Francis Willughby
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Francis Willughby FRS was an English Ornithologist, ichthyologist, mathematician and an early student of linguistics and games.
The Willughby family home at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire
Lady Cassandra Ridgeway, Willughby's mother
In South Wales, Willughby and Ray saw a rare black-winged stilt shown here in the Ornithologiae Libri Tres as "Himantopus".
Approximate reconstruction of the journeys through Europe Willughby, Ray, Bacon and Skippon Ray and Skippon to Sicily and Malta Willughby and Bacon head north Willughby alone
Ichthyology
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Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year.
Fish represent approximately 8% of all figurative depictions on Mimbres pottery.
Frontispiece from Ichthyologia, sive Opera Omnia de Piscibus by Peter Artedi
Image: Male whale shark at Georgia Aquarium
Image: Paedocypris progenetica 001