Arthur Hugh Lister (1830–1908) was a wine merchant and botanist, known for his research on

slime molds Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mu ...

Life

Lister was born in Upton House, Upton, Essex. He was the youngest son of

Joseph Jackson Lister Joseph Jackson Lister FRS FRMS (11 January 1786 – 24 October 1869) was an amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of The 1st Baron Lister. Ancestry In 1705, Thomas Lister, a farmer and maltster, of Bingley, Yorkshire, Englan ...

, a brother of the celebrated

Joseph Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine. Joseph Lister revolutionised the craft of s ...

, and father of the mycologist and botanical illustrator

Gulielma Lister Gulielma Lister (28 October 1860 – 18 May 1949) was a British botanist and mycologist, and was considered an international authority on Mycetozoa. Life Lister was born in Sycamore House, 881 High Road, Leytonstone on 28 October 1860, one of ...

. He was educated at Hitchin and left school at sixteen to go into business. He became a partner in a company of wine merchants and retired from business in 1888. He was elected a fellow of the

Linnean Society The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

in 1873 and was the Society's vice-president in 1895–1896. He was president of the Mycological Society in 1906–1907. He married in 1855 and was the father of four daughters and three sons, one of whom was the zoologist

. Much of Arthur Lister's scientific work was done in collaboration with his daughter Gulielma. He was honoured in 1901, when botanists Penzig & P.A.Saccardo published ''Listeromyces'', Then in 1906, Eduard Adolf Wilhelm Jahn published ''

Listerella paradoxa ''Listerella paradoxa'' is a slime mould species from the class Myxogastria and the only member of its genus as well as the family Listerelliidae. The species is so far only found on the wattle genus ''Cladonia'', mostly in European temperate zo ...

'' which is a slime mould

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from the

class Class or The Class may refer to: Common uses not otherwise categorized * Class (biology), a taxonomic rank * Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects * Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used differentl ...

Myxogastria Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, ICZN) or Myxomycetes (International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, ICN), is a Class (biology), class of slime molds that contains 5 o ...

and the only member of its

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, as well as the

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''Listerelliidae''.Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: ''Mycetozoa'' In: ''An illustrated guide to the protozoa : organisms traditionally referred to as protozoa, or newly discovered groups'', Society of Protozoologists, p. 962, 2000

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lister, Arthur Hugh 1830 births 1908 deaths 19th-century British botanists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society