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Botanist pteridologist

Daniel Cady Eaton was an American botanist and author

Background

Eaton is the grandson of Amos Eaton.

Education

He gained his bachelor"s degree at Yale College, then went on to Harvard University where he studied with Asa Gray.

Career

He then went back to Yale in 1864, where he was a botany professor and herbarium curator. He also worked in Utah, contributing to the United States-Mexican Boundary Survey and various geological surveys. East. H. East. East. C.