11 Facts About Thomas Nuttall

Thomas Nuttall was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841.

Thomas Nuttall was accompanied by the English botanist John Bradbury, who was collecting plants on behalf of Liverpool botanical gardens.

In 1817, Thomas Nuttall was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Thomas Nuttall was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1823.

Thomas Nuttall published his Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada.

Thomas Nuttall returned in the spring of 1835 and spent the next year botanizing in the Pacific Northwest, an area already covered by David Douglas.

From 1836 until 1841, Thomas Nuttall worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

From 1842 until his death in 1859 Thomas Nuttall lived at Nutgrove Hall in St Helens, Lancashire, built by printer Jonas Thomas Nuttall in 1810.

Thomas Nuttall is buried at Christ Church in the nearby village of Eccleston.

Various plants and birds were named after Thomas Nuttall, including Thomas Nuttall's woodpecker Dryobates nuttallii by his friend William Gambel, and yellow-billed magpie Pica nuttalli and common poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii by John James Audubon.

Thomas Nuttall is commemorated in the Pacific dogwood Cornus nuttallii, Nuttall's larkspur Delphinium nuttallianum, Nuttall's oak Quercus texana, the catclaw briar Mimosa nuttallii, Nuttall's violet Viola nuttallii, Nuttall's saltbush Atriplex nuttallii, Nuttall's rayless goldenrod Bigelowia nuttallii, and other plants.