Osbert Salvin

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Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin (born February 25, 1835 in Elmshurst, Finchley , Middlesex , † June 1, 1898 in Hawksfold near Fernhurst , Sussex ) was an English naturalist .

Live and act

Salvin is best known as co-editor and co-author of Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879–1915), along with Frederick DuCane Godman . It is a 63-volume encyclopedia of the flora and fauna of Central America .

Salvin was the second son of Anthony Salvin , an architect from Hawksfold, Sussex . He studied at Westminster and Trinity Hall , Cambridge ; he received his diploma in 1857. Shortly afterwards he accompanied a second cousin, Henry Baker Tristram , on an expedition to Tunisia and eastern Algeria . Their results were published in The Ibis in 1859 and 1860 . In the fall of 1857 he made his first of many trips to Guatemala and returned with Godman in 1861. During this trip the Biologia Centrali-Americana was planned.

In 1871 he became editor of The Ibis . He was in the Strickland curatorship of the University of Cambridge appointed and created a Catalog of the Strickland Collection . He was a founding member of the British Ornithologists' Union . He created the volumes on hummingbirds and petrels in the Catalog of Birds in the British Museum . One of his last works was the completion of Lord Lilford's Colored Figures of British Birds in 1897.

Salvin was a member of the Royal Society , the Linnean Society of London , the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Entomological Society of London, and at his death also Secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union .

Honors

The Godman-Salvin Medal, a prestigious award from the British Ornithologists' Union, is named after him. The plant genus Osbertia Greene from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is also named after him.

literature

  • William Herbert Mullens, Harry Kirke Swann : A Bibliography of British Ornithology. (1917 / reprint 1986: ISBN 0-85486-098-3 ).
  • N. Papavero, S. Ibáñez-Bernal: Contributions to a history of Mexican dipterology.– Part 2. The Biologia Centrali-Americana . In: Acta Zoologica Mexicana (ns) Volume 88, 2003, pp. 143-232. ecologia.edu.mx ( Memento from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), as of December 16, 2008, viewed July 16, 2011 (PDF, 540 kB, Spanish)
  • Bernard Barham Woodward:  Salvin, Osbert . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Suppl. 1, Volume 3:  How - Woodward. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1901, pp. 335 - 336 (English, (picture display, article not yet digitized) ).
  • Clemency Thorne Fisher: Salvin, Osbert (1835-1898). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  • Philip Lutley Sclater : Obituary Osbert Salvin . In: The Ibis (=  7 ). tape 4 , 1898, p. 626–627 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed January 20, 2015]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salvin, Osbert . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 5 : Pace – Spyers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1953, pp. 407 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Clemency Thorne Fisher: Salvin, Osbert (1835–1898) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (license required )
  3. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .