Mary Ann Burnett

British botanist

Mary Ann Burnett
Illustration of a pineapple by Mary Ann Burnett
Died	18 December 1856 London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Botanist, author and editor

Mary Ann Burnett (died 18 December 1856) was a British botanist, author and editor.

Life and work

Burnett was the illustrator and editor of Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine (1839–40).^[1] Some of the text was written by her brother Gilbert Thomas Burnett.^[2] Subsequent editions from 1840 onwards name Mary Ann as the author.^[3]^[4] Burnett dedicated the 1842 edition of the book to her patron, Miss Minshull.^[5]

Burnett died at Fitzroy Square, London, in December 1856 "after a long and painful illness".^[6]^[7]

Burnett gallery

A lily (Lilium species)
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
Cardamom plant (Elettaria cardamomum)
Chinese or Turkish rhubarb (Rheum palmatum)
Cinchona plant (Cinchona officinalis)
Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum)
Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum)
Fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria)
Liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Melon (Cucumis melo)
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
Peepul tree (Ficus religiosa)
Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Quince (Cydonia oblonga)
Flag iris (Iris x germanica)
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
White hellebore (Veratrum album)

Selected publications

Burnett, M. A. (1842). Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine^[8] (Vol. 1). Whittaker & Company.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mary Ann Burnett.

Works by or about Mary Ann Burnett at the Internet Archive

References

^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/4073. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4073. Retrieved 23 May 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Births Marriages Deaths". The Spectator Archive. The Spectator. 27 December 1856. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^ Burnett, M. A. (1840). Plantae utiliores ; or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine. Vol. Part 1. London: Whittaker. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ Burnett, M. A. (1850). Plantae utiliores ; or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine. Vol. IV. London: Whittaker. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ Burnett, M. A.; Burnett, Gilbert T. (1842). Plantæ utiliores : or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, Vol. I. London: Whittaker & Co. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "Deaths". The Times. 24 December 1856.
^ "Obituary". Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer: 251. 1857. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ Burnett, M. A. (1842). Plantæ Utiliores: Or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Employed in the Arts and Medicine. Whittaker & Company.