Samuel Hart Wright
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by Samuel Hart Wright in 1879Samuel Hart Wright (c. 1825–1905) was a farmer, astronomer, botanist, teacher, and almanac editor.[1][2][3] He accumulated and maintained a large collection of plants. He catalogued Hartwrightia and it is named for him. He served as an editor of the Farmers' Almanac.
Wright was from
Dundee Academy.[2]
He helped produce The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States in 1867.[4]
He corresponded with John Torrey in 1870.[5]
Wright published a regular column including a mathematics problem.[6]
Charles Willison Johnson wrote about him in 1906 in The Nautilus.[8]
The standard author abbreviation S.H. Wright is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781625845450– via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Biography of Samuel Hart Wright, M.D., A. M." www.crookedlakereview.com.
- ^ "Wright, Samuel Hart (1825-1905) on JSTOR". Global Plants. JSTOR.
- ^ "Samuel Hart Wright | the Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 1867".
- ^ Wright, Samuel Hart (November 5, 1870). "Samuel Hart Wright and John Torrey correspondence, 1870". Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ http://bullock1.com/MathDeptYatesCountyChron.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "What's In A Name Or Two?". www.jaxshells.org.
- ^ Johnson, Charles Willison (November 5, 1906). "Samuel Hart Wright". The Nautilus. 19: 105–106.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. S.H. Wright.
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