Thomas Potts James

Thomas Potts James (1803–1882) was an American botanist and bryologist.[1] He made important contributions to the study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts).[2] He wrote the section on mosses and liverworts in William Darlington's Flora Cestrica (1853).[2]

Family

James married Isabella Batchelder in 3 December 1851.[3] Isabella went on to become the president of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Commission.[3]

gollark: Sure, I guess.
gollark: No, but it's nice to be able to refer to "Protagonism Street" and have there be no ambiguity.
gollark: ./warp choruscity
gollark: Which we probably do have right now, actually. There are something like... three cities. Cherryville is tiny, Chorus City uses weird names picked by me, and Switch City, well, has roads.
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References
  1. Humphrey, Harry Baker (1961). Makers of North American Botany. New York: Ronald Press Company. pp. 125–127.
  2. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella James (1903). "Thomas Potts James". The Bryologist. 6 (5): 71–74. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(1903)6[71:TPJ]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 3238779.
  3. Chandler, Charles Henry (1914). "The history of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 1735-1914 : with genealogical records of the principal families". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  4. IPNI.  James.



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