Alvah Augustus Eaton (November 20, 1865 – September 29, 1908) was an American botanist who described many species of pteridophytes, orchids and grass.
[1] Eaton was born in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and moved to a family farm in Salisbury, Massachusetts when he was twelve.
He went on three field trips to Florida and one to Europe for the Ames Botanical Laboratory in Easton, Massachusetts.
Eaton issued the exsiccata-like series The genus Equisetum in North America.
The documents consist of sixteen notebooks written between approximately 1895 and 1906, four letters from 1899 to 1905, and a few undated manuscripts.