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'''William Mitten''' was born in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex on 30th November 1819. He had four daughters, his oldest Annie Mitten married Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) in 1866. Three other daughters were not married. |
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One of the daughters Flora Mitten provided assistance in compiling notes for William Edward Nicholson<ref>William Edward Nicholson</ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/155507a0 who wrote an excellent sketch with bibliography <ref>sketch with bibliography</ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/3237798?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents on William Mitten. |
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William Mitten died on 20 July 1906. |
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'''William Mitten''' (1819-1906) was an [[English people|English]] pharmaceutical chemist and authority on [[bryophytes]] who has been called "the premier [[bryologist]] of the second half of the nineteenth century".<ref>{{cite web|title=William Mitten papers|publisher=The New York Botanical Garden|url=http://library.nybg.org/finding_guide/archv/mitten_ppf.html}}</ref> |
'''William Mitten''' (1819-1906) was an [[English people|English]] pharmaceutical chemist and authority on [[bryophytes]] who has been called "the premier [[bryologist]] of the second half of the nineteenth century".<ref>{{cite web|title=William Mitten papers|publisher=The New York Botanical Garden|url=http://library.nybg.org/finding_guide/archv/mitten_ppf.html}}</ref> |
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William Mitten was born in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex on 30th November 1819. He had four daughters, his oldest Annie Mitten married Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) in 1866. Three other daughters were not married. One of the daughters Flora Mitten provided assistance in compiling notes for William Edward Nicholson[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/155507a0 who wrote an excellent sketch with bibliography [2]https://www.jstor.org/stable/3237798?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents on William Mitten. William Mitten died on 20 July 1906.
William Mitten (1819-1906) was an English pharmaceutical chemist and authority on bryophytes who has been called "the premier bryologist of the second half of the nineteenth century".[3]
He built up a collection of some 50,000 specimens of bryophytes (mosses, lichens and liverworts) at his home in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. The collection was largely made up of specimens collected around the world by other collectors and is now at the New York Botanical Garden, having been purchased after his death. These collectors included Richard Spruce and also Alfred Russel Wallace, who subsequently became Mitten's son-in-law.
References
- ^ William Edward Nicholson
- ^ sketch with bibliography
- ^ "William Mitten papers". The New York Botanical Garden.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Mitt.
Sources
- Lawley, Mark. "William Mitten (1819-1906)" (PDF). British Bryological Society.
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