Anna Blackburne

Anna Blackborne is a Naturaliste British, born in 1726 in Orford Hall, Orford (Cheshire) and died in 1793 with Warrington.

It is the girl of Jane (born Ashton) and John Blackburne. His/her father, fortunate commercial of salt, studied the natural history and had famous greenhouses which had the admiration of Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). Initiated with the natural history by her father, it is devoted in the years 1800, with their study in a more systematic way. For better including/understanding the system developed by Carl von Linné (1707-1778), it apparent it Latin. It corresponds with Linné and Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798), this last encouraging it to make appear its entomological observations. and of devotes itself to the museum of Oxford Hall in Lancashire. It enriches the collections by Insecte S in particular thanks to the sendings of Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). His/her brother, installed with the the United States of America, forwards to him of many specimens in particular of birds which will be described by Pennant. It forwards in Linné specimens of birds and insects which were not described in its Systema Naturae

Johan Christian Fabricius (1745-1808), the pupil of Linné, will dedicate to him the Geotrupes blackburnii in 1781. The Paruline with orange throat ( Dendroica fusca ) bears in English the name of Blackburnian Warbler , described by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725-1776) in 1776.

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