Edward Hobson (botanist) explained

Edward Hobson (1782–1830) was an English weaver and botanist who is associated with the Manchester School of Botany, as represented by such people at John Horsefield and Richard Buxton. His specialism was the study of bryology and one result of this was the publication of his two-volume collection of dried, pressed specimens, A Collection of Specimens of British Mosses and Hepaticae, between 1818 and 1822. This study served as a companion to the 1818 book, Muscologia Britannica: Containing the Mosses of Great Britain and Ireland that was produced by William Jackson Hooker and Thomas Taylor, from whom Buxton received encouragement.^[1]

----He edited and distributed the exsiccata-like series [Musci Britannici] A collection of specimens of British mosses and Hepaticae, collected in the vicinity of Manchester, and systematically arranged with reference to the Muscologia Britanica, English Botany, &c, &c, &c, by Edward Hobson (1818-1822).^[2]

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• Book: Cash, James . Where There's a Will, There's a Way!: Or, Science in the Cottage; An Account of the Labours of Naturalists in Humble Life . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 2011 . 1873 . 978-1-108-03790-7 . 2012-01-15.
• Book: Grindon, Leo Hartley . Leopold Hartley Grindon

. Country rambles, and Manchester walks and wild flowers: being rural wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, & Yorkshire . Leopold Hartley Grindon . Manchester . Palmer and Howe . 1882 .

• Hogg's Instructor . III . New Series. James . Hogg . 1849 . Richard Buxton . Edinburgh . James Hogg.
• Memoir of Mr. Edward Hobson . John . Moore . Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society . Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society . 1842 . 297–324 .
• Anne . Secord . Science in the pub: artisan botanists in early nineteenth-century Lancashire . History of Science . 32 . 97 . 1994 . 269–315 . 0073-2753. 10.1177/007327539403200302 . 11639322 . 1994HisSc..32..269S . 30116535 .
• Book: Secord, Anne . Cultures of Natural History. James A. Secord . Nicholas . Jardine . James A. . Secord . Emma C. . Spary . Artisan Botany . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1996 . 1995 . Reprinted . 978-0-521-55894-5 . 378–393.

Notes and References

1. ODNB.
2. Web site: A collection of specimens of British mosses and Hepaticae, collected in the vicinity of Manchester, and systematically arranged with reference to the Muscologia Britanica, English Botany, &c, &c, &c, by Edward Hobson: IndExs ExsiccataID=304135040 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 7 August 2024.