George Newbold Lawrence
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George Newbold Lawrence is a business man and Ornithologue amateur American, born the October 20th 1806 with New York and dead the January 17th 1895 in this same city.
Its family is originating in the Hertfordshire, in Great Britain, and emigrates with the the United States in 1635. The Lawrence young person does not grow very far from the residence of John James Audubon (1785-1851) and attends his children. His/her father directs a prosperous pharmaceutical company that his/her son will begin again. Lawrence gives up the businesses in 1862 to devote itself entirely to the Ornithologie. It directs several forwardings to study the birds of the Pacifique with Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin (1813-1869), with which it has off Co-writing Birds North America in 1858.
It off makes gift of its collection of 8.000 skins of birds to the American Museum Natural History. Lawrence is interested mainly in the tropical birds.
John Cassin baptized the gray Chardonneret ( Carduelis lawrencei ) in its honor.
Source
- Daniel Giraud Elliot (1896). In Memoriam: George Newbold Lawrence , Auk (The) , 13 , 1: 1-10.
- Edward S. Gruson (1972). Words for Birds. In Lexicon off North American Birds with Biographical Notes , Quadrangle Books (New York): xiv + 305 p.
Simple: George Newbold Lawrence
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