> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 1011](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190482) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8764-1) LSID 8764-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6256064) QID Q6256064 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rutty, John (1697-1775), British (English) physician; MD Leiden 1723; physician at Dublin 1724-1775. **Abbreviated name**: *Rutty* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rutty*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 195; BB p. 265; BL 2: 285, 711; BM 4: 1774; Desmond p. 536 (b. 25 Dec 1697, d. 26 Apr 1775); DNB 50: 31-32; Dryander 3: 550; Rehder 3: 253. #### Biofile - Anon., Notes and Queries. ser. 2. 7: 147-148, 264 (ref. to biogr. sketch in Dublin Quart. J. med. Sci., Mai 1847 by J. Osborne), 324, 423. 1859. - Colgan, N., Fl. county Dublin xxii-xxiii. 1904 (on R.'s work on this flora). - Davies, G.L.H., Irish Geogr. 12: 92-98. 1979, Western Natural. 7: 92. 1978 (on R.'s geological work). - Fox, R.H., Dr. John Fothergill 41, 128. 1919. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. entom. 328. 1977. - Knowles, M.C., Proc. R. Irish Acad. 38 (B, 10): 180. 1929 (lichens). - Mitchell, M.E., Bibl. Irish lichenol. 56. 1971. - Nelson, E.C., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 9(3): 291. 1979 (note on R.'s annotated copy of Threlkeld's Syn. stirp. Hibern. in Royal Irish Academy, Dublin); Huntia 4(2):1 133. 1982; Occ. Pap. Natl. Bot. Gard. Glasnevin 1982: 106 (list of copies of *Essay* in Ireland). - Praeger, R.L., Some Irish naturalists 150. 1949. - Rutty, J., A spiritual diary and soliloquies, Dublin 1776 (posthumously publ. autobiogr.; mainly religious). - Widdess, J.D.H., A history of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 1654-1963, London 1963, p. 73-75. #### Eponymy *Ruttya* W.H. Harvey (1842); X *Ruttyruspolia* \[*Ruttya* W.H. Harvey X *Ruspolia* Lindau (1896)\] Meeuse\[fix\] et Wet (1961). #### Note We are grateful to E.C. Nelson, Dublin, who supplied most of the information for this entry on J. Rutty. Rutty's botanical work is recorded in mss. in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (minute books of the Dublin physico-historical Society, his own annotated copy of Threlkeld) as well as in his book on Dublin. ### Publications ##### n.9844. An essay towards a natural history of the county of Dublin **Title** *An essay towards a natural history of the county of Dublin*, accomodated to the noble designs of the Dublin Society; affording a summary view. i. Of its vegetables, with their mechanical and oeconomical uses, and as food for men and cattle; a catalogue of our vegetable poisons; and a botanical kalendar, exhibiting the respective months in which most of the simples in use are found in flower. ii. Of its animals. iii. Of its soil,... iv. Of the nature of the climate,... Dublin (printed by W. Sleater,... for the author) 1772. 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essay nat. hist. Dublin*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 2 vols., 1772. *Copies*: DBN, GOET, HU, ILL, KU, PH, TCD. *1*: \[i\]-xiv, \[1\]-4, \[1\]-392, *pl. 1-5* \[*pl. 1* is a fold-out frontisp. map). Plants on p. 33-261. See also BL 2: 285. – Errata sheet for both volumes attached to 1: xiv in copy ILL. *2*: \[i\]-v, \[vi\], \[1\]-488, tables 1-7, fold-out tables 1-4, \[1\].