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### Author
Rutherford, Daniel (1749-1819), British (Scottish) botanist, chemist and physician; MD Edinburgh 1772; practicing physician at Edinburgh 1775-1786; professor of botany and regius keeper, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1786-1819
**Abbreviated name**: *Rutherford* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rutherf.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 195; BB p. 265; BM 4: 1773; Bossert p. 343; CSP 5: 347; Dawson p. 726; Desmond p. 535 (b. 3 Nov 1749, d. 15 Dec 1819); DNB 50: 5-6; Henrey 2: 201, 202; Jackson p. 16; PR (alph.); Rehder 1: 258; SO 581.
#### Biofile
- Allibone, S.A. Grit. dict. engl. lit. 2: 1903. 1878.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 433 \[index\]. 1980.
- Dawson, W.R., Smith papers 84. 1934.
- Fletcher, H.R. & W.H. Brown, Royal Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 1670-1970; 68-80. 1970 (on R. and his gardeners at E).
- Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 27(3): 242. 1938.
- Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh herb. 125. 1970 (no specimens from his herb. found in E).
- Huntress, E.H., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 77(2): 50-51. 1949.
- Oliver, F.W., Makers Brit. bot. 1913: 290-291.
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 726. 1823.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 97. 1903.
### Publications
##### n.9840. Characteres generum plantarum
**Title**
*Characteres generum plantarum*; ex systemate vegetabilium Linnaci, et Horto kewensi; praecipue excerpti; quibus accedit series ordinum naturalium, olim a Linnaeo ipso, et nuper a cl. Jussiaeo proposita. In usus academicos. Edinburgi 1793. Oct. (in fours).
**Abbreviated title**: *Char. gen. pl.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1793, chart, p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-2, err., \[1\]-138. *Copies*: E, NY, USDA (lacks t.p.). – SO 581. – Authorship attributed to D. Rutherford e.g. by J.M. Hulth, Bibl. Linn. 1(1): 145. 1907.