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[Taphrospilus]

Bartramia Lesson, 1831 OD t.1 (1831) - Traité d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux - Biodiversity Heritage Library

....Bartramia laticauda: Tringa Bartramania, Wils., pl 59, fig 2.; Totanus Bartramius, Temm.;....

Totanus Bartramia Temminck, ???? OD pt.2 (1820-1840) - Manuel d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Tringa bartramius Wilson, 1832 OD v.2 (1832) - American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States - Biodiversity Heritage Library
I am not sure when Temminck published his name, but he mentioned Wilson. But Wilson mentioned Temmincks publication as well. But Wilson wrote:

This bird being, as far as I can discover, a new species, undescribed by any former author, I have honoured it with the name of my very worthy friend, near whose botanic gardens, on the banks of the river Schuylkill, I first found it.

Vireo bartramii Swainson, 1831 OD pt.2 (1831) - Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America - Biodiversity Heritage Library

To this species, which does not appear to have been distinctly defined, or recorded as a native of the United States, we have affixed the name of one whose love to science, no less than his devotion to the study of Nature, will long render his memory dear to the admirers of Wilson.

See pt.3 (1904) - The birds of North and Middle America - Biodiversity Heritage Library

359.-Vireo bartramii ( not of Audubon ) Swainson , Fauna Bor.-Am. , ii , 1831 , 235

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Sandpiper genus Bartramia Lesson, 1831
Bartram's Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda Bechstein, 1812 [Alt. Upland Sandpiper, Bartramian Tattler]
Bartram's Vireo Vireo bartramii Swainson, 1832 NCR [Alt. Red-eyed Vireo; JS Vireo olivaceus]
American naturalist, explorer and botanist, often called the 'Grandfather of American Ornithology', perhaps because he was the protector of Alexander Wilson (q.v.), who was known as the 'Father of American Ornithology'. He accompanied his father John Bartram (America's 'first' botanist) on a number of expeditions, to the Catskill Mountains (1753–1754), New York and Connecticut (1755) and Florida (1765). William remained in the south drawing flora, collecting botanical specimens, becoming an accomplished ornithologist and befriending both colonial planters and Native Americantribes. During the American War of Independence he joined the Georgia Militia (1776). He returned to his home in Pennsylvania (1777) and wrote about his travels. He was offered (1782) the Chair of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania, but never lectured there. As well as befriending Alexander Wilson he took his nephew, Thomas Say (q.v.), under his wing. Bartram assembled a Catalogue of Birds of North America. An amphibian is named after him.

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bartrami
William Bartram (1739-1823) US botanist, ornithologist, collector, explorer (syn. Bartramia longicauda).

bartramia / bartramii / bartramius

William Bartram (1739-1823) US botanist, ornithologist, collector, explorer (syn. Bartramia longicauda, syn. Vireo chivi).

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BARTRAMIA
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Upland Sandpiper B. longicauda) Specific name Tringa bartramia A. Wilson, 1813 (= syn. Bartramia longicauda): "I have honoured it with the name of my very worthy friend, near whose Botanic Gardens, on the banks of the river Schuylkill, I first found it."; "III.e Sous-genre. BARTRAMIE; Bartramia. Les Chevaliers à large queue, Cuv. Bec de la longueur de la tête, à mandibules légèrement renflées à l'extrémité, égales, convexes; narines basales, latérales. Queue alongée, égale. 15.º CHEVALIER A LARGE QUEUE: Bartramia laticauda: Tringa Bartramia, Wils., pl. 59, fig. 2; Totanus Bartramius, Temm.; Tringa longicauda, Bechst." (Lesson 1831); "Bartramia Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 7, 1831, p. 553. Type, by monotypy, Bartramia laticauda Lesson = Tringa longicauda Bechstein." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 259).
Var. Bartraminus, Bartramius, Bartramus.
Synon. Actidurus, Actiturus, Euliga.

No bird:
Hyla crucifera bartramiana Harper, 1939 OD Southern Subspecies of the Spring Peeper (Hyla Crucifera): Notulae Naturae of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila., No. 27

Harper, F. A. 1939. A southern subspecies of the spring peeper (Hyla crucifera). Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 27: 1–4.

The subspecific name is bestowed as slight tribute to the memory of William Bartram, who has furnished us in his 'Travels' (1791, pp. 264-281) with the best eighteenth-century accounts of Southeastern amphibians and reptiles.

