John Eatton the Tale

John Eatton the Tale (or John Eatton LeConte or John Eaton Leconte ) is a American Naturaliste , born the February 22nd 1784 with Shrewsbury in the New Jersey and dead the November 21st 1860.

He is the son of Jane Sloane and John Eatton the Tale. He is diploma with the Columbia College where he follows the courses of Natural history of David Hosack (1769-1835), founder of the Botanical garden of Elgin. The older brother of John, Louis, inherits the family plantation of Woodmanston, close to Midway (Georgia). Although John lives in New York or in New England, it spends its winters to Woodmanston. He suffers from Rhumatisme and probably from other affections almost all his life.

In April 1818, John becomes captain in the body of the engineers topographers of the American army. It is in particular confined in the area of Norfolk (Virginia), of Savannah (Georgia) and Ossabaw Sound, also in Georgia. The Tale obtains its patent of major in April 1820 and leaves the army in August 1831.

End 1821, the Tale proposes to the Minister for the war, John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), a forwarding in a lately acquired territory, the Florida. Later, whereas it is in station for the winter with Savannah, it again proposes the organization of a forwarding. He asks 970 dollars, premettant the addition of a Sloop and the wages of his crew for one month. The ministry for the war offers only 600 dollars to him. Beginning 1822, it goes to Fernandina to Florida with an ordering order of mission to the major-general Winfield Scott (1786-1866), ordering island of Amelia, to provide it eight men and an officer not patented for accompanies in his forwarding.

The forwarding of the Tale, which counts lieutenant Edwin R. Alberti, explores the river St John which had been previously explored by John Bartram (1699-1777) and his/her son William Bartram (1739-1823) in 1765 and 1766 and again by William Bartram of 1773 with 1777, but any preceding forwardings had not reached the source of the river. The Tale will also fail: it is mistaken while thinking on the Lac Okeechobee (which is indicated as the source of the river St John on many charts) does not exist and it makes errors in its statements of the Lac Georges.

Its older publication is a Latin catalog in plants of the island of Manhattan. Very early, it wishes to make appear a flora of the America, objective in party reaches when Stephen Elliott (1771-1830) made appear has Sketch off the Botany off South-Carolina and Georgia . It then publishes a series of publication, each one on different. It criticizes Elliott there although it is divided its observation on the kind Utricularia . After the death of Elliott, the Tale does not make any more appear but in an episodical way of the articles on the plants.

The first interests of the Tale rather involve it towards the Zoologie. He is joint author of the Histoire general and iconography of the lepidoptérès and the caterpillars of septentrional America with Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1799-1879) which appears with Paris. The illustrations of this work are hand of John Abbot (1751-1840 or 1841).

The Tale also writes on the Grenouille S, the Crapaud S, small the Mammifère S, the Reptile S and the Crustacé S. the drawings colors representing different the tortoise S from the North America will do it called Audubon of the tortoises. It names twenty-two S and S of tortoises of the south-east of the the United States of America.

The Tale is member of the Société linnéenne of London and is the vice-president of the Lyceum off Natural History of New York. After its installation with Philadelphia after 1841, the Tale is elected vice-president of the Academy off Natural Sciences off Philadelphia. It Marie with Mary Ann Hampton Lawyrence the July 22nd 1821 in New York. Their son, John Lawrence the Tale (1825-1883), will become the one of largest entomologists, pioneer of this discipline in the United States. Mary the Tale mor the November 19th 1825 at the time of a voyage from Georgia towards New York.

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Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of June 5th, 2006).

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