Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland is a ornithologist and a British geologist , born the March 2nd 1811 with Righton in the east of the Yorkshire and dead the September 14th 1853.
He is the grandson of Sir George Strickland (1729-1808), 5th baronnet of Boynton, which very early inculcates to him the taste of the Natural history.
He makes his studies with the Oriel College of Oxford and follows the course of Anatomie of John Kidd (1775-1851) and of Géologie of William Buckland (1784-1856). He impassions himself then for the Zoologie and geology. He obtains a B.A. in 1831 and a M.A. in 1832.
He turns over at his place to Cracombe House, close to Tewkesbury, where he starts to study the geology of the valley of Evesham, the area of the south of the Worcestershire, along the valley Avon, around the town of Evesham. He communicates off his observations with the Geological Society London (1833 - 1834). He also devotes himself to the Ornithologie.
Via Sir Roderick Murchison (1792-1871), it meets William John Hamilton (1805-1867) and accompanies it in 1835 in a voyage in Asia Mineure, Thrace and on the island of Zante.
After its return, Strickland makes appear several articles on the geology of the areas which he visited. It continues to make research on the geology of England and publishes many articles, only or with Murchison.
He is also the author of memories on the birds which he off presents near the Zoological Society London, the Annals and Magazine off Natural History and the British Association for the Advancement off Science. He takes part, in 1842, with the constitution of a committee charged to fix the rules of the Taxinomie in zoology.
He corrects, increases and makes appear the manuscript of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) entitled Bibliographia Zoologiae and Geologiae (1848). In 1845, it publishes with James Buckman (1818-1884) an 2nd edition, enriched, work of Murchison Outline off the Geology off the neighborhood off Cheltenham . In 1846, it settles with Oxford and makes appear two years later, with Alexander Gordon Melville (1819-1901), a work on The Dodo and its kindred (1848).
He becomes member in 1852 of the Royal Society. The following year, whereas he studied specimens on the side of a way of railroad, he is killed by an express train whereas he took a step on side to avoid a goods train.
Its Ornithological Synonyms appears in 1855. Its collection of 6.000 Oiseau X is preserved today at the Université of Cambridge.
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