John Henry Salter

English naturalist and diarist (1862–1942)

professor of botany
ornithologist
writer

John Henry Salter (1862 – 5 August 1942) was an English naturalist and ornithologist. He was a professor of botany at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Additionally, he published a book about the birds of Wales.^[2]

Biography

John H. Salter was born in Westleton, near what is nowadays the RSPB Minsmere nature reserve, Suffolk.

Salter was a lecturer in botany at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1894 to 1899. He then became professor of botany within the same department, going on to hold the chair until 1903.^[3]

Salter never owned a car and walked 20 miles a day. He was a non-smoker, teetotaller and vegetarian.^[1] He was a Quaker.^[1]

He died from a fall in his garden on 5 August 1942.^[1]

Bibliography

Among Salter's publications are:

Salter, John Henry (c. 1890). List of the flowering plants and ferns of Aberystwyth and neighbourhood. Aberystwyth: University College of Wales Scientific Society. OCLC 48115041 (all editions).^[4]
—— (1899). Ornithological Notes from Northern Norway . The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 3, issue 692 (February), pp. 54–71 – via Wikisource.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chater, A.O. "Salter, John Henry (1862–1942)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40789. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Lovegrove, Roger; Williams, Iolo; Williams, Graham (1994). Birds in Wales. London: T & AD Poyser. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-4081-3792-5. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ The archive of J.H. Salter at Aberystwyth University.
^ In 1952 a supplement is published: supplement 1952 (with a preface by Lily Newton)