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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 ...
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. Today, we feature Sharpe as the friend ...
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 ...
Today's featured article/January 5, 2023. Brazza's martin ( Phedinopsis brazzae) is a bird in the swallow family with grey-brown upperparts, black-streaked white underparts, and a brownish breast. The sexes are similar, but juveniles have more diffuse breast streaking. Its song is of a series of short notes of increasing frequency, followed by ...
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847 - 1909) RA Collection: People and Organisations Ornithologist. Profile. Born: 1847 Died: 1909. Nationality: British
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 ...
May 11, 2018 · Richard Bowdler Sharpe. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847-1909) [edit] 1890. c. 1900.
