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Hutton, Henry (1825-1896)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Henry
Last name
Hutton
Initials
H.
Life Dates
1825 - 1896
Collecting Dates
1850 - 1890
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM, C, GRA, K, MO, NH, OXF, P, PRE, SAM, TCD
Countries
Madagascan region: ComorosSouthern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) (specimens to)
Hutton, Caroline (1826-1908) (co-collector, wife)
MacOwan, Peter (1830-1909) (co-collector)
Biography
English governmental official who emigrated to South Africa in 1844 and died in Rondebosch. Lanjouw and Stafleu confused the two Henry Huttons that were collecting plants in the 19th Century. Henry Hutton (1825-1896) of South Molton, Devon married Caroline Atherstone (1826-1908) in 1848 and together they collected in South Africa sending plants to J.D. Hooker and W.H. Harvey. There is a small amount of his material at BM. The genus Huttonaea Harv. and Nerine huttoniae Schönl. are South African plants named in his honour. The second collector, H. Hutton (-1868), was a plant collector for James Veitch & Sons who was sent to Java in 1866 to collect living material of orchids and worked in south-east Asia until his death just two years later.
References
Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 220; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 197; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 34; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 295;
Hutton, Henry (1825-1896)
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