Daniel Cady Eaton
Daniel Cady Eaton was an American botanist and author. After studies at the Rensselaer Institute in Troy and Russell's military school in New Haven, he gained his bachelor's degree at Yale College, then went on to Harvard University, where he studied with Asa Gray. He then went to Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School in 1864, where he was a botany professor and herbarium curator. With William Gilson Farlow and Charles Lewis Anderson he issued the exsiccata series Algae exsiccatae Americae Borealis. Eaton is the grandson of Amos Eaton.
He also worked in Utah, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary Survey, and various geological surveys.
Family
Eaton's interest in botany was inherited; he was the son of botanical collector General Amos Beebe Eaton and the grandson of botanist, geologist, and educator Amos Eaton. Confusingly, a first cousin also named Daniel Cady Eaton was also a professor at Yale, in art history.Eaton married Caroline Ketcham ; they had three children, Elizabeth Selden Eaton, Harry K. Eaton, and Yale archaeologist and paleontologist George Francis Eaton.
Notable publications
- . New York: Nims & Knight, Troy. 1887. 96 pp, 10 plates.
- Enumeration of the Ferns of Cuba and Venezuela. 1860.
- . Volumes 1–2. 81 color plates by James H. Emerton and C. E. Faxon. Salem, Massachusetts: S. E. Cassino. 1877–1880. Folio.
- Systematic Fern List . 1880.
- Asplenium bradleyi
- Dryopteris clintoniana
- ''Pellaea mucronata''