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- Title
THE PALEOBOTANICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHARLES JAMES FOX BUNBURY (1809-1886).
- Authors
CLEAL, CHRISTOPHER J.
- Abstract
During the 1850s, Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet Bunbury, was Britain's leading paleobotanist, who published a series of papers on fossil floras of Carboniferous, Jurassic and Neogene age. He also planned a major synoptic review of paleobotany, to rival Brongniart's Histoire de végétaux fossiles. He was financially comfortably-off, and wellconnected with the scientific community in the London of his day. However, he failed to fulfil his ambitions in this field due to a combination of a lack of experience, and that on the death of his father he had to take over the running of the family estate. Today he is mainly remembered as the author of a number of names of still widely used fossil-taxa. Nevertheless, he fulfilled an important role in maintaining paleobotanical interest in Britain during the middle part of the nineteenth century.
- Subjects
BUNBURY, Charles; PALEOBOTANISTS; CARBONIFEROUS paleobotany; JURASSIC paleobotany; NEOGENE paleobotany
- Publication
Earth Sciences History, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0736-623X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17704/1944-6178-37.1.88