# David Meese

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{{short description|Dutch botanist}}
{{distinguish|text=American musician [David Meece](/source/David_Meece)}}
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|birth_date        = {{birth-date|25 December 1723}}
|birth_place       = [Leeuwarden](/source/Leeuwarden)
|death_date        = {{death-date and age|23 August 1770|25 December 1723}}
|death_place       = [Franeker](/source/Franeker)
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|field             = [Botany](/source/Botany)
|work_institutions = [University of Franeker](/source/University_of_Franeker)
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|known_for         = [Bryology](/source/Bryology)
|author_abbrev_bot = Meese
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thumb|right|Cover of the ''Flora frisica''
'''David Meese''' (25 December 1723 – 23 August 1770) was a Dutch [botanist](/source/botanist) notable for his authorship of the ''Flora frisica'' in 1760.<ref name="jstor">{{cite journal|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000500038|title=Meese, David (1723-1770) on JSTOR|access-date=20 November 2018}}</ref>

==Career==
Born into a low class family, Meese became a self taught [herbalist](/source/herbalist). His skills were recognized by the [University of Franeker](/source/University_of_Franeker) where he was placed in charge of the academic gardens at the college in 1752.<ref name=aa>
[Aa, A. J.](/source/Abraham_Jacob_van_der_Aa) (1859). Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden (Deel. 12-1). Retrieved from http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/vdaa/#source=aa__001biog14_01.xml&page=523&view=imagePane&accessor=accessor_index&accessor_href=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/vdaa/accessor_index/index_html?page=523&source=aa__001biog14_01.xml&id=accessor_index</ref>

In 1760, Meese published a flora of [Friesland](/source/Friesland), the ''Flora frisica'', which followed the [Linnaean](/source/Carl_Linnaeus) system of classification. He followed this with the publication of the two-part ''Plantarum rudimenta etc.'' in 1763, written in both Latin and Dutch.<ref name=mol>Molhuysen, P. C., Blok, P. J., Knappert, L., & Kossmann, K. H. (1911). Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek (Deel. 10). Retrieved from http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/#source=10&page=308&view=imagePane</ref> He was known for his experiments into [moss](/source/moss) physiology. He investigated the propagation of the common hair moss, ''[Polytrichum commune](/source/Polytrichum_commune)'', and was among the first to write an account on the morphology of spore germination.<ref name="jstor"/><ref>Meyer, S. (1947). Physiological Studies on Mosses. VI. Spore Germination and Protonema Development in Physcomitrium turbinatum (Michx.) Brid. The Bryologist, 50(4), 403-408. doi:10.2307/3239646</ref>

Among his inventions was a special seeder, which was a wooden cart with two wheels and holes on the back wall to allow seed to pass through.<ref name=aa/> He also invented a seed drill.<ref name=mol/>

The moss genus ''[Meesia](/source/Meesia)'' was named after him in 1788 by his contemporary [Johann Hedwig](/source/Johann_Hedwig).<ref name=jstor/>

==Publications==
*{{cite book|last1=Meese|first1=David|title=Flora frisica: of, Lyst der planten welke in de provintie Friesland in het wilde gevonden worden; waar by gevoegt is een korte beschryvinge van boovengenoemde landschap|date=1760|publisher=gedrukt by Jacob Brouwer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dcZAAAAYAAJ}}
*{{cite book|last1=Meese|first1=David|title= Het XIX classe van de Genera plantarum van de heer Carolus Linnæus, Syngenesia genaamt: Opgeheldert en vermeerdert : Mitsgaders etc.|date=1761|publisher=by H.A. de Chalmot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfdcAAAAcAAJ}}
*{{cite book|last1=Meese|first1=David|last2=Borbone di Napoli casa|title=Plantarum rudimenta, sive illarum methodus. Ducta ex differentia earum seminum, cotyledonum, aliarumque partium, quae brevi tempore post earum propullulationem, ac ulterius incrementum, in iis conspiciuntur|date=1763|publisher=excudit Guilielmus Coulon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMt6-oBwhaMC}}
*{{cite book|last1=Meese|first1=David|title=Antwoord op de vraag: welke zyn de beste en minst kostbaare middelen, om het afneemen der oevers van het Haarlemmer Meer te beletten?|date=1768|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIH3PvcxCw4C}}

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Category:Dutch bryologists
Category:People from Leeuwarden

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