Jonathan Salt (botanist)
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Jonathan Salt (1759–1815) was a cutler and local naturalist who catalogued plants growing in the Sheffield area.[1][2]
He created a herbarium between 1773 and 1809, which provided the specimens for his Flora Sheffieldiensis.[3] Although being used extensively by Frederick Arnold Lees in his The Flora of West Yorkshire with a sketch of the climatology and lithology in connection therewith (1888), the catalogue only existed in manuscript form until its publication in The Story of South Yorkshire Botany in 2011.[2]
Salt's extensive herbarium is housed at Sheffield Museums Trust, alongside the manuscript copies of Flora Sheffieldiensis.