> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 719](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120850) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2448-1) LSID 2448-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5216728) QID Q5216728 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Eaton, Daniel Cady (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Eaton, Daniel Cady (1834-1895), American botanist at Yale University, grandson of Amos Eaton. **Abbreviated name**: *D. C. Eaton* \[standard form in IPNI: *D.C.Eaton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection YU|YU]], algae at [[Collection F|F]]; types of names based on Fendler specimens at [[Collection GH|GH]], *Isoetes* types at [[Collection FWM|FWM]]. *Exsiccatae*: 1. (with Edwin Faxon, 1823-1898) *Sphagna boreali-americana exsiccata* (nos. 1-172, New Haven, Conn. 1896), sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. 2. *Musci orientali-americani* (1893-1894, not a true series of exsiccatae, handwritten data, no serial numbers), sets at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. 3. *Filices boreali-americani*, sets marked as such at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection YU|YU]], [[Collection US|US]]. *Note*: Edwin Faxon also issued (around 1890) a series of *North American Sphagna*. For its connection with Eaton and Faxon's *Sphagna* see Sayre p. 198. Eaton was associated with W. G. Farlow and C. L. Anderson in distributing *Algae Americae-borealis exsiccatae*, fasc. 1-5, 1877-1899 (see sub Farlow). *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 94, 2: 176. - Day, Rhodora 3: 287. 1901. - Koster, Taxon 18: 552. 1969. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(2): 196-197, 198. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 491; BL 1: 171; BM 2: 502; Bossert p. 113; CSP 2: 435, 7: 589, 9: 769, 12: 212, 14: 766; DAB 5: 606-607; IF P. 693-695; Jackson P. 357, 359, 361, 364, 509; ME 1: 180 \[biogr.\], 3: 569 \[index\]; MW p. 104; NI 575-576; PR 2594. - Gray, letters 2: 832 \[index\]. 1893. - Setchell, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 22: 341-351. 1895 (portr., bibl.) - Britton, Science ser. 2. 29: 57-58, 1895. - Davenport, Bot. Gaz. 20: 366-369. 1895 (portr.) see also J. Bot. 33: 313. 1895. - Brewer, Am. J. Sci. 50: 184-188. 1895. - Anon., Hedwigia 34 (Rep.): 165. 1895. - Urban, Symb. ant. 1: 41. 1898. - Setchell, Fern Bull. 8: 49-52. 1900 (portr.) - Milner, Cat. Portr. Kew 41. 1906. - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 347 \[index\]. 1940. - Rodgers, John Torrey 340 \[index\]. 1942. - Rodgers, John Merle Coulter 15, 30, 33, 50, 53, 78. 1944. - Rodgers, Amer. Botany 1873-1892, p. 327 \[index\], 1944. - McVaugh, Edward Palmer 4, 51, 54, 58, 1959. - Dupree, Asa Gray 486 \[index\]. 1959. - Humphrey, Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 78-79. 1961. - Ewan, Short History Botany U.S. 164 \[index\]. 1969. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 146-148, 454. 1973 (corr.) #### Composite works *Ferns, in* Chapman, *Flora of the Southern States* 1860, p. 585-602, also in ed. 2, 1883; *Equisetaceae, in* Emory, *Narrative*, U.S. and Mex. Bound. Surv. vol. 2, p. 233-236; the ferns and allied orders in A. Gray, *Manual* ed. 5. 1878, ed. 6. 1890. See further ME 3: 569. #### Eponymy *Eatonella A*. Gray (1883). ### Publications ##### n.1616. Filices wrightianae et fendlerianae **Title** *Filices wrightianae et fendlerianae*, nempe wrightianae cubenses et fendlerianae venezuelanae, (nonnullis panamensibus, etc., ex coll. A. Schott et S. Hayes interjectis,) enumeratae novaeque descriptae: dissertatio inauguralis, quam in auditorio botanico universitatis harvardianae ad gradum baccalaurealem in scientiis legitime obtinendum die xiv Jul. mdccclx. habuit Daniel C. Eaton, A. M. \[Ex Mem. Acad. Amer. Scient. et Artium, N. Ser. vol. viii\]. Cantabrigiae Nov. Angl. Dec 1860. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Filic wright.fendler.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1860 (date on t.p.; diss. was defended on 14 Jul 1860), p. \[i\], \[193\]-220 *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted, with the addition of a t.p., from Mem. Acad. Amer. Arts Sci. ser. 2. 8: \[193\]-220. 1860. ##### n.1617. The ferns of North America **Title** *The ferns of North America*. Coloured figures and descriptions, with synonymy and geographical distribution, of the Ferns (including the Ophioglossaceae) of the United States of America and the British North American possessions. Salem (S. E. Cassino), Boston \[1877-\] 1879-1880, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Ferns N Amer.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in parts (months of receipt of fascicles by C. E. Faxon, confirmed by contemporary notices): |vol. |fasc. |pages |*plates* |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |\[1\]-20 |1-3 |Nov 1877| | |2 |21-44 |4-6 |Jan 1878| | |3 |45-68 |7-9 |Feb 1878| | |4-5 |69-114 |10-15 |Apr 1878| | |6-7 |115-160 |16-21 |Jul 1878| | |8-9 |161-208 |22-27 |Oct 1878| | |10-11 |209-256 |28-33 |Dec 1878| | |12-13 |257-304 |34-39 |Feb 1879| | |14-15 |305-352 |40-45 |Mai 1879| | |16 |\[i\*\], \[i\]-xiv | |Jun 1879| |2 |17 |\[1\]-32 |46-51 |Jun 1879| | |18-19 |33-80 |52-57 |Aug 1879| | |20-21 |81-128 |58-63 |Oct 1879| | |22-23 |129-176 |64-69 |Dec 1879| | |24-27 |177-272 |70-81 |Mar 1880| | |\[28\] |\[i\]-xxxi, 273-285 |Apr-Mai 1880| The plates are coloured lithographs of drawings by J. H. Emerton and C. E. Faxon. *Copies*: G, HU(2), HH, MO. *Ref*.: BM 2: 502; Jackson p. 539; NI 575; IDC 5916. - Eaton, D. C, Beautiful ferns, Boston 1886. - Day, Rhodora 20: 74-75. 1918.