John Whitehead (1833-1896)

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Mr John Whitehead (1833-6/5/1896)

Contents 1 Biography 2 information included from the herbariaunited database 2.1 Inferred associations 2.1.1 associated with 2.2 Collection activity by county 3 references and external links

Biography

Cotton operative. Bryologist. Discovered Chara braunii. First President Manchester Cryptogamic Soc. Oldham Microscopical Club and Field Society. Eventually incapacitated with rheumatism in his knee.

Born Dukinfleld, Cheshire, 1833.
Died Oldham, 6 May, 1896.
Mosses in ' Flora of Ashton-under-Lyne,' 1888. Mosses in Naturalist, 1886, 85.
Journ. Bot. 1894, 193. Wilson Corr. Cott. Gard, xxviii. 585.
Obituary : Journal of Botany. 1897, 35, p. 89 (portrait - see below) - written by Britten.

Herb. at Manchester Univ. Amblyslegium filicinum var. Whiteheadii Wheldon.

information included from the herbariaunited database

Inferred associations

associated with

• William Hunt Painter
• Henry (Harry) Searle
• James Henry Augustus Steuart

Collection activity by county

Search for specimens collected by John Whitehead.

references and external links

http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/pubs/pdf/mrhr_05i_percy.pdf