Samuel Dale

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Samuel Dale (* 1659 in Whitechapel , † June 6, 1739 in Bocking , Essex ) was an English doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " S.Dale ".

Life

Samuel Dale is the son of North Dale, a silkworm from Whitechapel. He ran a pharmacy in Braintree and was a neighbor and friend of John Ray . He received his doctorate in medicine.

In 1693 his Pharmacologia appeared , a collection of names and synonyms of medicinal products, each with a brief reference to their effect. In 1705 the work was supplemented. From 1692 to 1736 he wrote articles for the Philosophical Transactions .

In 1730 he received a licentiate from the Royal College of Physicans and moved to Bocking where he practiced until the end of his life.

Dale introduced many exotic plants to Britain, including plants obtained from Mark Catesby of Carolina .

Dedication names

Carl von Linné named the genus Dalea of the legume plant family (Fabaceae) in his honor .

Fonts

Works

  • Pharmacologia, seu Manuductio ad materiam medicam in qua medicamenta officinalia simplicia, hoc est mineralia, vegetabilia, animalia earúmque partes in medicina officinis usitata, in methodum naturalem digesta succinctè & accurate describuntur: cum notis generum characteristicis, specierum synonymis, differentiis & viribus: opus omnibus medicis, philosophis, pharmacopœis, chirurgis, & pharmacopolis utilissimum. London 1693, ( Tertia Editio ... )
  • Pharmacologiae, seu, Manuductionis ad materiam medicam supplementum: medicamenta officinalia simplicia priore libro omissa, complectens: ut & notas generum characteristicas, specierum synonyma, differentias, & vires: cum duplici indice ... London, 1705
  • The history and antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt topographical, dynastical and political. First collected by Silas Taylor alias Domville, gent. ... and now much enlarged in all its parts with notes and observations relating to natural history . London, 1730

Contributions to the Philosophical Transactions (selection)

  • An Abstract of a Letter Sent from Mr. Samuel Dale to Mr. John Houghton, SRS concerning the Making of Turnep-Bread in Essex . Volume 17, 1693
  • A Letter from Mr. Samuel Dale, Giving a Further Account of Some Coins Sound at Honedon in Suffolk . Volume 17, 1693
  • Three Queries Relating to Shells Proposed by Mr. Samuel Dale, and Answered by Dr. Martyn Lister. RSS . Volume 17, 1693
  • An Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Dale, to Dr William Briggs, MDFRS Concerning a Contumaecious Jaundise, Accompanied with a Very Odd Case in Vision . Volume 18, 1694
  • Part of Two Letters from Mr Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Repository in Oxford, to Mr Samuel Dale of Braintree in Essex, concerning Fossil . Volume 24, 1704/1705
  • A Letter from Mr Samuel Dale to Mr Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Repository in Oxford, concerning Harwich Cliff, and the Fossil Shells There . Volume 24, 1704/1705
  • Part of a Letter from the Late Sir Philip Skippon, Kt, to the Late Reverend Mr John Ray, concerning the Bones of a Humane Foetus Voided thro 'an Impostume in the Groin. Communicated to the Publisher, by Mr Samuel Dale . Volume 24, 1704/1705
  • Observations Made at Rome, by the Late Reverend Mr. John Ray, of the Comet Which Appeared Anno 1664. Communicated to the Publisher by Mr. Samuel Dale . Volume 25, 1706/1707
  • A Letter from Mr Samuel Dale to Dr Hans Sloane, RS Secr. Giving an Account of What Manuscripts Were Left by Mr John Ray, Together with Some Anatomical Observations Made at Padua by the Said Mr Ray . Volume 25, 1706/1707
  • A Letter from Samuel Dale, ML to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President of the Royal Society, Containing the Descriptions of the Moose-Deer of New-England, and a Sort of Stag in Virginia; With Some Re-Marks Relating to Mr. Ray's Description of the Flying Squirrel of America . Volume 39, 1735/1736

literature

  • AD Morris: Samuel Dale (1659-1739), physician and geologist. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Volume 67, Number 2, February 1974, pp. 120-124, PMID 20919154 , PMC 1645275 (free full text).
  • James Britten and George S. Boulger: A Biographical Index of Deceased British and Irish Botanists . London, 1931.
  • Henry Field: Memoirs, historical and illustrative of the botanick garden at Chelsea, London . 1820, p. 43 ff.
  • Richard Pulteney : Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England: from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean system . London, 1790, Volume 2, p. 122 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
  2. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 366.
personal data
SURNAME Dale, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitechapel
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1739
Place of death Bocking , Essex