Benjamin Leadbeater

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Benjamin Leadbeater (born January 12, 1773 in Leeds , † March 22, 1851 in London ) was a British ornithologist , taxidermist and natural produce dealer.

Live and act

Benjamin Leadbeater was baptized in Saint Peter on February 23, 1773 . On December 26, 1796, he married Elizabeth Almley. With her he had the children Ann (born 1797), John (1800-1800. Died at four months), Elisabeth (born 1803), John Leadbeater Sr. (1804-1856) and Hannah (born 1806). As a widower, Leadbeater married Esther geb. Baker, who died three years after his death in April 1854.

He first opened a natural produce store at 19 Brewer Street around 1800. In 1824 he ran the trade together with his son John Leadbeater Sr. under the name Leadbeater & Son . When John died in 1856, his son Benjamin Leadbeater, Jr. (1830–1890) took over the business. Another son, John Leadbeater, Jr. (1831-1888) worked from 1857 as a taxidermist in the Melbourne Museum .

Henry Evans Lombe (1792–1878) bought a giant aalk from Leadbeater around 1822 , which was illustrated by John Hunt (1777–1842) in the third volume of British ornithology . In 1873, Lombes daughter EP Clarke bequeathed this preparation to the Norwich Museum.

  • Giant ak illustrated by John Hunt

  • Diamond Pheasant Engraving D. Allen as part of the first description

In 1829 he re- described the diamond pheasant for science. He dedicated the pheasant to Sarah Amherst geb. Archer (1762-1838) who had brought two live males to England.

Before Charles Darwin set off on his journey on the HMS Beagle , he sought advice from Leadbeater on how to protect the hides he had collected from being destroyed. He advised Darwin to rub the inside of the transport crates with turpentine and also to put in tobacco camphor .

Leadbeater seemed to have had a good relationship with Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858) from whom he had received many duplicates from the natural history museum in Leiden . Many bellows from his natural produce trade ended up in the Natural History Museum . In 1827 he bequeathed a specimen of a black swan to the Museum of the Linnean Society of London . For the 6th edition of A History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick , he provided a black diver to illustrate the work. In 1842, Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, bought a brown dwarf squirrel and a Japanese flying squirrel . Edward Smith-Stanley acquired many of his animal preparations between 1811 and 1846.

Leadbeater died in his former home on Camden Road .

Dedication names

Nicholas Aylward Vigors named the southern ground hornbill ( Bucorvus leadbeateri ) in 1825 and the Inca cockatoo ( Cacatua leadbeateri ) after him in 1831 . The violet-forehead brilliant hummingbird ( Heliodoxa leadbeateri ( Bourcier , 1843)) could honor him or his son John Leadbeater, Sr., since Jules Bourcier did not mention a first name in his dedication. Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte's genus Leadbeatera , which is now considered a synonym for Heliodoxa , can be traced back to the violet-forehead brilliant hummingbird.

Not Benjamin Leadbeater dedicated to the purple chest Hummingbird ( Urosticte benjamini ( Bourcier , 1851)), the Leadbeater's Possum ( Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy , 1867), Ptilotis leadbeateri McCoy , 1867, a synonym for the bushes Lohr honeyeater ( Lichenostomus cassidix ( Gould , 1867)) and Cyclopsitta leadbeateri McCoy , 1875, a synonym for the red- cheeked dwarf parrot subspecies ( Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana Ramsay, EP , 1874). Pardalotus leadbeateri is a name that Ramsay used in a reading before the Zoological Society. This paper was never published, however, because McCoy had anticipated it in 1866 with the publication of the yellow-rumped panther bird ( Pardalotus xanthopyge ). Since the name is provided with a reference to McCoy's description in the trade journal Ibis , the name is not considered a nudum noun under the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature .

