James Yate Johnson
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James Yate Johnson was an English
naturalist
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Johnson, who lived in Madeira
from around 1851 studied marine fish
, crustacea, sea anemones and sponges and terrestrial spiders, flowering plants and mosses. He collected specimens for other naturalists.For instance George Busk
who in 1859 wrote Zoophytology: On some Madeiran Polyzoa. Collected by J. Yates Johnson, Esq. in the ‘’Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science’’, vol. 7, pp. 65–67.
England
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naturalist
Naturalist
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Johnson, who lived in Madeira
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...
from around 1851 studied marine fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
, crustacea, sea anemones and sponges and terrestrial spiders, flowering plants and mosses. He collected specimens for other naturalists.For instance George Busk
George Busk
George Busk RN FRS was a British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Busk was born in St Petersburg, the son of the merchant Robert Busk and grandson of Sir Wadsworth Busk...
who in 1859 wrote Zoophytology: On some Madeiran Polyzoa. Collected by J. Yates Johnson, Esq. in the ‘’Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science’’, vol. 7, pp. 65–67.
Works
Partial list- 1863 Descriptions of five new species of fishes obtained at Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of LondonJournal of ZoologyThe Journal of Zoology is a scientific journal concerning zoology, the study of animals. It was founded in 1830 by the Zoological Society of London and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. It carries original research papers, which are targeted towards general readers...
1863 (33): 36-46, pl. VII - 1866. Description of Trachichthys darwini, a new species of berycoid fish from Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. : 311-315.
- 1867. Description of a new genus and new species of Macrurous Decapod Crustaceans..., discovered at Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, pp. 895–901.
- 1899. Notes on some Sponges belonging to the Clionidae obtained at Madeira. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899:461-463, pl.
- 1867. Description of a new genus and new species of Macrurous Decapod Crustaceans, discovered at Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, pp. 895–901.