Charles Davies Sherborn

Charles Davies Sherborn

Charles Davies Sherborn (30 June 1861, Chelsea, London1942) 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, 19361942.

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