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
Illustration of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) sent by Robert Swinhoe to John Edward Gray at the British Museum.
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
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…London Zoo. The first Pere David's deer in Europe came from him. His primary interest was however in birds and on these he corresponded extensively with Edward Blyth. Around 1871, he started suffering from partial paralysis and he moved to the Yantai which he called the "Scarborough of China". He was forced by his…
Edward Blyth
Dedication page of Hume's "My Scrapbook" (1869)
Family grave of Edward Blyth in Highgate Cemetery (west side)