> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 106](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066446) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12995-1) LSID 12995-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462269) QID Q462269 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Watson, Sir William (1715-1787), British physician, physicist and botanist; MD Halle & Wittenberg 1757; physician to the Foundling Hospltal, London 1762-1787. **Abbreviated name**: (*Sir*) *Wm. Wats.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Watson*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 581; Ainsworth p. 25, 185, 311, 348; Backer p. 622; Barnhart 3: 465; Bossert p. 428; Dawson p. 858-859; Desmond p. 645 (b. 3 Apr 1715, d. 10 Mai 1787); DNB 60: 45-47 (20: 956-958); Dryander 3: see index; DSB 14: 193-196 (J.L. Heilbron, q.v. for prim. and sec. bibl.); LS 28388-28396; PR 10397, alph.; Rehder 5: 905; SO add. 638; TL-2/see T. Velley; Tucker 1: 735. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 3: 2609. 1880. - Berkeley, E. & D.S., Dr. John Mitchell 283 \[index\]. 1974. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.54. 1980. - Cameron, H.C. et al., Hist. Worshipf. Soc. Apothecaries London 1: 78-82, 132-135. 1963. - Fries, Th.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 1(6): 88. 1912. - Gunther, A.E., The founders of science of the British Museum 1753-1900. Halesworth, p. 6-7. - Hulth, J.M., Bref Skrifv. Linné 2(1): 101-103. 1916. - Lütjeharms, W.J., Gesch. Mykol. 143 f., 204. 1936. - Pulteney, R., Sketch. progr. bot. England 2: 295-340. 1790. - Rose, H.J., New gen. biogr. dict. 12: 428-429. 1850. #### Eponymy *Watsonia* P. Miller (1758, *nom. cons.*); *Watsonia* Boehmer (1760).