I assume (but have not checked some entries for plants here https://www.bgbm.org/sites/default/files/verz_epo_pfl_2016-09-07.pdf are wrongly claimed as e..g.:

Bartramia J.Ellis 1821 (Primulaceae) John Bartram (1699 - 1777) amerikanischer Gärtner, Botaniker und Pflanzensammler, kultivierte amerikanische Pflanzen in
seinem Gartenbaubetrieb am Schuylkill-River bei Philadelpia ('Bartram's Garden' wurde berühmt, war wohl der erste BG Amerikas), hatte viele Kontakte und
belieferte fast 40 Jahre lang auch Europa mit seinen Pflanzen (dies wurde von Peter Collinson, → Collinsonia, in London koordiniert), zu seinen Abnehmern
gehörten dort u.a. Robert James Lord Petre (→ Petrea), Philip Miller (→ Milleria) vom Chelsea Physic Garden, Lord Bedford (→ Bedfordia) und Alexander
Garden (→ Gardenia) sowie Gärtnereien, unternahm zum Pflanzensammeln viele anstrengende Expeditionen in den östlichen USA bis nach Kanada, begleitete u.a.
auch Pehr Kalm (→ Kalmia), auch sein Sohn William Bartram (1739 - 1823) war oft dabei (wurde später Naturforscher u.a. in der Ornithologie, zeichnete z.B. für
John Fothergill, → Fothergilla) (•Eponym(e): Bartramia, Bartramidula, Bartramiopsis •Autorenname: Bartram •Widmung: •Literatur: Corr. Linnaeus (J.E.
Smith) 1: 8, 15-16. 1821 •Hinweis(e): -)

Mearns & Mearns 2022 [Vol. 1: 35–37] called him simply and only:

"... american naturalist ..."

According William Bartram - Wikipedia

William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823)

Feel free to add anything of value to this thread.

 

[l_raty]

Totanus Bartramia Temminck, ???? OD pt.2 (1820-1840) - Manuel d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Tringa bartramius Wilson, 1832 OD v.2 (1832) - American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States - Biodiversity Heritage Library
I am not sure when Temminck published his name, but he mentioned Wilson. But Wilson mentioned Temmincks publication as well. But Wilson wrote:

The OD was, actually, Tringa bartramia Wilson 1813 : v.7 (1813) - American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States - Biodiversity Heritage Library
(Wilson died in 1813. But his work went through a large number of posthumous editions, with various additions, and finding your way through these is not always easy. The OD did not mention Temminck -- this mention was added by William Jardine who edited the 1832 edition.)

The two first volumes ("parties") of the second ed. of Temminck's Manuel d'ornithologie were noted as published in Bibliographie de la France on 21 Oct 1820 : Bibliographie de la France .
Some copies have a title page dated "Octobre 1820", e.g. : Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe
Others, like the BHL copy, have a title page dated "1820-1840". Zimmer suggested that these were old copies that had simply received a new title page, after the publication of the two last volumes in 1835 and 1840.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

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Mearns & Mearns 2022 [Vol. 1: 35–37] called him simply and only:

"... american naturalist ..."

Nope Martin, not really, that's my choice, that's what I choose to quote (as in an extremely short Summary) from their long and detailed entry about Bartram. I simply didn't think there was much more to add, no need to go into details, on this well-known figure.

If you had read it (in full) you would have seen that Mearns and Mearns (2022*) have a lot (much, much more) info than just that, it's a text of more than two full pages (in A4 size), all about:

William Bartram
(1739–1823)
[...]
Bartram was a native of Philadelphia and throughout his long life he dwelt on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, at Kingsessing, in the house where he was born on 20 April 1739. As the son of the celebrated botanist John Bartram (1699-1777) ...
[...]
On 22 July 1823 he spent the morning in his study and rising to walk into the garden, suddenly collapsed and died, aged 84. ...
[...]

William Bartram was also a close friend of the Great US ornithologist Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), all the way from 1802, until Wilson's early Death:

Elliot Coues nicely described their Relationship when he stated “Wilson is often called the “father of American ornithology;” if this designation be apt, then Bartram may be styled its godfather. Few are fully aware how much Wilson owed to Bartram, his “guide, philosopher, and friend,” ...
[...]

Unfortunately, due to copyright rules, I cannot quote all of it here.

/B

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*Biographies for Birdwatchers – The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names (Revised and expanded edition), by Barbara Mearns and Richard Mearns (662 pages, in two volumes), © 2022.