Jonathan Salt (botanist)
Jonathan Salt (1759–1815) was a cutler and local naturalist who catalogued plants growing in the Sheffield area.[1] [2]
He created a herbarium between 1773 and 1809, which provided the specimens for his Flora Sheffieldiensis.[3] Although being used extensively by Frederick Arnold Lees in his The Flora of West Yorkshire with a sketch of the climatology and lithology in connection therewith (1888), the catalogue only existed in manuscript form until its publication in The Story of South Yorkshire Botany in 2011.[2]
Plants first recorded by Salt[edit]
Lees referenced a number of plants first identified by Salt:[4] Some are listed here:
- Hordeum murinum or Wall Barley: First Record Salt, 1800: 498
- Nardus stricta, or Matt-grass: First Record Salt, 1800: 498
References[edit]
- ^ Davis, Peter (April 2012). "COLES, G. L. D. The story of South Yorkshire botany and the 'Flora Sheffieldiensis' of Jonathan Salt . Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Kendal: 2011". Archives of Natural History. 39 (1): 189–190. doi:10.3366/anh.2012.0089. ISSN 0260-9541.
- ^ a b The Story of South Yorkshire Botany
- ^ Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (2002). "Placing Nature: Natural History Collections and Their Owners in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England". The British Journal for the History of Science. 35 (3): 291–311. doi:10.1017/S0007087402004727. ISSN 0007-0874. JSTOR 4028125. PMID 12395797. S2CID 25454499.
- ^ Lees, Frederic Arnold (1888). The Flora of West Yorkshire: With a Sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in Connection Therewith. London: Lovell Reeve.