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  1. 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). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds which reached England in the last twenty ...

  2. Jun 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 Polynesia (1769-75).

  3. online in 2006. 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.

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  5. John Latham 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). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds which reached England in the last twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. He named some of Australia's most famous ...

  6. 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. Latham’s works are notable for their naming of several species new to ...

  7. John Latham, who was to become England’s foremost ornithologist and recorder of new bird species at the end of the 18 th and beginning of the 19 centuries, was born on 27 June 1740 at Eltham in ...

  8. John Latham primary name: Latham, John ... For his work as an ornithologist he was elected FRS in 1775, and he was in correspondence with the leading naturalists of ...

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