Publications (selection)

  • Descriptions of some new species of birds belonging chiefly to the rare Genera Phytotoma, Gmel., Indicator, Vieill., And Cursorius, Latham . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . tape 16 , 1829, pp. 85-93 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1833).
  • On an undescribed Species of the Genus Phasianns . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . tape 16 , 1829, pp. 129-131 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1833).

literature

  • Thomas Bewick: A History of British Birds containing the History and Description of Water Birds . 6th edition. tape 2 . Edw. Walker, Newcastle 1832 ( books.google.de ).
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte: Conspectus generum avium . tape 1 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1850 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jules Bourcier: Oiseaux-mouches nouveaux . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 6 , 1843, pp. 99-104 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jules Bourcier: Note on our espèces de trochilidées . In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences . tape 32 , 1851, pp. 186-188 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hugh Steuart Gladstone: John Hunt 1777-1842 . In: Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London . tape 1 , 1917, p. 125-1837 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Hunt: British ornithology containing portraits of all the British birds including those of foreign origin which have become domesticated; drawn, engraved & colored afer Nature by J. Hunt with descriptions compiled from the works of the most esteemed Naturalists & arranged according to the Linnaen classification . tape 3 . Bacon, London ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1815-1822).
  • Linnean Society: Donations to the Museum of the Linnean Society . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . tape 15 , 1827, pp. 531-533 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1833, Exclusive of Presents of single Specimens of Animals, Plants, and Minerals).
  • Frederick McCoy: On a new Genus of Phalanger . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (=  3 ). tape 20 , 1867, p. 287-288 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Frederick McCoy: On a new Species of Victorian Honey-eater . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (=  3 ). tape 20 , 1867, p. 442 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Frederick McCoy: Note on an apparently new parrot from Cardwell, NE Australia . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology (=  4 ). tape 16 , 1875, pp. 54 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Barbara Mearns, Richard Mearns: The Bird Collectors . Academic Press Limited, London 1998, ISBN 0-12-487440-1 .
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe: The history of the collections contained in the Natural history departments of the British museum birds . tape 2 . Printed by order of the Trustees, London 1906 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Unknown: In Camden Road, aged 78 Mr. Benjamin Leadbeater the well known naturalist, formerly of Brewer-st. Golden sq. In: The Gentleman's magazine . tape 189 , 1851, pp. 566 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
  • Unknown: At Camden-road Villas, aged 79, Esther, relict of Benjamin Leadbeater, esq. In: The Gentleman's magazine . tape 191 , 1854, pp. 411 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).
  • Unknown: Letters, Announcements . In: The Ibis (=  2 ). tape 3 , 1867, p. 255-256 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Nicholas Aylward Vigors: Observations on the Natural Affinities that Connect the Orders and Families of Birds . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . tape 14 , 1825, p. 395-517 ( [1] ).
  • Nicholas Aylward Vigors: Mr. Vigors exhibited, from the collection of M. Leadbeater, an undescribed species of Cockatoo from New Holland, and pointed out its distinctive characters, which may expressed as follows . In: Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London . tape 1 , 1831, p. 61 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine . Volume 189, May 1851, p. 566 ( online ).
  2. ^ Leadbeater family, Piccadilly 1800 - 1882
  3. ↑ Unknown (1854), p. 441.
  4. ↑ Barbara Mearns, p. 96.
  5. ^ John Hunt, p. 9.
  6. ^ Hugh Steuart Gladstone, p. 136.
  7. ^ Benjamin Leadbeater (1829), p. 129.
  8. ↑ Darwin, CR [Notes on preserving Beagle specimens . CUL-DAR29.3.78]
  9. ^ Richard Bowdler Sharpe, p. 411.
  10. ^ Linnean Society, p. 532.
  11. ↑ Thomas Bewick, p. 182.
  12. ↑ The Spectator March 29, 1851 "Benjamin + leadbeater" Extract from which it emerges that he died there on March 22nd
  13. ^ Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1825), p. 460
  14. ^ Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1825), p. 61
  15. ↑ Jules Bourcier, p. 102.
  16. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, p. 70.
  17. ^ Jules Bourcier, p. 186
  18. ↑ Frederick McCoy (1867), pp. 287-288
  19. ↑ Frederick McCoy (1867), p. 442
  20. ↑ Frederick McCoy (1875), p. 54
  21. ↑ Unknown (1867), pp. 255-256
personal data
SURNAME Leadbeater, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist, taxidermist and natural produce dealer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1851
Place of death London