Thomas Walker Horsfield

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Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Walker Horsfield (born May 12, 1773 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, † July 14, 1859 in London ) was a British doctor , zoologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Horsf. "

Life

Horsfield was born in Philadelphia in the US state of Pennsylvania in 1773 and studied medicine there . He worked as a doctor in Java for many years . The East India Company took control of this island from the Netherlands , and Horsfield began collecting animals and plants on behalf of his friend Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles . Because of illness he had to leave Java in 1819 and became curator , later curator of the Museum of the East India Company in London .

In 1822 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1826 Horsfield became Deputy Director of the Zoological Society of London . Since 1829 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society . In German usage, the Horsfield Lark is named after him, which he was the first to describe scientifically.

Works

  • An experimental dissertation on the Rhus vernix, Rhus radicans and Rhus glabrum, commonly known in Pennsylvania by the names of poison-ash, poison-vine and common sumach. Cist, Philadelphia 1798.
  • Impressions of dried plants from Java. 1812.
  • Systematic arrangement and description of birds from the island of Java. 1820.
  • The History and antiquities of Lewes and its vicinity. Baxter, Lewes 1824.
  • Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighboring Islands. Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen, London 1821-1824.
  • A descriptive catalog of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the Honorable East India Company. Parbury & Allen, London 1828/29.
  • The history, antiquities and topography of the county of Sussex. Baxter, Lewes 1835.
  • Plantae javanicae rariores, descriptae iconibusque illustratae, quas in insula Java, annis 1802–1818. Allen, London 1838-52.
  • Essay on the cultivation and manufacture of tea in Java. Cox & sons, London 1841.
  • A catalog of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company. Allen, London 1857-59.

literature

  • John S. Bastin: The geological researches of Dr Thomas Horsfield in Indonesia, 1801-1819 . In: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) / Historical series 10, 1982, 3, ISSN  0068-2306 , pp. 75-115.
  • James B. MacNair: Thomas Horsfield, American naturalist and explorer . In: Torreya. A bimonthly journal of botanical notes and news Vol. 42, 1942, ISSN  0096-3844 , pp. 1-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Thomas Horsfield. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Horsfield, Thomas Walker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physician, zoologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, USA
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1859
Place of death London