Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland | |
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Born | Reighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England | 2 March 1811
Died | 14 September 1853 | (aged 42)
Citizenship | Britain |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geology Ornithology Natural history Systematics |
Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English
Biography
Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, and grandson of Sir George Strickland, bart., of Boynton. In 1827 he was sent as a pupil to Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), a family friend.[1]
As a boy he acquired a taste for natural history which dominated his life. He received his early education from private tutors and in 1829 entered
Returning to his home at Cracombe House, near
After his return in 1836 Strickland brought before the Geological Society several papers on the geology of the districts he had visited in southern Europe and Asia. He also described in detail the "drift deposits in the counties of Worcester and Warwick, drawing particular attention to the fluviatile deposits of Cropthorne in which remains of
He was one of the founders of the Ray Society, suggested in 1843 and established in 1844, the object being the publication of works on natural history which could not be undertaken by scientific societies or by publishers. For this society Strickland corrected, enlarged and edited the manuscript of Agassiz for the Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848). In 1845 he edited with J. Buckman a second and enlarged edition of Murchison's Outline of the Geology of the neighbourhood of Cheltenham. In 1846 he settled at Oxford, and two years later he issued in conjunction with Alexander Gordon Melville a work on The Dodo and its kindred (1848).[2][5]
In 1850 he was appointed deputy reader in geology at Oxford during the illness of Buckland, and in 1852 he was elected Fellow of the
His Ornithological Synonyms was published in 1855. His collection of 6,000 birds went to Cambridge in 1867. While travelling in 1835 he discovered the olive-tree warbler on the island of Zante, and the cinereous bunting in the vicinity of İzmir in western Turkey.
His name was honoured in the name of a bird endemic to N. Borneo,
References
- ^ Boulger, George Simonds (1904). "Strickland, Hugh Edwin". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 55. Vol. 55. pp. 50–52.
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Jackson, Christine; Davis, Peter (2001). Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History. A&C Black. pp. 45–46.
- ^ Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1843). "Report of a Committee 'appointed to consider the rules by which the nomenclature of zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent basis'". Report of the Twelfth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Held at Manchester in June 1842. Vol. 12. London: John Murray. pp. 105–121.
- ^ Jardine, William (1858). Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, M.A. London: John van Voorst.
- ISSN 0044-0604.
- ^ "Three Men and a Bird". Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol.86, Part 1, pp.113-119 (June 2013).
- ^ Rubel, M. (1977), Evolution of the genus Stricklandia (Pentamerida, Brach.) in the Llandovery of Estonia, ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituut, Kaljo, D. (ed). Facies and fauna of the Baltic Silurian, pp. 193–212
- ISBN 978-0-00-810466-5) p. 233
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Strickland, Hugh Edwin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1023. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the