Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) was an Irish botanist. Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family had a small estate on the shores of Bantry Bay, County Cork. Her father was a magistrate and died when she was two, leaving a wife and six children. She went to Dublin and was looked after by Dr. Whitley Stokes, a medical doctor and naturalist. She got to know a Scot James Townsend MacKay (1775-1862) who was curator of the Botanic Garden of Trinity College, and his influence helped her in the classification of plants she was collecting. She contributed to his Flora Hibernica. She was an avid collector of cryptogamic species and in their pictoral representation. She collected around her homeplace and in Belfast and the West of Ireland. She had a major influence in the collection and line drawing of seaweeds and in 1807 these were sent to Dawson Turner's Fuci. She also contributed in 1804 to his Muscologiae Hibernicae Specilegium, the first work on Irish mosses. She contributed to Lewis Dillwyn's work British Confervae. Her rare finds included lichens, and three species are called after her: Bantry Bay is a bay located in southwest Ireland, in County Cork. ... Statistics Province: Munster County Town: Cork Code: C (CK proposed) Area: 7,457 km² Population (2002) 447,829 Website: www. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Scot A Scot is a person from Scotland. ... Trinity College, Dublin, corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Dawson Turner (18 October 1775-21 June 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. ...

• Lecania hutchinsiae
• Pertusaria hutchinsiae
• Enterographa hutchinsiae.

On her death her collection passed to Dawson Turner and are now in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with some in Sheffield City Museum. Dawson Turner (18 October 1775-21 June 1858) was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. ... The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond upon Thames and Kew in southwest London. ... Kew is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Ardnagashel House (Historic Cork Gardens)
• List of Cork people
• List of Irish people

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External links

• Irish Scientist Article
• Sheffield City Museum
• University of California, Letters of Ellen Hutchins and Dawson Turner 1807-1814
• Kew archive
• Kew archive
• Irish Universities Promoting Science

References

• Patricia Butler,Irish Botanical Illustrators, Antique Collectors Club, London 2000 ISBN 1-85149-357-3
• Dawson Turner, Fucci Vol.IV, London 1807-1819,
• Robert Braithwaithe The British Moss-Flora, London 1887-1905