Galloway D.J.
(1988):
Erik Acharius and his influence on English lichenology,
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany Series ,
18(2): 149-194
The system of lichen taxonomy devised by the Swedish botanist Erik Acharius in his Methodus qua omnes
detectos lichenes (1803) was introduced into English lichenology by Dawson Turner and James Edward
Smith. At the instigation of Olof Swartz in Stockholm, both Smith and Turner corresponded with Acharius
and sent him lichens from Britain, and from British explorations in the Pacific and North America. The
influence of Acharius and Swartz on the development of lichenology in England in the early …
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