Английская Википедия:Anna Blackburne

Profile of Anna Blackburne

Anna Blackburne (baptised Anne Blackburne; 1726 – 30 December 1793) was an English naturalist who had an extensive collection of natural history specimens and corresponded with several notable naturalists of her era. Blackburne was born at Orford Hall, Orford, Warrington, Lancashire, into a family of landowners and merchants. After her mother's death, she lived at Orford with her father John Blackburne, who was known for his interest in botany and his hothouses for exotic plants. John Blackburne also had an extensive library where Anne likely studied botany; she later learned Latin to read the Шаблон:Lang of Carl Linnaeus. Blackburne collected insects, shells, minerals and birds. She regularly met with the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster while he was teaching at Warrington Academy. Forster instructed her in entomology and helped with her insect collection.

Blackburne corresponded with other naturalists including Linnaeus, to whom she sent a box of birds and insects. Her brother Ashton, who lived in New York, sent her specimens of North American birds. Thomas Pennant studied these birds in Blackburne's collection and included them in his book Arctic Zoology. Another source for Blackburne's collection was her exchange with Peter Simon Pallas in St. Petersburg, from whom she obtained mostly plants, birds, and minerals.

After her father's death, Blackburne and her museum moved to nearby Fairfield Hall. After her 1793 death, her nephew John Blackburne inherited the collection. Several species are named after Blackburne, including the beetle Geotrupes blackburnii, the Blackburnian warbler and the Blackburnia pinnata, now called Zanthoxylum pinnatum.

Family background and early life

Blackburne was born in 1726 at Orford Hall, Warrington, as the fifth of nine children of John Blackburne (1693–1786) and Katharine Ashton or Assheton (1701–1740).Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Efn Шаблон:Efn Her maternal grandfather was William Assheton, Rector of Prestwich.Шаблон:Sfn She was baptised as "Anne" on 3 January 1726, but was usually known as "Anna".Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Her family were landowners who had lived at Orford Hall since 1638.Шаблон:Sfn They also owned merchant ships, were involved in trade with Russia, and produced salt in Cheshire and at Salthouse Dock in Liverpool.Шаблон:Sfn John Blackburne was interested in botany and had a large collection of plants in his garden. In his coal-fired hothouses, he grew exotic plants including pineapples and cotton. Some of this cotton was noted to have been made into a muslin dress for his daughter.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Little is known about Anna's formal education,Шаблон:Sfn but she may have used the natural history books in her father's library to study botany during her childhood.Шаблон:Sfn In the years following her mother's death, Anna's surviving siblings left Orford Hall; eventually, only Anna and her father remained.Шаблон:Sfn Her brother John was a businessman who served as mayor of Liverpool in 1760–61 and was involved in the slave trade before 1758;Шаблон:Sfn her brother Ashton lived in New York,Шаблон:Sfn from where he sent bird specimens to his sister.Шаблон:Sfn Anna Blackburne eventually became the mistress of the manor and referred to herself as "Mrs. Blackburne" although she never married; the title "Mrs." was customarily used also by unmarried ladies of the 18th century.Шаблон:Sfn

Association with other naturalists

Blackburne was keenly interested in natural history. She was in contact with several well-known naturalists, and some of them visited her and her father at Orford Hall.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn She learned Latin and studied the Шаблон:Lang of Linnaeus.Шаблон:Sfn Occasionally, Blackburne visited London and Oxford;Шаблон:Sfn on one such visit to the botanical garden at Oxford, she debated with the gardeners and surprised the bystanders with the extent of her botanical knowledge.Шаблон:Sfn She collected various natural history specimens including insects, shells, minerals and birds.Шаблон:Sfn In the early years of her collection, she obtained most of her specimens from her widely travelled family members.Шаблон:Sfn

Johann Reinhold Forster

A middle aged man (Johann Reinhold Forster) wearing a hat looks at a young man (Georg Forster) drawing on sheet of paper

Portrait of Dr Johann Reinhold Forster and his son George Forster, by John Francis Rigaud, London Шаблон:Ca

One of the naturalists who visited the Blackburnes was Johann Reinhold Forster, who in 1767 had been appointed as tutor in modern languages and natural history at Warrington Academy as the replacement to Joseph Priestley.Шаблон:Sfn Forster's scientific lectures at Warrington covered biology, entomology and mineralogy.Шаблон:Sfn In 1768, Forster dined at Orford Hall every Saturday, helped Blackburne with the arrangement of her insect collection, and presented his lectures on entomology to her.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Blackburne allowed Forster to use the family's library,Шаблон:Sfn and encouraged him to publish his work.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn For his friend Thomas Pennant, another naturalist, Forster unsuccessfully tried to obtain duplicates of shells in her collection.Шаблон:Sfn Until he moved to London in 1770, Forster and Blackburne had a mutually beneficial relationship. While she received education, he benefitted from their social relationship and her library. Forster even expected Blackburne to order books for him.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn

The text "Tetrandria Monogynia" and "6. Blackburnia" above ten engravings of botanical details

Blackburnia (Zanthoxylum pinnatum), engraving of botanical drawings by Georg Forster, from Characteres generum plantarum

