Thomas Nuttall

Thomas Nuttall (born January 5, 1786 in Long Preston near Settle in Yorkshire , † September 10, 1859 in Nutgrove near Rainhill in Lancashire ) was a British botanist and zoologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Nutt. "

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Nuttall was a printer in England for a few years before emigrating to North America in the USA . In Philadelphia he made the acquaintance of Benjamin Smith Barton , who encouraged him to study botany and to become a plant collector. In 1823 Nuttall was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

After extensive travels within North America, Nuttall worked from 1836 to 1841 at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Various taxa are named after Nuttall : animals such as the yellow-billed lobster ( Pica nuttalli ) or the mountain cottontail rabbit ( Sylvilagus nuttallii ), but also plants such as the narrow-leaved waterweed ( Elodea nuttallii ) or Nuttall's dogwood ( Cornus nuttallii ). The plant genera Nuttallia Raf were also named after him . from the family of loasaceae (Loasaceae) and Nuttallanthus D.A.Sutton from the family of plantain plants named (Plantaginaceae).

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The genera of North American plants , 1818
New genera and species of plants , 1840
The North American sylva , 1842-1849.

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

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Thomas Nuttall at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Nuttall, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English botanist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Long Preston at Settle , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1859
Place of death	Nutgrove at Rainhill , Lancashire

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .