Richard Pulteney

**Richard Pulteney** ( 17 de febreru 1730 - 13 d'ochobre 1801) foi un médicu, farmacéuticu, zoólogu, y botánicu británicu. Yera fíu del inconformista Samuel Pulteney. Foi a la Escuela de Gramática en Loughborough; y depués foi como aprendiz de farmacéuticu. Mientres la so formación treslladóse col so maestru a Mountsorrel. Depués exerció como ciruxanu y boticariu en Leicester.

Estudió medicina n'Edimburgu, llogrando la so doctoráu en 1764 con una tesis titulada *Dissertatio ... de Cinchona officinali Linnaei sive cortice Peruviano, etc.* Exerció la medicina en Leicester, Londres, y depués a Blandford, Dorset.. 

Robló la primer biografía del xenial Carlos Linneo (1707-1778), *A General View of the writings of Linnæus.* (Londres, 1781, reeditada en 1802). Traducíu al francés por Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison (1759-1818) en 1789 sol títulu *Revue générale des écrits de Linné. Ouvrage dans lequel on trouve les anecdotes les plus intéressantes de sa vie privée, un abrégé de ses systèmes et de ses ouvrages, un extrait de ses aménités académiques* (editáu por Buisson, París). Pulteney tamién publicó *Historical and biographical Sketches of the progress of Botany in England, from its origin to the introduction of the Linnæan System* (deux volúmenes, Londres, 1790), *Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the more rare Plants of Dorsetshire, from the new ... edition of Mr. Hutchins’s history of that county* (Londres, 1799).

A la edá de 71 años, morrió en 1801 de neumonía. 

## Honores
* Miembru de la Royal Society, electu'l 25 de payares 1762
* Cofundador de la Sociedá Linneana de Londres, onde mandó la so biblioteca y les sos coleiciones de especímenes. El so yerbariu alcuéntrase agora nel Muséu Británicu.

#### [[Epónimu|Epónimos]]
;Xéneru:
* (Leguminosae) *[[Pultenaea]]* Sm.

## Delles publicaciones
### En ''Philosophical Transactions''
* *An Acount of some of the more rare English Plants observed in Leicestershire*. In: *Philosophical Transactions*. Tomu 49, páxs. 803-866, 1757 gallica.bnf.fr
* *A catalogue of some of the more rare plants found in the neighbourhood of Leicester, Loughborough and in Charley Forest*. En: *Philosophical Transactions*. Tomu 49, páxs. 866, 1757
* *In The Case of a Man, Whose Heart Was Found Enlarged to a Very Uncommon Size*. In: *Philosophical Transactions*. Vol. 52, 1761/1762 
* *A Letter from Richard Pulteney, M.D. F.R.S. to William Watson, M.D. F.R.S. concerning the Melecinal Effects of a Poisonous Plant Exhibited Instead of the Water Parsnep*. En: *Philosophical Transactions*. Vol. 62, 1772
* *An Account of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, during Forty Years, in the Parish of Blandford Forum, Dorset*. En: *Philosophical Transactions*. Vol. 68, 1778

#### Primeres ediciones
* *Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de Cinchona officinali Linnaei; sive cortice peruviano...* Edinburg, 1764
* *A general view of the writings of Linnaeus*. Londres, 1781
* *Historical and biographical sketches of the progress of botany in England: from its origin to the introduction of the Linnaean system*. Londres, 1790 - 3 vols.
* *The history and description of a minute epiphyllous lycoperdon growing on the leaves of the Anemone nemorosa*. Londres, 1794
* *Catalogues of the Birds, Shells, and some of the more rare Plants of Dorsetshire*. Londres, 1799
* *Observations on the economiocal use of the Ranunculus aquatilis with introductory remarks on the acrimonious and poisonous quality of some of the English species of that genus*. Londres, 1800

#### Ediciones n'alemán
* *D.Richard Pulteney's Geschichte der Botanik bis auf die neueren Zeiten, mit besondrer Rücksicht auf England. Für Kenner und Dilettanten*. Leipzig, 1798 - Traductor: Karl Gottlob Kühn

## Fuentes
* John Aikin. *Xeneral Biography: or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the most Eminent Persons of all Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions, Arranged According to Alphabetical Order*. Londres, 1799-1815. 10 vols.
* Alexander Chalmers: *The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time*. Londres, 1812-1817. 32 vols.
* William Georg Maton: *Memoirs of Doctor Pulteney*. In: *A general view of the writings of Linnaeus*. 2ª ed. Londres, 1805

## Referencies

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* Robert H. Jeffers: *Richard Pulteney, M.D., F.R.S. (1730–1801) and his correspondents*. Londres, 1960.
* H.A. Waldron: *Richard Pulteney (1730–1801): Linnean botanist and cardiologist*. En: *Trans. & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia*. Vol. 2, tema 1, páxs. 31-40, 1980

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