Forster later took part in the second voyage of James Cook as the expedition's naturalist.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn After his return, he and his son Georg published some of the botanical results of the voyage in the book Шаблон:Lang.Шаблон:Sfn Anna Blackburne received one of the small number of folio copies, which were given by the Forsters as presents to royalty as well as friends and supporters.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Efn Forster dedicated one genus to Blackburne and her father, Blackburnia, including Blackburnia pinnata, now called Zanthoxylum pinnatum.Шаблон:Sfn In the dedication, Forster mentioned John's garden and Anna's collections, thanking both for allowing him to use their "most informative museum".Шаблон:Sfn

Carl Linnaeus

On 29 June 1771, Blackburne wrote to the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus, offering to send him "a few Birds & insects" collected by her brother Ashton near New York.Шаблон:Sfn Linnaeus thanked her in his reply, written in Latin, and promised to name a new species after her if she gave him an unknown specimen.Шаблон:Sfn In response, Blackburne sent "a small box containing a few Birds and insects".Шаблон:Sfn These three letters are all that is known of their correspondence. The claims in her obituary that Blackburne was a "friend and constant correspondent of Linnaeus" or that he named a plant after her are inaccurate.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Linnaeus's student Johan Christian Fabricius visited Orford Hall, where he examined her collection of insects, and found a new species of beetle. He called it Scarabaeus blackburnii; it is now called Geotrupes blackburnii.Шаблон:Sfn

Thomas Pennant

A pinned black beetle specimen on white background

Geotrupes blackburnii, named after Blackburne by Johan Fabricius

The naturalist Thomas Pennant, who had been aware of Blackburne and her collections through correspondence with Forster since at least 1768, visited Orford Hall in May 1772.Шаблон:Sfn He later described the visit in his 1774 book, A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, where he praised John Blackburne's botanical collections and noted about Anna, "Mrs. Blackburne his daughter extends her researches still farther, and adds to her empire another kingdom; not content with the botanic, she causes North America to be explored for its animals, and has formed a museum from the other side of the Atlantic, as pleasing as it is instructive."Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn Pennant studied the collection of birds that Blackburne's brother Ashton had sent to her from America, which resulted in him including more than a hundred species of birds from New York alone in his book Arctic Zoology.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn The book's preface contained extensive thanks to the Blackburnes for their contribution:Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Cquote Pennant named the Blackburnian warbler in honour of Anna Blackburne.Шаблон:Sfn In 1975, V. P. Wystrach determined that sixteen or seventeen of the bird species accepted by the American Ornithologists' Union were originally described by Pennant from skins sent to Blackburne by her brother Ashton.Шаблон:Sfn Other than birds, Pennant acknowledged the Blackburne museum as the source for the descriptions of a mammal, a salamander, 3 species of fish, and 52 insects, also within Arctic Zoology.Шаблон:Sfn Pennant did not, however, acknowledge Blackburne's contributions in his autobiography.Шаблон:Sfn

Bird with orange throat, black spot near the eye, feathers in shades of grey, sitting on a branch

Blackburnian warbler

Other naturalists

The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas corresponded with Pennant during his career. He lived in St. Petersburg and had collected natural history specimens during an expedition to Siberia.Шаблон:Sfn Pennant likely introduced Pallas to Blackburne, and the two started exchanging specimens in 1778.Шаблон:Sfn They exchanged mostly plants, preserved birds, and minerals, but also other animals, including a young musk deer that Blackburne obtained from Pallas in 1779.Шаблон:Sfn Some of the exchanges were mediated by the publisher Benjamin White.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn At some point between 1771 and 1779, Blackburne also became acquainted with the naturalist Joseph Banks, who also served as an intermediary between her and Pallas, and with botanist Daniel Solander as well.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn The naturalist Emanuel Mendes da Costa was also in contact with Blackburne and offered to catalogue her collection of minerals. Possibly because of his previous misappropriation of Royal Society funds, Blackburne did not employ him although she did express interest.Шаблон:Sfn

Museum, death, and legacy

Painting of a bird in a raspberry plant, with wood lice visible on the plant and a pupa on the ground

Eurasian wren, raspberry, wood lice and pupa from the Natural History Cabinet of Anna Blackburne, by James Bolton

Anna Blackburne had an extensive collection of natural history specimens.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn She had a herbarium, a collection of 470 birds and one bat preserved by taxidermy, specimens of insects, corals and shells, as well as fossils, ores, and minerals.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn She likely also commissioned drawings of her specimens, and around 1768 the illustrator James Bolton made several watercolours and gouaches from objects in her collection.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn After her father's death, Blackburne moved in 1787 from Orford Hall to nearby Fairfield Hall, which was built for her with a room designed to house her collections.Шаблон:Sfn The room was Шаблон:Convert long, as wide as the entire front of the house.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn She also had plans for a botanical garden, but was unable to carry these plans out due to health issues.Шаблон:Sfn She died on 30 December 1793, and was buried in the churchyard of St Oswald's Church, Winwick.Шаблон:Sfn Her collection was inherited by her nephew John Blackburne, who moved selected parts of the collection to his seat at Hale Hall.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn In her will, she bequeathed a total of more than Шаблон:Inflation to her family and to charity.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Inflation/fn

A crater on Venus has been named "Blackburne" in her honour since 1994.Шаблон:Sfn The Blackburne crater is situated at 11.0°N, 183.9°E and has a diameter of 30.1 km.Шаблон:Sfn

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