Edward Bartlett

Edward Bartlett (1836 - 1908) was an English ornithologist. He was the son of Abraham Dee Bartlett. [cite web
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Bartlett accompanied Henry Baker Tristram to Palestine in 1863-64, and collected in the Amazon basin and Peru in 1865-69. He was curator at the Maidstone Museum from 1875 to 1890, and curator of the Sarawak Museum from 1893 to 1897.

One of his most notable publications, though uncompleted at the time of his death, was his "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches", of which five parts were published in 1888-89. [Palmer, T.S. (1944). Obituary - Edward Bartlett. "Auk" 61: 504-505.]

Species named after Bartlett include Bartlett's Tinamou "Crypturellus bartletti" of Peru - the name being assigned in 1873 by fellow British ornithologists Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin.

Honours

* 1889 - elected a Corresponding Member of the American Ornithologists' Union
* 1897 - elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

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