Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist)
- Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist)
Joseph Jackson Lister (1857-1927) was a British zoologist and plant collector from Leytonstone who collected biological specimens during travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific region.[ [http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555%2FAL.AP.PERSON.BM000036930 Aluka entry on Joseph Jackson Lister] ] ]Lister attended St John's College, Cambridge where he was appointed Demonstrator in Animal Morphology in 1881, and Senior Lecturer in Animal Morphology in 1892. During 1887-1888 he also served as volunteer naturalist on the surveying voyage of HMS Egeria to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, where he made valuable collections, and to the Pacific. He is commemorated in the scientific names of the orchid "Phreatia listeri" Rolfe,[ and Lister's Gecko, "Lepidodactylus listeri". [Cogger, H. (2006). "National Recovery Plan for Lister’s Gecko Lepidodactylus listeri and the Christmas Island Blind Snake Typhlops exocoeti".Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra. ISBN 0642 552258 [http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/pubs/l-listeri-t-exocoeti.pdf] ] ]References
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