James Douglas Ogilby
James Douglas Ogilby (born February 16, 1853 in Belfast , Ireland , † August 11, 1925 in Brisbane , Australia ) was an Irish-born Australian zoologist and ichthyologist .
Life
James Douglas Ogilby was born in Belfast on February 16, 1853. His father was the respected barrister and naturalist William Ogilby , his mother Adelaide Charlotte Douglas. He had six siblings. James Douglas trained at Winchester College in England and Trinity College (Dublin) .
From 1874 to 1876 he wrote papers on Irish fish and birds, he worked for the British Museum and spent some time in Texas. From this time a catalog of the birds of Navarro County resulted from him. In 1884 Ogilby married the commoner Mary Jane Jameson against his mother's wishes and emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a research assistant at the Australian Museum in Sydney from 1885 . There he wrote works on mammals, reptiles and especially fish. In 1887 James Douglas Ogilby was appointed a member of the Linnean Society of London . In 1890 he was fired for repeated drunkenness at work.
Ogilby then worked on a contract basis. He published the Catalog of Australian Mammals in 1892 and Edible Fishes and Crustaceans of New South Wales in 1893 . Between 1885 and 1899 he published a total of more than 80 scientific papers, including 22 together with Edward Pierson Ramsay in the proceedings of the local Linnaeus Society.
Around 1903 Ogilby moved to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane as an employed ichthyologist . From 1913 to 1916 he published a series of articles on the Queensland edible fish and was a member of the Royal Society of Queensland for a time .
James Douglas Ogilby died on August 11, 1925 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery. The Amateur Fishermen's Association of Queensland , of which he was honorary curator for several years, built the J. Douglas Ogilby Cottage on Bribie Island .
Although mostly a taxonomist , his work was also of great commercial importance. His research has been rated by colleagues (such as the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan ) as very high quality. A good dozen species of fish have been named in honor of Ogilby.
Web links
- GP Walsh: Ogilby, James Douglas (1853-1925) , Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography with photo at the Australian Museum, Sidney, accessed on May 5, 2014 (English)
- ^ William Eschmeyer: Catalog of Fishes (accessed May 6, 2014)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ogilby, James Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish-Australian ichthyologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belfast , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1925 |
| Place of death | Brisbane , Australia |