| Authorised form of name | Lister; Arthur (1830 - 1908); botanist |
| Dates | 1830 - 1908 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Upton House, Upton, Essex, England |
| Date of birth | 17 April 1830 |
| Place of death | Highcliff, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England |
| Date of death | 19/07/1908 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Leytonstone, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Wine merchant and Botanist |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education: Hitchin
Career: Partner in firm of Lister and Beck, wine merchants, in the City of London (1846); retired from business (1888) and began his botanical investigations; published his works in Annals of Botany, the Journal of the Linnean Society, and the Proceedings of the Essex Field Club; 'A Monograph of the Mycetozoa', featuring 78 plates produced by his daughter, Gulielma Lister, issued by the Trustees of the British Museum (1894); compiled the British Museum's 'Guide to the British Mycetozoa (1895).
Memberships:
FLS (1873)
President of the Mycological Society (1906-7) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/06/1898 |
| Age at election | 68 |
| Proposer | W Carruthers; G Murray; William H Flower; C B Clarke; D Oliver; William Roberts; I B Balfour; M T Masters; J Murray; E R Lankester; Joseph D Hooker |
| Relationships | Parents: Joseph Jackson Lister (FRS 1832) and Isabella Lister
Siblings: Joseph Lister (FRS 1860); John Lister; Isaac Lister; Mary Lister; Isabella Sophia Lister; William Henry Lister; Samuel Henry Lister; Jane Lister
Spouse: Susanna Lister (1855), daughter of William Tindall of East Dulwich
Children: Gulielma Lister, botanical illustrator; Joseph Jackson Lister, zoologist (FRS 1900); Isabella Lister; Edith Mary Lister; Arthur Hugh Lister, II; Ellen F Lister; William Tindall Lister |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 50468
RCN 50469
RCN 50467 |
| OtherInfo | Known for his research on Mycetozoa, specifically taxonomy of Mycetozoa. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1914-1915 vol 88 pp i-xi, signed by J J L |
| Code | NA1657 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/16/596 | Copy letter of a notice from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [The Times] | 5 May 1898 |
| EC/1898/08 | Lister, Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/23/261 | Letter from [Joseph Jackson] Lister, Moorcroft, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society] | 9 November 1908 |
| MC/23/415 | Letter from [Dukinfield Henry] Scott, East Oakley House, Oakley, Hants, to the [Royal Society] | 3 November 1908 |