Hans Friedrich Gadow

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Hans Friedrich Gadow (8 March 1855 – 16 May 1928) was a

ornithologist who worked in Britain.[1] His work on the classification of birds based on anatomical and morphological characters was influential and made use of by Alexander Wetmore in his classification of North American
birds.

Gadow was born in

titmice, shrikes and nuthatches, and Volume IX on the sunbirds and honeyeaters.[5][6]

In 1884 Gadow succeeded

Cambridge University, as well as being appointed Lecturer on the Morphology of Vertebrates. He became a member of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1881 and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1882. He married Clara Maud Paget, daughter of Sir George E. Paget.[5][7]

In 1895 and 1896 Gadow and his wife made two journeys along northern Spain, from the Basque Country to Galicia. In 1897 Gadow published In Northern Spain, the book that gathered together the very interesting observations on geography, ethnography, and fauna and flora he had made.[5]

Gadow's publications included Classification of the Vertebrata (1898), a translation of Haeckel's work entitled The Last Link (1898) and the articles on anatomy in Alfred Newton's Dictionary of Birds.[5]

Gadow is commemorated in the scientific names of three species of Mexican lizards: Abronia gadovii, Anolis gadovii, and Urosaurus gadovi.[8] His wife Clara Maud Gadow (née Paget) is commemorated in the scientific name of one species of Mexican lizard, Sceloporus gadoviae.[8]

References

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Hans Friedrich Gadow
  1. ^ "Gadow, Hans Friedrich". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 650.
  2. S2CID 29882684
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  3. ISSN 1474-919X
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  4. ^ Gadow, Hans (1892). "On the classification of birds". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1892: 229–256.
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    JSTOR 4075686
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  6. JSTOR 3677024
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  7. ISSN 0950-1193
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  8. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
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