- Hans Friedrich Gadow
Hans Friedrich Gadow (
March 8 ,1855 -May 16 ,1928 ) was a Germanornithologist .Gadow was born in
Pomerania , the son of an inspector of the Prussian royal forests. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. At Jena he studied underErnst Haeckel and at Heidelberg under the anatomistKarl Gegenbaur . After graduation he travelled to theNatural History Museum in London at the request ofAlbert Günther , to work on the Museum's "Catalogue of Birds". Gadow prepared volume VIII on the Titmice, Shrikes and Nuthatches, and volume IX on the Sunbirds and Honeyeaters.In 1884 Gadow succeeded
Osbert Salvin as Curator of the Strickland Collection atCambridge University , as well as being appointed Lecturer on the Morphology of Vertebrates. He became a member of theBritish Ornithologists' Union in 1881 and a fellow of theRoyal Society in 1892. He married Clara Maud Paget, daughter of Sir George E. Paget.Gadow's publications included "Classification of the Vertebra" (1898), a translation of Haeckel's work entitled "The Last Link" (1898) and the articles on anatomy in
Alfred Newton 's "Dictionary of Birds".References
* [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v045n04/p0538-p0546.pdf Obituary in The Auk]
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