Edward Griffith
Edward Griffith (* 1790 ; † 1858 ) was a British naturalist and lawyer .
He was the son of William Griffith from Stanwell in Middlesex .
Griffith wrote General and Particular Descriptions of the Vertebrated Animals (1821). The work is particularly significant because of its psychologically unusually sensitive and expressive images of monkeys and the two great ape species known at the time, orangutan and chimpanzee. Griffith's main zoological work is the translation of Georges Cuvier 's Règne animal (1827–1835), which he expanded from the five volumes of the second French edition to sixteen volumes of the English edition and supplemented it according to his own knowledge.
A collection of 150 watercolor drawings of butterflies from Asia , Africa , South and Central America is in the British Natural History Museum in London .
literature
- Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee, George Smith (Eds.): Dictionary of National Biography , 1890, 230
- Hubert Massey Whittell: The Literature of Australian Birds. A History and a Bibliography of ... , Paterson Brokenshaw Pty., 1954, p. 306
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Griffith, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1790 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1858 |