Philip Lutley Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (born November 4, 1829 in Tangier Park , Hampshire , † June 27, 1913 in Odiham , Hampshire) was an English lawyer and zoologist .
Life
Sclater attended the prestigious private school Winchester College and studied at Christ Church College of Oxford University . There he studied ornithology with Hugh Edwin Strickland .
In December 1857 he was the first scientist to point out the existence of a biogeographical dividing line between Asian and Australian flora and fauna in the area of the East Indies in a lecture to the London Linnaeus Society . This line was later after the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace , as that formed a valid theory from the facts Wallace line called.
In 1858 Sclater published a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Linnean Society . He put together six zoological regions, which he called Palearctic, Ethiopian, Indian, Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropic. These zoological regions are still valid, but Alfred Russel Wallace was able to specify them.
In 1864 he published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Science , in which he pointed to the similarity of certain primate fossils in India and Madagascar, and suggested that there was a later submerged continent of Lemuria that connected Africa and India, and thus became one of the main proponents of the land bridge hypothesis .
He was the founder and editor of Ibis , the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union . From 1860 to 1903 he was secretary of the Zoological Society in London ( Zoological Society of London ). In 1860 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Sclater's more important works included Exotic Ornithology (1866–69) and Nomenclator Avium (1873), both with Osbert Salvin , Argentine Ornithology (1888–89) with William Henry Hudson and The Book of Antelopes (1894–1900) with Oldfield Thomas .
Several animal species have been named after Philip Sclater (recognized by the species name sclateri or sclateriana ), such as B. the crowned penguin ( Eudyptes sclateri ), the sclater shrew ( Sorex sclateri ) and the white-tailed pheasant ( Lophophorus sclateri ).
literature
- Daniel Giraud Elliot : In memoriam: Philip Lutley Sclater . In: The Auk . tape 31 , no. 1 , 1914, p. 1–12 ( online [PDF; accessed February 18, 2017]).
- Arthur Humble Evans: Philip Lutley Sclater . In: The Ibis . tape 1 , no. 4 , 1913, pp. 642–649 ( online [accessed July 25, 2012]).
- Unknown: News: Philip Lutley Sclater . In: Ornithological Yearbook . tape 24 , 1913, pp. 239 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sclater, Philip Lutley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lawyer and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tangier Park , Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1913 |
| Place of death | Odiham , Hampshire |