Richard Bowdler Sharpe

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Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22. listopadu 1847 Londýn - 25. prosince 1909) byl anglický zoolog a ornitolog.

Životopis

Sharpe studoval v Brightonu, Peterborough a Loughborough. Ve věku 16 let začal pracovat pro Smith & Sons v Londýně. +more Od roku 1864 připravoval svou první ornitologickou knihu Monograph of the Kingfishers (1868-1871).

Na návrh Osberta Salvina a Philipa Lutley Sclatera se stal v roce 1867 knihovníkem Zoological Society of London. Po smrti Graye byl jmenován v roce 1872 starším asistentem Britského muzea a převzal tamní ornitologickou sbírku. +more V roce 1892 založil British Ornithologists' Club.

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Dílo

Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum. (1874). +more * Catalogue of the Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British museum. (1875). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Coliomorphae. (1877). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt. I. (1879). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt. III-[IV]. (1881-83). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt. I. (1885). * A monograph of the Hirundinidae, (1894). * A Monograph of The Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers (1868 - 1871). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt. III. (1888). * Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Sturniformes. (1890). * Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British museum. Coraciae. (1892). * Catalogue of the Fulicariae. and Alectorides. in the collection of the British museum. (1894). * Catalogue of the Limicolae in the collection of the British museum. (1896). * Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British museum. (1898).