Dawson Turner (1775 - 1858)
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Biography
Selected publications
Biography
In addition to mosses and fungi, Turner was interested in architecture, publishing guides to the interesting architecture in Rome and Normandy. He also collected historical objects, papers, and accounts of his local area of England, and his material is cited in several local histories (the British love to write histories) of Suffolk and Norfolk counties.
Selected Publications
Dawson Turner (1804) Muscologiæ hibernicæ spicilegium (Guide to the mosses of Ireland)
Dawson Turner (1808 - 1819) Fuci, sive Plantarum fucorum generi a botanicis ascriptarum icones descriptiones et historia (Fuci, being a history, with pictures and descriptions, of the plants that botany has assigned to the genus Fucus) 4 vol.Seaweeds
Dawson Turner & William Borrer (1839) Specimen of a lichenographia Britannica: or attempt at a history of the British lichens
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