Robert James Shuttleworth
Robert James Shuttleworth (* 1810 in Dawlish , Devonshire , † April 18, 1874 in Hyères ) was a British botanist and malacologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Shuttlew. "
Life
Shuttleworth came from a wealthy family and went to school in Geneva, where, under the influence of the botanist Nicolas Charles Seringe, his interest in plants began, which he studied in the Geneva area. In 1828 he visited Germany, including Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Frankfurt and Heidelberg. Then he went back to his family in Solothurn, Switzerland, and collected in the Swiss Jura. From 1830 to 1832 he studied medicine in Edinburgh . During this time he helped out in the hospital during a cholera epidemic and was on the estate of his stepbrother in Ireland during the famine of 1831/32. He also collected plants in the highlands. In 1833 he became a captain in the British army, but soon went back to Switzerland, where he married and settled in Bern. The marriage resulted in a son and a daughter who died young.
In Bern he continued to collect plants in the area and researched freshwater algae with the microscope, for example the blood- snow phenomenon, which he published about in 1840. He acquired the herbarium from Joseph August Schultes in 1835 and made friends with the naturalist Johann von Charpentier in the 1840s , through whom he was encouraged to collect conchylia . Shuttleworth paid colleagues to collect them in Corsica, the Canary Islands, and Puerto Rico, North and South America. He himself collected in the summer months in southern France, where he worked with Edmont Huet and others (Huet published a catalog of this herbarium in 1889). After the early death of his son in 1866, he gave up science and moved to Hyères.
His extensive herbarium came to the Natural History Museum , his Conchylia collection to the Natural History Museum in Bern . There are some treatises on botany and malacology by him .
In 1856 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and in 1836 he was a founding member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. He was an honorary doctor from the University of Basel.
Honor
In 1846, Carl Meissner described the plant genus Shuttleworthia from the Verbenaceae family in honor of Shuttleworth , which is now considered a synonym for the genus Glandularia . The cattail Typha shuttleworthii is named after Shuttleworth who discovered it.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Robert James Shuttleworth at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shuttleworth, Robert James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British botanist and malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dawlish |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1874 |
| Place of death | Hyeres |