> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 295](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066635) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11688-1) LSID 11688-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119329) QID Q119329 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877), American naval officer and explorer; in the merchant navy 1815-1818, in the U.S. navy as midshipman 1818, lieutenant 1826, surveyed Narragansett Bay 1832-1833; in charge of the Washington Depot of Charts and Instruments 1833; in command of the *Porpoise* in the survey of St. George's Bank and of the Savannah River; commander of the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842, from 1843-1861 on special service in charge of the publication of the results of the Expedition; in command of the *San Jacinto* 1861 of the James River flotilla and the Potomac flotilla 1862; on retirement as captain 1862, as commander 1863, as rear-admiral 1866. **Abbreviated name**: *Wilkes* \[standard form in IPNI: *Wilkes*\] #### Herbarium and types Almost all collections made by the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842 are at the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. The plant collections made by the botanists William Rich, Charles Pickering and William Dunlop Brackenridge (probably some 50.000 specimens) are at [[Collection US|US]] (dupl. [[Collection GH|GH]]) (see e.g. Bartlett (1940), p. 678-679). – Further material at [[Collection BPI|BPI]], [[Collection FH|FH]] (orig. diatoms J.W. Bailey), [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Manuscript* autobiography: [[Collection LC|LC]] (publ. 1978). – *Letters* (to botanists): [[Collection GH|GH]] (A. Gray), [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 626; Barnhart 3: 496 (b. 3 Apr 1798, d. 8 Feb 1877); BM 5: 2322, 8: 1434; Bossert p. 436; DAB 20: 216-217 (biogr. refs.); DSB 6: 369; Ewan ed. 1: 281, 283, 337; Herder p. 63; Jackson p. 224, 404; Lasègue p. 388-390; Lenley p. 472 (letter to J. Torrey); ME 2: 650-673, 3: 678; NI 2153, 3: 69; PR 10674; SIA see index; SK 1: 575-577; TL-1/434; TL-2/239, 697-698, 2129, 13.402, 13.407 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 746. #### Biofile - Alden, R.H. & J.D. Ifft, Early naturalists in the Far West, Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 20, 1943, p. 49-54 (on Expl. Exped. in Calif). - Andrist, R.K., Amer. Heritage 17: 61-63, 92-103, portr. 1966 ("Ice ahead"). - Anon., Amer. J. Sci. 113: 246. 1877 (obit, not., d. 8 Feb 1877); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 257: 744-745. 1965; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 223: 876-877. 1975; Natl. Cycl. Amer, biogr. 2: 105-106. 1921; Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 12: 323-325. 1877 (obit.).; The New York Times 8 Feb 1877 (obit.); Who was who Arner., hist. vol. 580. 1963. - Bartlett, H.H., Proc. Amer. philos. Soc. 82(5): 601-705. 1940 (The reports of the Wilkes expedition, and the work of the specialists in science; major study) \[vol. 82(5) of the Proceedings contains the 18 papers presented during the Centenary Celebration of the Wilkes exped. Feb 23-24. 1940\]. - Bixby, W., The forgotten voyage of Charles Wilkes, New York (David McKay Company) 1966, vii, 184 p. - Collins, F.S., Rhodora 14: 57-68. 1912 (botanical and other papers Expl. Exped.). - Diehl, W.W., Mycologia 13: 38-41. 1921 (Fungi Expl. Exped.; 31 fungi coll., 8 described as new; specimens at USDA \[now BPI\]. - Drake, F.S., Dict. Amer. biogr. suppl. 983. 1872. - Edgar, R.K., Occ. pap. Farlow Herb. 14: 9-33. 1979 (Jacob W. Bailey and the Diatoms of the Wilkes Expl. Exped.; J.W. Bailey's diatoms from the Exped. are at FH). - Elliott, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. Sci. 274-275. 1979. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 8, 42, 77, 91, 97, 117. 1969. - Eyde, R.H., Huntia 6(2): 165-196. 1986 (on William Rich of the U.S. Exploring Exped.). - Farrow, E.B., Social studies 39: 359-364. 1948. - Godley, E.J., Tuatara 13(3): 168-172. 1965 ("Botany of the southern zone"). - Greely, A.W., Explorers and travellers 194-211. 1893. - Hanley, W., Natural history in America 142-156. 1977 ("searching for Antarctica"). - Haskell, D.C., Bull. New York Public Library 44: 93-112. 