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Richard Bowdler Sharpe ( November 22 , 1847 - December 25 , 1909 ) was an English Zoologist .

Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton , Peterborough and Loughborough . At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London. In 1864 he commenced his first ornithological work, the ''Monograph of the Kingfishers'' (1868-71).

In 1867 Sharpe was given the post of librarian of the Zoological Society , on the recommendation of Osbert Salvin and Philip Sclater . On the death of George Robert Gray in 1872 he joined the British Museum as a Senior Assistant in the Department of Zoology, taking charge of the bird collection. He became Assistant Keeper in 1895, remaining there until his death from Pneumonia .

Sharpe founded the British Ornithologists' Club in 1892 and edited its bulletin. He wrote thirteen and a half of the 27 volumes of the ''Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum'' (1874-1898).


PUBLICATIONS

  • ''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- {Link without Title} ...'' (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).



REFERENCE

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



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