Charles Davies Sherborn

Charles Davies Sherborn

Charles Davies Sherborn (30 June 1861, Chelsea, London – 1942) was an English taxonomist. He wrote Index Animalium, an 11 volume, 9,000 page work that catalogued the 444,000 names of every living and extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850.[1] Sherborn was the first president of the Society for the History of Natural History, 1936–1942.

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