1847, previously publ. Ann. nat. Hist. 20: 378-379. 1847. ##### n.17.907. Bryologia britannicae **Title** *Bryologia britannicae*; containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, systematically arranged and described according to the method of Bruch and Schimper, with illustrative plates: being a new (third) edition, with many additions and alterations, of the Muscologia britannica of Messrs Hooker and Taylor. By William Wilson. London (Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans) 1855. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bryol. brit.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Apr 1855 (p. \[iii\]: Dec 1854; rev. Hooker J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. Mai 1855), p. \[i\]-xx, \[xxi, xxiii-xxiv\], \[1\]-432. *pl. 1-61* (col. copp.), \[(433)1-445. *Copies*: BR, FH, G, HH, LIV, MICH, MO, NY, PH, U; IDC 6205. – For previous editions see W.J. Hooker and Thomas Taylor, Muscol. brit. 1818, 1827, TL-2/2989. *Synopsis*: see C.C.P. Hobkirk, *Syn. Brit. moss.* 1873, TL-2/2828.