Daniel Cady Eaton

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Occupation Botanist, professor Name Daniel Eaton		Role Author Employer Yale University

Born September 12, 1834 ( 1834-09-12 ) Fort Gratiot, Michigan Died 1895, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Books The ferns of North America Education Harvard University, Yale University Similar People Robert Ridgway, Clarence King, James Hall, William Henry Harvey, John Cassin

Daniel Cady Eaton (September 12, 1834 – June 29, 1895) was an American botanist and author. After studies at the Rensselaer Institute in Troy and Russell's military school in New Haven, he gained his bachelor's degree at Yale College, then went on to Harvard University where he studied with Asa Gray. He then went back to Yale in 1864, where he was a botany professor and herbarium curator. Eaton is the grandson of Amos Eaton.

He also worked in Utah, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary Survey and various geological surveys.

Notable Publications

Beautiful Ferns; from Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature. Paintings by C. E. Faxon and J. H. Emerton. New York: Nims & Knight, Troy. 1887 (c. 1885). 96 pp, 10 plates.

Enumeration of the Ferns of Cuba and Venezuela. 1860.

The Ferns of North America: Colored Figures and Descriptions, with Synonomy and Geographical Distribution of the Ferns (Including Ophioglossaceae) of the United States of America and the British North American Possessions. Volumes 1-2. 81 color plates by James H. Emerton and C. E. Faxon. Salem, Massachusetts: S. E. Cassino. 1877-1880. Folio.

Systematic Fern List [Eastern North America]. 1880.

Partial list of species named by D. C. Eaton:

Asplenium bradleyi

Dryopteris clintoniana (as Aspidium cristatum var. clintonianum)

Pellaea mucronata

Woodsia scopulina

References

Daniel Cady Eaton Wikipedia

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