Charles Abbot (botanist)

Charles Abbot ( * March 24, 1761, † September 8, 1817 in Bedford ) was a British botanist and entomologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.Abbot ".

Life and work

His scientific training enjoyed Abbot first at Winchester College; He completed this in 1788 at New College, Oxford with a Master's from. In 1793 he was elected member of the Linnean Society of London. In 1802 he received a bachelor's degree in theology and later in the same year the doctorate in theology.

He was vicar of Oakley Raynes and Goldington and Bedfordshire. In addition, he was also chaplain to the Marquis of Tweeddale.

He wrote, among other things, the Catalogus plantarum (May 1795), in which he listed 956 plants from the region around Bedfordshire, and a little later a book with the name Flora Bedfordiensis the same topic. This was released in November 1798. He is as the first attributed the discovery of the yellow throws leagues Dick head moth in England in 1798.

He also wrote other, more religiously oriented works, such as the band Parochial Divinity in 1807 and in 1805 a Monody on the Death of Horatio, Lord Nelson, with whom he also made his musical skills.

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