Arthur Hugh Lister (1830–1908) was a wine merchant and botanist, known for his research on

Mycetozoa Mycetozoa is a polyphyletic grouping of slime molds. It was originally thought to be a monophyletic clade, but in 2010 it was discovered that protostelia are a polyphyletic group within Conosa. Classification It can be divided into dictyoste ...

also known as slime molds.

Life

Lister was born in Upton House, Upton, Essex. He was the youngest son of

Joseph Jackson Lister Joseph Jackson Lister FRS FRMS (11 January 1786 – 24 October 1869) was an English opticist and physicist best known for being the father of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister. Life In 1705, Thomas Lister, a farmer and maltster, of Bingley, Yo ...

, a brother of the celebrated

Joseph Lister Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of aseptic, antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Joseph Lister revolutionised the Sur ...

, and father of the mycologist and botanical illustrator

Gulielma Lister Gulielma Lister (28 October 1860 – 18 May 1949) was a British botanist and mycologist who was considered an international authority on Mycetozoa. Life Lister was born in Sycamore House, 881 High Road, Leytonstone (East London) on 28 October 1 ...

. He was educated at Hitchin and left school at sixteen to go into business. He became a partner in a company of wine merchants and retired from business in 1888. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1873 and was the Society's vice-president in 1895–1896. He was president of the Mycological Society in 1906–1907. He married in 1855 and was the father of four daughters and three sons, one of whom was the zoologist

. Much of Arthur Lister's scientific work was done in collaboration with his daughter Gulielma. On 9 June 1898, Lister was elected to the fellowship of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

. He was honoured in 1901, when botanists Penzig & P.A.Saccardo published ''Listeromyces'', Then in 1906, Eduard Adolf Wilhelm Jahn published ''

Listerella paradoxa ''Listerella paradoxa'' is a slime mould species from the class Myxogastria and the only member of its genus as well as the family Listerelliidae. The species is so far only found on the wattle genus ''Cladonia'', mostly in European temperate zo ...

'' which is a slime mould

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

from the

class Class, Classes, or The Class may refer to: Common uses not otherwise categorized * Class (biology), a taxonomic rank * Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects * Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used d ...

Myxogastria Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, ICZN) or Myxomycetes ( ICN) is a class of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera, and 888 species. They are colloquially known as the ''plasmodial'' or ''acellula ...

and the only member of its

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

, as well as the

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

''Listerelliidae''.Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: ''Mycetozoa'' In: ''An illustrated guide to the protozoa : organisms traditionally referred to as protozoa, or newly discovered groups'', Society of Protozoologists, p. 962, 2000

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lister, Arthur Hugh 1830 births 1908 deaths 19th-century English botanists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Royal Society