Edward Griffith ( born Edward Griffith ; 1790 - January 8, 1858 ) - British naturalist and solicitor . One of the first members 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 " Griffith " . |
Born in the village of county Middlesex in the family of William Griffith.
Griffith wrote General and Particular Descriptions of the Vertebrated Animals, 1821. He completed only the first part of the work, devoted to lemurs and monkeys . The work was important, mainly due to its unusually psychologically insightful [ what? ] and expressive images of orangutans and chimpanzees . Griffith's main work on zoology is the translation of the work of Georges Cuvier “Règne animal” (1827-1835), which he added at his discretion with five volumes of the second French edition to sixteen volumes of the English edition.
A collection of 150 watercolor drawings of butterflies from Asia, Africa, South and Central America is in the British Museum of Natural History in London [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ Biodiversity Heritage Library
- ↑ Website des Natural History Museum
Literature
- Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee, George Smith (Hrsg.): Dictionary of National Biography , 1890, Seite 230
- Hubert Massey Whittell: The Literature of Australian Birds. A History and a Bibliography of ... , Paterson Brokenshaw Pty., 1954, Seite 306
Links
- References in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library