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Awards. FRS. Scientific career. Fields. Ornithology. Author abbrev. (zoology) Latham. John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author. His main works were A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) and General History of Birds (1821–1828).
Jun 27, 2018 · JUNE 27, 2018. John Latham, an English ornithologist and scientific illustrator, was born June 27, 1740. Latham did not travel much himself, but he was at the right spot at the right time when a boatload of newly discovered birds descended on England, in the form of drawings and skins, the result of Captain Cook’s voyages to Australia and ...
John Latham (1740-1837), ornithologist, was born on 27 June 1740 at Eltham, Kent, England, son of John Latham, a surgeon. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, studied anatomy under the radical surgeon John Hunter, and after completing his medical education at London hospitals practised medicine for many years at Dartford.
Description. John Latham was an ornithologist and was one of the founding members of the Linnean Society. Famous for his two ten-volume histories of birds A General Synopsis of Birds (1781-5) and A General History of Birds (1821-8), Latham had his own collection of bird specimens from which he drew and etched the plates for the works.
Introduction. New information about Dr John Latham, F.L.S., the famous ornithologist who recorded the numerous imports of undescribed bird species from the British colonies between 1780 and...
Latham’s A General Synopsis was able to expand the number of bird species identified, from Linnaeus’s 444 in 1758 to 3000 in 1802, the year the final volume of Index Ornithologicus was published. ANNA WELCH The La Trobe Journal No. 100 September 2017 John Latham, A General Synopsis of Birds ... , London, printed for Benj. White, 1781–1802.
Men of Kent and Kentishmen. by John Hutchinson. John Latham. Stephen Langton. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, taxonomy, Wikidata item. John Latham, ORNITHOLOGIST, Was born at Eltham in 1740, and brought up to the medical profession which he practised at Dartford, Romney, and finally at Winchester.
