Daniel Cady Eaton was an American botanist and author. He gained his bachelor's degree at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, then went on to Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 where he studied with Asa Gray

Asa Gray

-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....

. He then went back to Yale where he was a botany professor and herbarium

Herbarium

In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...

 curator.

He also worked in Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

, contributing to the US-Mexican Boundary Survey and various geological surveys.

Partial list of publications by D. C. Eaton:

• Beautiful Ferns; from Original Water-Color Drawings after Nature. Paintings by C. E. Faxon and J. H. Emerton. Nims & Knight, Troy, New York. 1887 (c. 1885). 96 pp, 10 plates.
• 'Enumeration of the Ferns of Cuba and Venezuela. 1860.
• The Ferns of North America, Volumes 1-2. 81 color plates by J. H. Emerton and C E. Faxon. Boston, Massachusetts. 1879-1880. Folio.
• Systematic Fern List [Eastern North America]. 1880.

Partial list of species named by D. C. Eaton:

• Asplenium bradleyi
  Asplenium bradleyi
  Bradley's spleenwort, Asplenium bradleyi, is a rare rock fern of the Appalachian area of eastern North America. It is a species of hybrid origin. The parents are Asplenium montanum and Asplenium platyneuron. The hybrid became a species with a doubling of the chromosome number, hence this species...
  
  
• Dryopteris clintoniana
  Dryopteris clintoniana
  Dryopteris clintoniana, commonly known as Clinton's wood fern, is a fern of hybrid origin native to the northern hemisphere. It is a fertile hexaploid, arising as a species by doubling of its chromosome number from a hybrid between Dryopteris cristata, a tetraploid, and Dryopteris goldiana, a...
  
  (as Aspidium cristatum var. clintonianum)
• Pellaea mucronata
• Woodsia scopulina