Daniel Cady Eaton | |
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 Portrait of Eaton by George Rockwood, 1864 | |
| Born | September 12, 1834 |
| Died | June 29, 1895 (aged 60) |
| Education | Yale College Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Botanist, professor |
| Employer | Yale University |
Daniel Cady Eaton (September 12, 1834 – June 29, 1895)[1] was an American botanist and author. After studies at the Rensselaer Institute in Troy and Russell's military school in New Haven,[2] he gained his bachelor's degree at Yale College, then went on to Harvard University, where he studied with Asa Gray. He then went to Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School in 1864, where he was a botany professor[3]: 8 and herbarium curator. With William Gilson Farlow and Charles Lewis Anderson he issued the exsiccata series Algae exsiccatae Americae Borealis (1877-1889).[4] Eaton is the grandson of Amos Eaton.[5]
He also worked in Utah, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary Survey, and various geological surveys.
- ^ Find A Grave
- ^ "Daniel Cady Eaton", American Journal of Science, August 1895, p. 184.
- ^ Dingus, Lowell (2018). King of the Dinosaur Hunters : the life of John Bell Hatcher and the discoveries that shaped paleontology. Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781681778655.
- ^ "Algae exsiccatae Americae Borealis, curantibus W. G. Farlow, C. L. Anderson, D. C. Eaton: IndExs ExsiccataID=1875584127". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ Dupree, A. Hunter (1988). Asa Gray, American Botanist, Friend of Darwin. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-801-83741-8.