Charles Russell Orcutt

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Charles Russell Orcutt or C.R. Orcutt (born 1864 in Hartland, Vermont; died in Haiti August 25, 1929) was a noted naturalist sometimes called "cactus man" because he grew cacti. He moved to San Diego in 1879. He worked with his father, collecting plant specimens in the San Diego area and Baja California, until 1885. In 1884 he began The West American Scientist, which he irregularly published until 1919. He began to be referred to as witty and as a hopeless eccentric. The year 1892 proved significant for him as his father died and he married a doctor from Michigan named Olive E. Eddy. Her medical practice did much to support them and with her sister she published a magazine titled Out of Doors For Women. The couple had four children.[1] C.R. Orcutt's main scientific interests were malacology and botany. In later life he did a great deal of work in Jamaica and also Haiti.[2] The genus Orcuttia is named for him.[3]

The standard author abbreviation Orcutt is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ↑ San Diego History Center article by Anne D. Bullard
  2. ↑ Smithsonian Institution Archives
  3. ↑ Jepson Manual Treatment: Orcuttia
  4. ↑ "Author Query for 'Orcutt'". International Plant Names Index. 
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