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Meese, David (1723-1770)
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)
David
Last name
Meese
Initials
D.
Life Dates
1723 - 1770
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
GRO
Countries
Europe: Netherlands
Biography
Dutch gardener at the Friesian University in Franeker. David Meese published a flora of his local region, the Flora frisica (1760), which followed the Linnaean system. This work was in Dutch and did not contain trivial names. His other great work was a botanical text book, of which he published two parts in 1763 in both Latin and Dutch. Known for his experiments into the physiology of mosses, he investigated the propagation of the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune Hedw. The genus Meesia Gaertn. Was named after him in 1788.
Sources:
J. Lindley, 1836, A natural system of botany, or, A systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution, of the whole vegetable kingdom
F.A. Stafleu, 1971, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans.
Sources:
J. Lindley, 1836, A natural system of botany, or, A systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution, of the whole vegetable kingdom
F.A. Stafleu, 1971, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): ; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): ; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): ;
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)
David
Last name
Meese
Initials
D.
Life Dates
1723 - 1770
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
GRO
Countries
Europe: Netherlands
Biography
Dutch gardener at the Friesian University in Franeker. David Meese published a flora of his local region, the Flora frisica (1760), which followed the Linnaean system. This work was in Dutch and did not contain trivial names. His other great work was a botanical text book, of which he published two parts in 1763 in both Latin and Dutch. Known for his experiments into the physiology of mosses, he investigated the propagation of the common hair moss, Polytrichum commune Hedw. The genus Meesia Gaertn. Was named after him in 1788.
Sources:
J. Lindley, 1836, A natural system of botany, or, A systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution, of the whole vegetable kingdom
F.A. Stafleu, 1971, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans.
Sources:
J. Lindley, 1836, A natural system of botany, or, A systematic view of the organization, natural affinities, and geographical distribution, of the whole vegetable kingdom
F.A. Stafleu, 1971, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): ; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): ; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): ;
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