Английская Википедия:Catharine Johnston

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Файл:Illustration of Hieracium murorum & Hieracium sylvaticum by Catharine Johnston.jpg
Botanical illustration of Hieracium murorum and Hieracium sylvaticum in Plate II by Catharine Johnston published in The Botany of the Eastern Borders.[1]

Catharine Johnston (Шаблон:Née Charles; 1794–1871) was an English botanical illustrator who had a species of marine animal named in her honour.

Life and work

Catharine Charles was born in 1794[2] and was the daughter of William Claudius Charles, a surgeon who had worked in the West Indies.[3] On 23 November 1819, she married George Johnston,[4] a naturalist, and moved to Berwick-on-Tweed, where the couple resided permanently.[5]

Johnston took an active interest in the study of natural history.[5] She assisted her husband in his natural history investigations and illustrated his publications with scientific drawings.[5] She signed her works C. Johnston.[6] On 21 December 1831, she was made an "Extraordinary member" of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.[7] Her drawings assisted other notable scientists to further their research.[8]

Файл:Illustration of Tomopteris (Johnstonella) catharina by P H Gosse.jpg
Johnstonella catharina from A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast by P. H. Gosse, 1853.[8]

In 1853 Philip Henry Gosse named the marine species Tomopteris (Johnstonella) catharina in her honor stating:

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