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Daniel Cady Eaton
1834–1895
A leading American botanist of the 19th century, he helped build the study of ferns in the United States and spent much of his career teaching at Yale. His work blended field research, scholarship, and careful classification at a time when American botany was rapidly expanding.
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Beautiful Ferns
by Daniel Cady Eaton
About the author
Born in 1834, Daniel Cady Eaton was an American botanist who studied at Yale and then at Harvard under the influential botanist Asa Gray. He went on to return to Yale, where he became a professor of botany and curator of the herbarium, helping shape botanical study there for decades.
He is especially remembered for his work on ferns, a field in which he became one of the country's best-known specialists. He also contributed to major surveys in the American West and wrote important botanical works, including Ferns of North America.
Eaton died in 1895, but his reputation endured through his teaching, his published research, and his role in developing American botany as a professional discipline.