William Sharp Macleay
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William Sharp Macleay or McLeay was a British civil servant and entomologist. He was also a prominent promoter of the Quinarian system of classification.
Mitchell Library, NSW, before 1865
Classification of insects under the Quinarian system by Macleay, schematic diagram from an 1845 book by James Rennie.
Quinarian system
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The quinarian system was a method of zoological classification which was popular in the mid 19th century, especially among British naturalists. It was largely developed by the entomologist William Sha
William Sharp Macleay
…William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865) was a British civil servant and entomologist. He was also a prominent promoter of the Quinarian system of classification. After graduating, he worked for the British embassy in Paris, following his interest in natural history and at the same time, publishing essays on…
Swainson's Quinarian structure of birds
Nicholas Aylward Vigors's Quinarian classification of birds. The missing entries represented groups that he expected remained to be discovered.
William Swainson's arrangement of the insects, with analogies to the vertebrates