George Crawford Hyndman
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George Crawford Hyndman was an Irish auctioneer and amateur biologist.
Hyndman's insect diary
Dredging for marine animals in 1849
The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society was founded in 1821 to promote the scientific study of animals, plants, fossils, rocks and minerals.
George Crawford Hyndman
…Jeffreys). This operated from 1857 to 1859, under grants from the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society. He contributed to S. A. Stewart and T. H. Corry's Flora of the North-east. William Thompson named the Panningia hyndmani, a hermit crab for him as the…
The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Museum at No. 7 College Square North, completed in 1831. The portico is an exact copy of the octagon tower of Andronicus in Athens.
The Museum in 1831. The architects were Thomas Duff and Thomas Jackson. The building has three stories. In the lower story were the lecture-room and library. Each of the upper stories is a single room, forty-seven feet in length, and twenty-seven feet wide, which housed the public museum. A laboratory was later attached to the lecture room.
Specimen of an emperor penguin donated to the Belfast Natural History Society by Francis Crozier
Plate from On the Polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian Cuneiform Writing Edward Hincks