| Name | Catesby, Mark |
| Date of birth | 1682 |
| Date of death | 1749 |
| Remarks | "b. Castle Hedingham?, Essex, 24 Mar 1682; d. London, 23 Dec 1749. British (English) naturalist and artist. FRS 1733. Travelled and collected plants in Virginia 1712-1719, Jamaica 1715. Sponsored by Sherard and others to collect in Carolina, Florida and Bahamas 1722-1726. Returned to England 1726 to live at Hoxton, London, where he worked for the nursery of Thomas Fairchild. Best-known for his exquisitely executed watercolours for his Natural history of Carolina, Florida and Bahama Islands, the originals of which were purchased by King George III in 1768, and are still in the Royal Library at Windsor. These were originally intended as a kind of catalogue, to show his sponsors what the plants looked like in their natural environment ... Manuscripts & letters at the Royal Society. Drawings at BM" (vide B. Bates) [author note: Herbarium and types: main collections at BM in Sloane herbarium; OXF in Sherard herbarium; E, in Dubois herbarium] [collector note: United States (col. 1712-1719, 1725-1726), Bahamas (col. 1725-1726): BM, E, OXF] |
| ASA Botanist ID | 100623 botanist |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/b955795b-a04f-4ac2-be81-94fbfb30c1b1 |
| Variant name | Mark Catesby |
| Author name | Catesby |
| B & P Author Abbrev. | Catesby |
| Standard/Label Name | M. Catesby |
| Full Name | Catesby, Mark |
| Geography Author | United States of America |
| Geography Collector | Bahamas, United States of America |
| Specialty Author | Pre-Linnean |
| Specialty Collector | Phanerogams |
| Citation as Author | Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Citation as Author | Taxonomic Literature. Second Edition. Utrecht |
| Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum - Collectors A-D |
| Citation as Collector | J. E. Smith, Selections of correspondence of Linnaeus 2: 440-441. 1821 |
| Citation as Collector | R. M. M. Hunt, Catalogue of botanical books: 138-147. 1961 |
| Citation as Collector | B. Henrey, British botanical & horticultural literature before 1800, 2: 275-277. 1975 |
| Citation as Collector | F. A. Stafleu & R. S. Cowan, TL2, 1: 469-471. 1976 |
| Citation as Collector | M. Hadfield, British gardeners: 61-62. 1980 |
| Citation as Collector | R. Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish botanists & horticulturists, ed. 2: 137-138. 1994 |
| Citation as Collector | M. Leapman, The ingenious Mr. Fairchild: 139-145. 2000 |
| Citation as Collector | pers. comm. from B. Bates |
| Author in | Hort. Brit.-Amer. |
| Author in | Hort. Eur. Amer. |
| Author in | Nat. Hist. Carolina |
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