Charles Daubeny
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny ( born February 11, 1795 in Stratton at Cirencester in Gloucestershire, † December 12, 1867 ) was an English naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Daubeny ".
Life and work
The son of a pastor studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, among others, John Kidd. In 1819 he undertook a geological expedition to northern France, where he mainly studied the volcanic Auvergne. He described the results in his work Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergn, which appeared in the journal The Edinburgh Journal. In 1822 he was admitted as a member of the Royal Society of London. In various research trips that took him to Hungary, Transylvania, Italy with Sicily, France and Germany, he deepened his volcanological studies and described these in turn in 1826 in the letters A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos.
1822 Daubeny was appointed as the successor of John Kidd on the chemistry chair at Oxford and had this to 1855 held. In 1834 he also took over a professorship of botany, was also the head of the Botanical Garden, Oxford. He examined there a family of location- ecological problems such as the influence of the soil and the light on the vegetation.
In 1830 he published a paper on the chemical elements iodine and bromine in the thermal springs. 1831 appeared his work Introduction to the Atomic Theory.
In 1837 he visited the USA where she gained data on thermal springs and general geology of North America.
The herbarium of Oxford bears his name.
Ehrentaxon
The plant genus Daubenya Lindl. of the subfamily Scilloideae and the hybrids Nymphaea x daubenyana WTBaxter ex Daubeny have been named after him.
Writings
- Lectures on Agriculture. 1841
- Lectures on Roman Husbandry. 1841
- Climate: an inquiry into the Causes of its differences and into its influence on Vegetable Life. 1841
- An Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients, and a Catalogue of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous to Greece and Italy. 1865