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Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume ...
The Bowdler Sharpe sisters (fl. 1885 – 1910) were English colourists of ornithological illustrations. Between 1885 and 1910 at least seven of the ten daughters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe worked as colourists, painting lithographs drawn by Claude Wyatt, J.G. Keulemans and Henrik Grønvold. They are credited, sometimes by name and sometimes as a ...
Nov 22, 2017 · Richard Bowdler Sharpe, an English ornithologist, was born Nov. 22, 1847. Sharpe was a prominent ornithologist in his own right, publishing Monograph of the Kingfishers from 1868 to 1871, and Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise in 1891 and 1898, neither of which we have in our collections...
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May 11, 2018 · Works by Richard Bowdler Sharpe [ edit] Ailuroedus crassirostris. Ailuroedus dentirostris. Scenopoeetes dentirostris. Ailuroedus melanotis. Amblyornis subalaris. Astrapia nigra. Astrapia stephaniae. Chlamydera nuchalis.
RiCHARD BOWDLER SHARPE, an Honorary Fellow of the Ameri- can Ornithologists' Union, died at his home in Chiswick, London, on Christmas Day, 1909, at the age of 62 years, after a brief illness from pneumonia. . Dr. Sharpe was born in London, November 22, 1847, the eldest son of Thomas Bowdler Sharpe, a well-known publisher in London, and ...
November 22, 1847. Died. December 25, 1909. Genre. Nature, Science, Nonfiction. edit data. Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton College, The King's School, Peterborough and Loughborough Grammar School. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London. In 1864 he commenced his first ornithological work, the Monograph ...
Richard Bowdler Sharpe. LLD (Honoris causa, Aberdeen), FLS, FZS, MBOU. An Ornithologist , Sharpe was Assistant Keeper, Vertebrate Section of the British Museum’s Zoology Department from 1895-1909. He had a particular interest in classification and phylogeny and its relation to evolution. A distinguished international founding member of the ...
