> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 717](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120848) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2447-1) LSID 2447-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q474250) QID Q474250 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Eaton, Amos (1776-1842), American botanist, lecturer and writer; great popularizer of botanical science. **Abbreviated name**: *Eaton* \[standard form in IPNI: *Eaton*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection YU|YU]]. – Merrill and Reeder examined the herbarium and found that it contained only a few types. Eaton preserved only small scraps of specimens collected by himself; the great majority of the material must have been discarded by him. Eaton letters to Torrey at [[Collection NY|NY]]. *Ref*.: Merrill and Reeder, Bartonia 24: 41-45. 1947. - Merrill, Rhodora 48: 201-205. 1948. - Martin, *in* Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. (Torrey corr.) 455. 1973. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 353; Barnhart 1: 491; BM 2: 506, 6: 290; Bossert p. 112; CSP 2: 434-435; DAB 5: 605-606; GR p. 187; IF p. 396, suppl. 1: 81; Jackson p. 8, 37, 38, 354, 355, 364; Langman p. 258; LS 7576; MD p. 100-107; ME 1: 180, 3: 568; Merrill p. 695-696, 720; PR 2593, ed. 1: 2882-2884; Quenstedt p. 124. - Anon., Pop. Sci. Monthly 38: 113-118. 1890. - Gray, letters 2: 832 \[index\]. 1893. - Youmans, Pioneers of Science in America 111-118. 1896. - Knowlton, The plant world 1: 17-18. 1897 (portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 178. 1903. - Merrill, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 695-696, 720-721. - Tucker, Cat. Library Arnold Arb. 1: 223. 1914. - Barnhart, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 16: 293. 1921. - Rickett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Amos Eaton, Troy 1933, 32 p. (portr.) - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 347 \[index\]. 1940. - McAllister, Amos Eaton, Philadelphia 1941. - Good, H. G., Sci. Monthly 53: 464-469. 1941. - Rodgers, John Torrey 340 \[index\]. 1942. - Dupree, Asa Gray 485-486 \[index\]. 1959. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 193, 221-222, 342, 465. 1969. - Ewan, Short History Bot. U.S. 164 \[index\]. 1969. - Rezneck, DSB 4: 273-275. 1971 (q.v. for further sec. ref.) #### Eponymy *Eatonia* Rafinesque (1819). – *Note*: *Eatonella* A. Gray (1883) is dedicated to Daniel Cady Eaton (1834-1895), q.v. ### Publications ##### n.1614. A manual of botany **Title** *A manual of botany* for the northern states. Comprising generic descriptions of all phenogamous and cryptogamous plants to the North of Virginia, hitherto described; with references to the natural orders of Linnaeus and Jussieu. Each genus is further illustrated by short descriptions of its most common species. By the members of the botanical class in Williams' College (Mass.). From a manuscript system, compiled by the author of Richard's botanical dictionary, Albany (Websters and Skinners) 1817. Duod. (in sixes) **Abbreviated title**: *Man. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: the titles of the eight editions vary; for detailed transcriptions and for collations (eds. 1-7) see Margadant (MD). The eighth edition, by Eaton and Wright, is entitled *North American Botany*. All except the first bear the author's name. Merrill and Reeder list the new names of phanerogams in all editions. They also provide a key (p. 39) to Eaton's sometimes very cryptic abbreviations of names of authors and of localities. |ed. |dates |pages |deails| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |18-31 Jul 1817 |\[1\]-vi, 1-164 (107 as "701") |author's name not on t.p. Copies: Ewan, NY.| |2 |Jun 1818 |\[1 = i\]-\[12\], 1-524<br/>Duod. in sixes |t.p. see MD; second edition, corrected and enlarged. Copies: HH, HU.| |3 |23 Mar-23 Apr 1822 |\[1\]-536<br/>Duod. in sixes |issue 1: "A manual ..."; issue 2: "Manual ..."; t.p. see MD; Copies: BM, FAS(2), NY.| |4 |Feb-Dec 1824 |\[i\]-\[x\], 11-539<br/>Duod. in sixes |Copy: NY; Collab.: Lewis Caleb Beck (1798-1853).| |5 |Sep 1829 |\[1\]-452\], \[1\]-60, 51, 52, 53\[= 61-63\], \[1-71\] |Orig. issue: FAS, HH, NY, US; 2nd copy HH: p. 13-24 reprinted in other type; Collab.: William Edward A. Aikin (1807-1888), H.H. Eaton (1809-1832).| |6 |22 Mai-3 Jun 1833 |\[i\]-x, 11-103, 1-401, 1-137, \[138, err.\]<br/>Duod. in sixes |Copies: BM, NY, MO, U; Collab.: James Hall (1811-1898), S.W. Williams (1812-1884).| |7 |Apr-Mai 1836 |\[i\]-vi, 7-672<br/>Duod. in sixes |Collab.: James Hall (1811-1898). Copies: HU, MO, NY, U, US.| |8 |Jun 1840 |\[i\]-\[viii\], \[1\]-625 |Copies: BM, NY, E.G. Voss.| *Ed. 8*: *North American botany*; comprising the native and common cultivated plants north of Mexico: genera arranged according to the artificial and natural methods. By Amos Eaton... and John Wright... Eighth edition; with the very valuable addition of the properties of plants, from Lindley's New Medical Flora... \[quotation Linneus, sic\] Troy, (Elias Gates) N.Y. 1840. Qu. *Ref*.: BM 2: 502; Jackson p. 354; MD p. 100-107; ME 3: 378; PR 2593; RS p. 81; SA p. 54, 55; SO Add. 807a-c; IDC 5915, 5069. - Rafinesque, Amer. monthly Mag. crit. Rev. 1: 426-430. Oct. 1817 (rev. ed.). - Tucker, Cat. Library Arnold Arb. 1: 223. 1914. - McAllister, Amos Eaton 1941. - Merrill and Reeder, Bartonia 24: 26-79. 1946 \[1947\] (new names by Eaton). - Merrill, Amer. Fern J. 37: 6-10. 1947. ##### n.1615. A botanical dictionary **Title** *A botanical dictionary*, being a translation from the french of Louis-Claude Richard, professor of botany at the medical school in Paris with additions from Martyn, Smith, Milne, Wildenow, Acharius, &c. New Haven (Hezekiah Howe) 1817. Duod. (in sixes) **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. Dict.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: anonymous but by A. Eaton, 1817, p. \[i\]-vi, \[7\]-14, Dict. sign. B-2/0, P, err. \[1\]. *Copy*: Ewan. *Ed. 2*: (*n.v.*) *Ed. 3*: "Botanical grammar and dictionary; translated from the french of Bulliard and Richard... Third edition, wholly written over, and now including the natural orders of Linnaeus and Jussieu." Albany (Websters and Skinners) 1828. Duod. (in sixes), p. \[1\]-53, dictionary \[1-71\]. *Copies*: HU, NY. – Published separately and with Manual ed. 5. "Advertisement" dated 29 Aug 1828. *Ed. 4*: "Eaton's botanical grammar and dictionary, modernized down to 1836: published for a companion of Steele's seventh edition of the Manual of botany. Fourth edition." Albany (Oliver Steele) 1836. Duod. (in sixes), p. \[1\]-125, often bound with ed. 7 of Eaton's Manual. *Copies*: HU, MO, NY, U, US.