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THOMAS NUTTALL (1786-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:NUTTALL (1786-1859)  , See also:English botanist and ornithologist, who lived and worked in See also:America from 18o8 until 1842, was See also:born at See also:Settle in See also:Yorkshire on the 5th of See also:January 1786, and spent some years as a journeyman printer in See also:England . Soon after going to the See also:United States he was induced by See also:Professor B . S . See also:Barton (1766-1815) to apply himself to the study of the See also:plants of that See also:country . In 1825-1834 he was See also:curator or the botanic gardens of Harvard university . In 1834 he crossed the See also:continent to the Pacific Ocean, and visited the Hawaiian Islands . Some See also:property having been See also:left him in England on See also:condition of his residing on it during See also:part of each See also:year, he left America in 1842, and did not again revisit it except for a See also:short See also:time in 1852 . He died at St Helens, See also:Lancashire, on the loth of See also:September 1859 . Almost the whole of his scientific See also:work was done in the United States, and his published See also:works appeared there . The more important of these are, The Genera of' orth See also:American Plants, and a See also:Catalogue of the See also:Species to the year 1817 (2 vols., 1818) ; See also:Journal . of Travels into the See also:Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 (1821); The See also:North American Sylva: Trees not described by F . A . Michaux (3 vols., 1842-1849) ; See also:Manual of the See also:Ornithology of the United States and of See also:Canada (1832 and 1834); and numerous papers in American scientific See also:periodicals .

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