- Charles Davies Sherborn
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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.
References
- ^ Karolyn Shindler (19 July 2011). "Charles Davies Sherborn, the Natural History Museum's 'magpie with a card-index mind’". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natural-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
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