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 o ...
. 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
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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
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 ...
. 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'' which is a slime mould
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
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
genus
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, as well as the
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
''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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1830 births
1908 deaths
19th-century British botanists
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Fellows of the Royal Society