> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 397](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066737) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13025-1) LSID 13025-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6442708) QID Q6442708 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Witham, Henry Thomas Maire (né Silvertop) (1779-1844), British geologist and palaeobotanist; married Eliza Witham of Headlam 1800; sheriff of County Durham; from 1801-1826 living at Larbington, subsequently living in Edinburgh; founder, 1829, of the Natural History Society of Northumberland. **Abbreviated name**: *Witham* \[standard form in IPNI: *Witham*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Andrews p. 350; Barnhart 3: 509; BB p. 331-332; BM 5: 2343; GSP 6: 404; Desmond p. 670 (b. 28 Mai 1779, d. 28 Nov 1844); DSB 14: 462-463 (A.G. Long) (further sec. lit.); Jackson p. 176, 181; PR 10357-10359, ed. 1: 11324-11326. #### Biofile - Andrews, H.N., Fossil hunters 76-79. 1980. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 259: 784. 1965. - Rackham, R.A., Newsletter Soc. Hist. nat. Hist. 19: 9-10. 1983. - Scott, D.H., *in* F.W. Oliver, Makers Brit. Bot. 243-260. 1913. #### Eponymy *Withamia* Unger (1842); *Withamia* A.C. Seward (1895). ### Publications ##### n.18.074. Observations on fossil vegetables **Title** *Observations on fossil vegetables*, accompanied by representations of their internal structure, as seen through the microscope... Edinburgh (William Blackwood), London (T. Cadell,...) 1831 \[i.e. 1830\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Observ. foss. veg.* **Notes** *publ*.: 1 Dec 1830 (date receipt of copy from author by Geol. Soc. London; t.p. 1831, p. \[iii\]: 1 Nov 1830), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-48, *pl. 1-6* (uncol. liths. W. MacGillivray). *Copies*: NY, PH. ##### n.18.075. A description of a fossil tree **Title** *A description of a fossil tree* discovered in the Quarry at Craigleith near Edinburgh in the month of November 1830), Edinburgh 1831. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. foss. tree*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 28 Jul 1831 (or somewhat earlier; date receipt Geol. Soc. London). – Preprinted or reprinted from Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle 1: 294-301. 1831. *Re-publication*: with a "Short account of a fragment and branch found in 1831", in Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 147-152. ##### n.18.076. The internal structure of fossil vegetables **Title** *The internal structure of fossil vegetables* found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain, described and illustrated... Edinburgh (Adam & Charles Black), London (Longman,...) 1833. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Int. struct. foss. veg.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1833 (p. \[iii\]: 1 Jun 1833), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-84, *pl. 1-16* (p.p. col. liths. W. MacGillivray). *Copies*: G, HH, PH, Geol. Bur. Heerlen.