1940, 45: 69-89, 507-532, 821-858. 1941, 46: 103-150. 1942 (main bibliography; referred to as "Haskell"). - Henderson, D.M., The hidden coasts 1953, repr. 1971 (biogr. of Wilkes). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 794. 1985. - Meany, E.S., ed., Washington Hist. Quart. 16(1): 49-61. 1925, 16(2): 137-145. 1925, 16(3): 206-223. 1925, 16(4): 290-301. 1925, 17(1): 43-65. 1926, 17(2): 129-144. 1926, 17(3): 223-229. 1926 (Diary of Wilkes in the Northwest). - McKelvey, S.D., Bot. Expl. Trans. Miss. West 1143 \[index\] 1955. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 434-435. 1969 (list of zool. publ. Expl. Exped.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw. Buch 3: 1446-1447. 1898. - Rodgers, A.D., William Starling Sullivant 360 \[index\]. 1940, John Torrey 352 \[index\]. 1942. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 415-416. 1975 (no herbarium has a complete set of the cryptogams). - Silverberg, R., Stormy voyager, Philadelphia, New York 1968. - Smith, A.C., Flora vitiensis nova 1: 38. 1979 (expl. Fiji). - Stafleu, F.A., Taxon 21(1): 168-173. 1972 (rev. of facs. ed. Botany Wilkes Exped.). - St. John, H., Rhodora 87: 565-595. 1985 (typification of Hawaiian plants described by Asa Gray from the Wilkes Exped. collections). - Tyler, D.B., The Wilkes Expedition, Philadelphia 1968, 435 p. (see index). - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 144-146. 1906. - Van Wyck Brooks, Fennollosa and his circle 197-216. 1926. - Viola, H.J. & C. Margalis, eds., Magnificent voyagers: the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1833-1842. Washington D.C. 1985. - Wilkes, Ch., Autobiography of rear admiral Charles Wilkes U.S. Navy 1798-1877, ed. W.J. Morgan et al., Washington 1978, xxii, 944 p. (portr., bibl.). #### Handwriting On endpapers of Ch. Wilkes, Autobiography, 1978, see above. #### Eponymy *Wilkesia* A. Gray (1852). ### Publications ##### n.17.646. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition **Title** *Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842,... Philadelphia (Lea & Blanchard) 1845. Qu. 5 vols., atlas. **Abbreviated title**: *Narr. U.S. Expl. Exped.* **Notes** *1*: 1845 (p. xxiii: Nov 1844), p. \[i\]-lx, \[1\]-434, *8 pl*., map. *2*: 1845, p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-476, *14 pl*., 3 maps. *3*: 1845, p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-438, *12 pl*. *4*: 1845, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-539, *15 pl*., map. *5*: 1845, p. \[i\]-xv, \[1\]-558, *15 pl*., 4 maps. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY. *Condensed ed*. 1852, London (Ingram, Cooke, and Co.,...) Oct. *Copy*: US. *1*: portr., p. \[i\]-x, \[xi\], \[1\]-318. *2*: \[i\*\], frontisp., p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-326. *Synopsis*: 1842, *Synopsis of the Cruise of the U.S. Exploring Expedition*,... Washington 1842, 56 p. *Facsimile ed*.: 1970, Boston (Gregg Pr.), 5 vols., ISBN 0-8398-2169-7. ##### n.17.647. United States Exploring Expedition **Title** *United States Exploring Expedition*. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.,... Botany in vols. 15, 16, 17, \[18\]; Geographical distribution of animals and plants in vol. 1-9. Philadelphia 1854-1876, various formats. **Abbreviated title**: *U.S. Expl. Exped.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Treated under the authors of botanical accounts (see Stafleu (1972) for details in the facsimile edition of these volumes). *15*. *Botany, Phanerogamia*, by Asa Gray 1854, 1856, see TL-2/2129, 2130. *16. Botany, Cryptogamia, Filices*, by William Dunlop Brackenridge, 1854, 1855, see TL-2/697, 698. *17. Botany, Cryptogamia, Musci*, by William S. Sullivant, see TL-2/13.407; *Lichens*, by Edward Tuckerman, q.v., *Algae*, by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey 1862, see TL-2/239, *Fungi*, by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley 1862, see TL-2/p. 192. *Phanerogamia of Pacific North America*, by John Torrey, Philadelphia 1874. See under J. Torrey. *18. Botany, Phanerogamia*, part 2, by Asa Gray, never printed; manuscript at GH. *19. Geographical distribution of animals and plants*, by Charles Pickering, TL-2/7912.