Daniel Cady Eaton

Daniel Cady Eaton, 1864.

Daniel Cady Eaton (1834–1895) was an American botanist and author. He gained his bachelor's degree at Yale University, then went on to Harvard University where he studied with Asa Gray. He then went back to Yale where he was a botany professor and herbarium curator.

He also worked in Utah, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary Survey and various geological surveys.

Partial list of publications by D. C. Eaton:

• Beautiful Ferns; from Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature. Paintings by C. E. Faxon and J. H. Emerton. Nims & Knight, Troy, New York. 1887 (c. 1885). 96 pp, 10 plates.
• 'Enumeration of the Ferns of Cuba and Venezuela. 1860.
• The Ferns of North America, Volumes 1-2. 81 color plates by J. H. Emerton and C E. Faxon. Boston, Massachusetts. 1879-1880. Folio.
• Systematic Fern List [Eastern North America]. 1880.

Partial list of species named by D. C. Eaton:

• Asplenium bradleyi
• Dryopteris clintoniana (as Aspidium cristatum var. clintonianum)
• Pellaea mucronata
• Woodsia scopulina

The standard author abbreviation D.C. Eaton is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Eaton, Daniel Cady
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Date of birth	1834
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Date of death	1895
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