Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist)

Joseph Jackson Lister (born August 3, 1857 in Leytonstone , Essex , † February 5, 1927 in Grantchester , Cambridgeshire ) was an English zoologist and botanist. His main research interests were the foraminifera . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JJLister ".

Live and act

Lister was the son of the wine merchant and mycologist Arthur Lister (1830-1908) and the brother of the mycologist Gulielma Lister (1860-1949). His uncle Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) was a well-known Quaker and medic. In 1876 he was admitted to St John's College , Cambridge (Matriculation Michaelmas). In 1880 he obtained his Bachelor of Arts and in 1883 his Master of Arts. In 1881 he became a demonstrator in comparative anatomy at St John's College and in 1892 senior lecturer in animal morphology at the University of Cambridge . As a naturalist, Lister made two voyages on the survey ship HMS Egeria. The first went to the Indian Ocean and the second to the South Pacific . In 1887 he and other officers of the HMS Egeria collected plants on Christmas Island . Lister's other destinations were the Seychelles , Tonga , the Union Islands (now Tokelau ), the Phoenix Islands , Australia , New Zealand , Bhutan , Algeria and the Canary Islands . In 1900 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society .

Lister studied several different organisms, including birds and plants. However, his main focus was on the foraminifera , on which he wrote the first essential description of the life cycle in 1895. He also published the first scientific descriptions of the Christmas Island gray owl ( Ninox natalis ) and the white-fronted spectacle bird ( Zosterops natalis ).

Dedication names

The orchid species Phreatia listeri , the palm species Arenga listeri , Abutilon listeri and the gecko species Lepidodactylus listeri are named after Joseph Jackson Lister . Oldfield Thomas named the long-tailed giant rat Leopoldamys listeri after Lister in 1916 . However, the taxon is now invalid and is considered a synonym for Leopoldamys edwardsi .

literature

• Lister, Joseph Jackson . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 178 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Lister, Joseph Jackson (1857-1927). at plants.jstor.org
• Short biography in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Joseph Jackson Lister (natural scientist) at the IPNI