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NUTTALL, THOMAS (1786-1859)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 928 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
NUTTALL, THOMAS (1786-1859) ,
English
  botanist and ornithologist, who lived and worked in America from 18o8 until 1842, was born at Settle in Yorkshire on the 5th of January 1786, and spent some years as a journeyman printer in England. Soon after going to the United States he was induced by Professor B. S.
Barton
  (1766-1815) to apply himself to the study of the
plants
  of that country. In 1825-1834 he was curator or the botanic gardens of Harvard university. In 1834 he crossed the continent to the Pacific Ocean, and visited the Hawaiian Islands. Some property having been left him in England on
condition
  of his residing on it during
part
  of each year, he left America in 1842, and did not again revisit it except for a short time in 1852. He died at St Helens, Lancashire, on the loth of
September 1859.
Almost the whole of his scientific
work
  was done in the United States, and his published works appeared there. The more important of these are, The Genera of' orth American
Plants
 , and a Catalogue of the Species to the year 1817 (2 vols., 1818) ;
Journal
  . of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 (1821); The North American Sylva: Trees not described by F. A. Michaux (3 vols., 1842-1849) ;
Manual
  of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832 and 1834); and numerous papers in American scientific
periodicals
 .


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