George Ernest Shelley
See also: Shelley
The captain George Ernest Shelley is a soldier, a geologist and a British ornithologist , born in 1840 and dead the November 29th 1910 with London.
He is the nephew of the famous poetess Mary Shelley (1797-1851).
He makes his studies with the College of Versailles and joined, in 1863, the pomegranates of the guard. He obtains a few years later the rank of captain.
He is charged by the government with South Africa with a geological mission of research. He will also explore the Ethiopia.
He makes appear in 1874, Catalog off the Picariæ in the Collection off the British Museum. Scansores and Coccyges containing the families Indicatoridæ, Capitonidæ, Cuculidæ, and Musophagidæ , 1876 - 1877, has Monograph off the Cinnyridæ, gold Family off Sun Birds , 1878, has off Handbook to the Birds Egypt , 1880, has Monograph off the Nectariniidae . Its principal work is The birds off Africa in five volumes of 1896 with 1912, of which the last part appears posthumously thanks to the care of William Lutley Sclater (1863-1944).
An attack, which paralyzes it in 1906, puts an end to its research. Its collection of 7.235 specimens whose 37 standard S is preserved today at the British Museum.
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