Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist)

Cuthbert Collingwood (born December 25, 1826 in Christchurch , Hampshire , † October 20, 1908 in Lewisham ) was a British naturalist .

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Cuthbert Collingwood was the fifth of six sons of the architect and builder Samuel Collingwood of Wellington Grove in Greenwich and his wife Frances, second daughter of the printer at the University of Oxford Samuel Collingwood. He was educated at King's College School , London , and was enrolled at Christ Church College , Oxford on April 8, 1845 . There Collingwood graduated from BA in 1849, MA in 1852 and finally MB in 1854. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge as well as at Guy's Hospital in London . He also deepened his medical knowledge in Paris and Vienna .

On November 1, 1853, Collingwood was elected a member of the Linnean Society of London , for whose council he served in 1868. From 1858 to 1866, Collingwood was a lecturer in botany at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary . He also taught at the Liverpool School of Science and was a doctor at the Northern Hospital in Liverpool. For several years he was Honorary Secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society and published two articles on ornithology in their journal in 1861 and 1862 . He also wrote about marine organisms dredged in the River Mersey , about the four-handed ("Quadrumana"), and about extinct species in Lancashire and Cheshire .

From 1866 to 1867 served as Collingwood physician and naturalist aboard the HMS Rifleman and the HMS Serpent which the China Sea explored. After his return he published the results of his work in his most important work, Rambles of a naturalist on the shores and waters of the China Sea .

In 1869 he married Clara Mowbray († 1871). The couple had no children. From 1901 to 1907 Collingwood lived in Paris. Collingwood was a Swedenborgian and, in addition to his 40 or so essays on natural history, wrote numerous articles about his beliefs.

Fonts (selection)

• Rambles of a naturalist on the shores and waters of the China Sea. Being observations in natural history during a voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore, etc., made in Her Majesty's vessels in 1866 and 1867 . John Murray, London 1868 ( online ).
• A vision of creation. A poem . Longmans, Green, & Co., London 1872 ( online ).
• New Studies in Christian Theology. Being thirty three lectures on the life and teaching of our Lord . Elliot Stock, London 1883 - anonymous
• The Bible and the age; or, An elucidation of the principles of a consistent and verifiable interpretation of Scripture . TF Unwin, London 1886 ( online) .

literature

• BDJ: In: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 121, 1909, p. 35 ( online ).
• Robert Steele, rev. Giles Hudson: Collingwood, Cuthbert (1826-1908). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 12: Clegg-Const. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861362-8 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), Last updated: 2004, accessed October 1, 2012.
• Who Was Who. A Companion To “Who's Who” containing the Biographies of those who died during the Period 1897-1916 . London 1920, p. 148 ( online ).

Web links

• Correspondence with Charles Darwin