Edward Blyth
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Edward Blyth was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He catalogued the specimens in the collection
Edward Blyth
Dedication page of Hume's "My Scrapbook" (1869)
Family grave of Edward Blyth in Highgate Cemetery (west side)
Robert Swinhoe
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Robert Swinhoe FRS was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after
Edward Blyth
…Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849. He did not collect specimens himself but received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. His Natural History of the Cranes was published posthumously in 1881. On 23 December 1810, Blyth was born in London. His father, a cloth…
Illustration of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) sent by Robert Swinhoe to John Edward Gray at the British Museum.