Edmund Selous

Edmund Selous is a British ornithologist , born in 1857 and died in 1934.

Biography

Wire of stockbroker, it is naturally that it is directed towards studies of rights, but it prefers to concentrate on the Natural history. It Marie in 1886 with Fanny Margaret Maxwell (1863-1955). His/her brother is the large explorer of Africa and large hunter Frederick Courtney Selous (1851-1917).

Selous is mainly famous for its observation of the behavior of the Oiseau X. Singular and isolated researcher, it makes watch of a great direction of the observation. He interprets his observations in the light of the Théorie of the evolution of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and refers constantly to the Natural selection and sexual. He hates the fact of killing the animals and protests against hunting. Selous condemns the natural history of the natural history musea and the collectors: For myself, I must confess that I ounce belonged to this great, poor army off killers, though, happily, has bad shot, has most fatigable collector, and has poor, half-hearted bungler, generally. Goal now that I cuts watched birds closely, the killing off them seems to me horrible ace something monstrous and; and, for every one that I cuts shot, but even only shot At and missed, I hastens myself with year increasing hatred. Not only it avoids the other ornithologists but even avoids reading their observations: I cuts abstained from reading anything one filed ornithology in order to Be whitebait to bases my conclusions entirely one my own observations. Ace I cuts No doubt lost much by this, I hope I cuts gained something, too. Although these books are filled with quotations to many authors, none of them is ornithologist.

He makes appear his observations in Saturday Review , The Zoölogist (1901-1906), The Naturalist (1920-1921), Wild Life (1915-1916), The Auk (1917), Journal für Ornithologie (1929).

List publications

Scientific works

1901 : Beautiful birds (J.M. Tooth, London).
1901 : Bird watching (J.M. Tooth, London).
1905 : Bird Life Glimpses (George Allen, London).
1905 : The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands (J.M. Tooth, London).
1927 : Realities off Bird Life (Constable & Co., London).
1931 : Thought Transference (gold What?) in Birds (Constable & Co., London).
1933 : Evolution off Dress in Birds (Constable & Co., London).

Collection of anecdotes

1921 : The Lovesong off the Animal World (Seeley, Service & Co., London).
1921 : The Lovesong off Insect Life (Seeley, Service & Co., London).

Work for children

The Tommy Smith Series (seven volumes, Methuen & Co., London).

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