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Shuttleworth, Robert James (1810-1874)
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)
Robert James
Last name
Shuttleworth
Initials
R.J.
Life Dates
1810 - 1874
Collecting Dates
1831 - 1873
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), AK, BERN, CGE, DBN, DPU (currently NY), E, E-GL, EBH (currently E), FI, FRS, G, GH, KIEL, L, MANCH, MICH, NA, NEU, NMW, NY, OXF, P, PH, U, W
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland
Associate(s)
Huet du Pavillon, Alfred (1829-1907) (co-collector)
Meisner, Carl Daniel Friedrich (1800-1874) (correspondent)
Moggridge, Johann Traherne (1842-1874) (co-collector)
Meisner, Carl Daniel Friedrich (1800-1874) (correspondent)
Moggridge, Johann Traherne (1842-1874) (co-collector)
Biography
British doctor, malacologist and botanist who trained in medicine at the universities of Geneva and Edinburgh. He married Susette De Sury (1833) and moved from England to Berne, Switzerland (1833-1866) and later retired to Hyeres, France (1866-1874). Shuttleworth collected mainly in the British Isles and other parts of Europe with particular attention to the Alps; references to material from elsewhere are probably from other collectors ex herbario. As an authority he is associated with plants worldwide. Many taxa are named after Shutleworth including Shuttleworthia Meisn. (usually treated as a synonym of Verbena, Hexastylis shuttleworthii (Britten & Baker f.) Small (syn. Asarum shuttleworthii Britten & Baker f.), Tragopogon shuttleworthii Godet and Vitis shuttleworthii House.
Though his malacological collections went to the Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, the personal herbarium of R.J. Shuttleworth was one of the most significant botanical acquisitions ever made by BM and comprised some 170,000 specimens from around the world. Purchased in 1877 it includes the herbaria of J.J. Roemer (1763-1819) and others, but also collections from over 100 contemporary botanists collecting in the first half of the 19th century. Some additional cryptogamic specimens from Shuttleworth's herbarium that were originally donated to Kew (1938) were transferred to BM under the Morton Agreement after 1961, but the exact detail of the large-scale Morton transfer was never fully documented.
Though his malacological collections went to the Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, the personal herbarium of R.J. Shuttleworth was one of the most significant botanical acquisitions ever made by BM and comprised some 170,000 specimens from around the world. Purchased in 1877 it includes the herbaria of J.J. Roemer (1763-1819) and others, but also collections from over 100 contemporary botanists collecting in the first half of the 19th century. Some additional cryptogamic specimens from Shuttleworth's herbarium that were originally donated to Kew (1938) were transferred to BM under the Morton Agreement after 1961, but the exact detail of the large-scale Morton transfer was never fully documented.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 590; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 60; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 242; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 105, 182; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 889;
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)
Robert James
Last name
Shuttleworth
Initials
R.J.
Life Dates
1810 - 1874
Collecting Dates
1831 - 1873
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), AK, BERN, CGE, DBN, DPU (currently NY), E, E-GL, EBH (currently E), FI, FRS, G, GH, KIEL, L, MANCH, MICH, NA, NEU, NMW, NY, OXF, P, PH, U, W
Countries
Europe: United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland
Associate(s)
Huet du Pavillon, Alfred (1829-1907) (co-collector)
Meisner, Carl Daniel Friedrich (1800-1874) (correspondent)
Moggridge, Johann Traherne (1842-1874) (co-collector)
Meisner, Carl Daniel Friedrich (1800-1874) (correspondent)
Moggridge, Johann Traherne (1842-1874) (co-collector)
Biography
British doctor, malacologist and botanist who trained in medicine at the universities of Geneva and Edinburgh. He married Susette De Sury (1833) and moved from England to Berne, Switzerland (1833-1866) and later retired to Hyeres, France (1866-1874). Shuttleworth collected mainly in the British Isles and other parts of Europe with particular attention to the Alps; references to material from elsewhere are probably from other collectors ex herbario. As an authority he is associated with plants worldwide. Many taxa are named after Shutleworth including Shuttleworthia Meisn. (usually treated as a synonym of Verbena, Hexastylis shuttleworthii (Britten & Baker f.) Small (syn. Asarum shuttleworthii Britten & Baker f.), Tragopogon shuttleworthii Godet and Vitis shuttleworthii House.
Though his malacological collections went to the Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, the personal herbarium of R.J. Shuttleworth was one of the most significant botanical acquisitions ever made by BM and comprised some 170,000 specimens from around the world. Purchased in 1877 it includes the herbaria of J.J. Roemer (1763-1819) and others, but also collections from over 100 contemporary botanists collecting in the first half of the 19th century. Some additional cryptogamic specimens from Shuttleworth's herbarium that were originally donated to Kew (1938) were transferred to BM under the Morton Agreement after 1961, but the exact detail of the large-scale Morton transfer was never fully documented.
Though his malacological collections went to the Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, the personal herbarium of R.J. Shuttleworth was one of the most significant botanical acquisitions ever made by BM and comprised some 170,000 specimens from around the world. Purchased in 1877 it includes the herbaria of J.J. Roemer (1763-1819) and others, but also collections from over 100 contemporary botanists collecting in the first half of the 19th century. Some additional cryptogamic specimens from Shuttleworth's herbarium that were originally donated to Kew (1938) were transferred to BM under the Morton Agreement after 1961, but the exact detail of the large-scale Morton transfer was never fully documented.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 590; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 60; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 242; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 105, 182; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 889;
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