Hugh Edwin Strickland ( English Hugh Edwin Strickland ; 1811-1853) - English geologist and ornithologist and systematist.
| Hugh Edwin Strickland | |
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| English Hugh edwin strickland | |
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| Date of Birth | March 2, 1811 |
| Place of Birth | Reinghton, Yorkshire |
| Date of death | September 14, 1853 (42 years old) |
| Place of death | Retford, Nottinghamshire |
| A country | Great Britain |
| Scientific field | geology , ornithology |
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| Awards and prizes | member of the Royal Society of London |
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Strickland " . |
Biography
Strickland studied at Oxford. In 1835, he accompanied the English geologist William John Hamilton (1805-1867) on his trip to the East and published as a result of this trip: " Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae " (London, 1847-54) and " The Dodo and its kindred " (London , 1848).
Later, as a professor of geology, he supported Roderick Murchison at Oxford in preparatory work on the stratigraphy of the Silurian period . After the scientist died under the wheels of a train in 1853 as a result of an accident, his collection of 6,000 birds was transferred to Cambridge University .
Publications
- Ornithological Synonyms (1855)