Patterson, Harry Norton (1853-1919)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Harry Norton
Last name
Patterson
Initials
H.N.
Life Dates
1853 - 1919
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
F (main), AK, BM, C, CART, CGE, CM, E, G, GH, HBG, ILL, ISC, ISM, L, LE, LY, MANCH, MICH, MO, MSC, NA, ND, NY, NYS, OS, OXF, P, PH, QK, RPM, US, VT, WELC, WRSL
Countries
North American region: United States
Biography
American printer and plant collector. Harry Norton Patterson was born in Oquawka, Illinois and was based there for most of his life. Working as a printer he edited the Oquawka Spectator and specialised in printing botanical lists and labels. As a botanist and plant collector Patterson amassed an extensive collection from the Oquawka region and Colorado which included an early collection of Illinois bryophytes now housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (F). Patterson published several botanical works of his own, including "A List of plants collected in the vicinity of Oquawka, Henderson County, Ills" (published in 1874 in the Oquawka Spectator) and most importantly Patterson's numbered checklist of North American plants north of Mexico (1892).

Sources:
R.H. Mohlenbrock, 1982, "Illinois Solanaceae in the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium and Biographical Sketches of Some Collectors", Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 69(2): 382-392.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 482; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 653;
Patterson, Harry Norton (1853-1919)
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