Richard Bowdler Sharpe

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe (* 22. November 1847 zu London; † 25. Dezember 1909) war en engleschen Zoolog a Ornitholog.

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De Sharpe huet zu Brighton, Peterborough an Loughborough studéiert. Am Alter vun 16 Joer huet hie fir Smith & Sons zu London geschafft. Am Joer 1864 huet hie mat sengem éischten ornithologische Wierk ugefaangen, dem Monograph of the Kingfishers (1868-1871).

Op de Virschlag vum Osbert Salvin an Philip Lutley Sclater gouf hien 1867 Bibliothekar vun der Zoological Society of London. Nom Dout vum George Robert Gray gouf hien 1872 Senior Assistant am Britische Musée zu London an huet et sech zur Aufgab gemaach eng Vullekollektioun hierzestellen. 1895 gouf hien assisteirenden Museumsoppasser an huet des Aarbecht bis zu sengem Dout, am Joer 1909, behal. Hien as un énger Longenentzündung gestuerwen.

De Sharpe huet 1892 den British Ornithologists' Club gegrënnt. Desweideren huet hien 13,5 vun insgesamt 27 Bänn vum Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum (1874-1898) geschriwwen.

[Änneren] Wierker

• Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum. (1874).
• Catalogue of the Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British museum. (1875).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Coliomorphae... (1877).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.I... (1879).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.III-[IV]... (1881-83).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.I... (1885).
• A monograph of the Hirundinidae, (1894).
• A Monograph of The Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers (1868 - 1871).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.III... (1888).
• Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Sturniformes... (1890).
• Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British museum. Coraciae... (1892).
• Catalogue of the Fulicariae... and Alectorides... in the collection of the British museum. (1894).
• Catalogue of the Limicolae in the collection of the British museum. (1896).
• Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British museum. (1898).

[Änneren] Literatur

• Mullens & Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)