Edward Hobson (botanist)

Edward Hobson (1782–1830) was an English weaver and botanist who is associated with the Manchester School of Botany, as represented by such people at John Horsefield and Richard Buxton. His specialism was the study of bryology and one result of this was the publication of his two-volume collection of dried, pressed specimens, A Collection of Specimens of British Mosses and Hepaticae, between 1818 and 1822. This study served as a companion to the 1818 book, Muscologia Britannica: Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland that was produced by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Taylor, from whom Buxton received encouragement.[1]

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Citations

1. ODNB.
2. IPNI.  Hobson.

Bibliography

• "Hobson, Edward (1782–1830), botanist and weaver". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13407. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Further reading

• Cash, James (2011) [1873]. Where There's a Will, There's a Way!: Or, Science in the Cottage; An Account of the Labours of Naturalists in Humble Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-03790-7. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
• Grindon, Leo Hartley (1882). Country rambles, and Manchester walks and wild flowers: being rural wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, & Yorkshire. Manchester: Palmer and Howe.
• Hogg, James (1849). "Richard Buxton". Hogg's Instructor. New Series. Edinburgh: James Hogg. III.
• Moore, John (1842). "Memoir of Mr. Edward Hobson". Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society: 297–324.
• Secord, Anne (1994). "Science in the pub: artisan botanists in early nineteenth-century Lancashire". History of Science. 32 (97): 269–315. Bibcode:1994HisSc..32..269S. doi:10.1177/007327539403200302. ISSN 0073-2753. PMID 11639322. S2CID 30116535.
• Secord, Anne (1996) [1995]. "Artisan Botany". In Jardine, Nicholas; Secord, James A.; Spary, Emma C. (eds.). Cultures of Natural History (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 378–393. ISBN 978-0-521-55894-5.