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Philip Lutley Sclater FRS FRGS FZS FLS (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years, from 1860 to 1902.
The British lawyer and zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) noted the particular distribution of a particular group of primates - the Lemurs.
Jan 19, 2024 · Philip Sclater proposed Lemuria, a hypothetical land bridge between Madagascar and India, in 1864 to explain the distribution of lemurs. Lemuria became a popular topic of speculation and pseudoscience, inspiring various theories about its origin, history, and culture.
Lemuria ( / lɪˈmjʊəriə / ), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins. The theory was discredited with the discovery of plate tectonics and continental drift in the 20th century. [1]
history of biogeography. In biogeographic region: History. …1858 by the English ornithologist Philip L. Sclater, who based his division of the terrestrial world on the distributions of birds. In the 1870s the biologist Adolf Engler devised a schema based on plant distributions.
Nov 4, 2014 · Learn about the life and work of Philip Lutley Sclater, a British ornithologist who founded the journal Ibis in 1859. See examples of his lithographs and paintings of birds from around the world.
Sclater, Philip Lutley (England 1829-1913) ornithology. A well known and highly productive (over 1400 publications) ornithologist in his own day, Sclater is remembered today primarily for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. The system is still in common use today.
