Henry Cranke Andrews

Henry Cranke Andrews (* around 1770 , † around 1830 ) was an English botanist , plant painter and engraver. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Andrews ". Because he always published as Henry C. Andrews , and because of difficulty finding records, the C. was often interpreted as an abbreviation for Charles. It was not until 2017 that his correct full name could be identified in a marriage register .

Life

His year of birth can only be roughly estimated; The exact year of his death is also not known. Andrews was a talented plant painter, but was also active as a botanist and publisher of his own richly illustrated works. He is the first to describe the plant genus Correa HC Andrews in 1798.

Honors

The genus Andreusia Vent. from the fig family (Scrophulariaceae) has been named after him.

Erica grandiflora , illustration by Henry Cranke Andrews in Colored Engravings of Heaths , Volume 1

Fonts

• Colored Engravings of Heaths. The drawings taken from living plants only. With the appropriate specific character, full description, native place of growth, and time of flowering of each; in Latin and English. Each figure accompanied by accurate dissections of the several parts ... upon which the specific distinction has been founded, according to the Linnæan system . (4 volumes; 1794-1830).
• The Botanist's Repository for new, and rare plants. Containing colored figures of such plants ... botanically arranged after the sexual system of ... Linnæus, in English and Latin. To each description is added, a short history of the plant… London (10 volumes; 1797–1814).
• The Heathery,… (6 volumes; 1804–1812).
• Geraniums: or, a Monograph of the Genus Geranium, containing colored figures of all the known species . London (2 volumes; 1805–1806).
• Roses ... 1805-1828.

literature

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ EC Nelson: Henry C. Andrews, Botanical Artist and Publisher. In: Notes and Queries , Volume 64, Number 1, 2017 pp. 95–97.
2. ↑ EC Nelson: HC Andrews Mystery Solved. In: Society for the History of Natural History Newsletter , Volume 112, 2017, pp. 18f.
3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Henry Cranke Andrews at the IPNI
• Brief description of Henry Cranke Andrews (commercial site, English)