John Abbot

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John Abbot is a Entomologiste and a American ornithologist , born the May 31st or June 1st 1751 with London and died in December 1840 or January 1841 in the county of Bulloch in Georgia.

Large sides of the life of Abbot remain still unknown today. He is the oldest son of James Abbot, acknowledged, and of Ann born Clousinger. His/her father encourages his interest for the Insecte S and the Art. John Abbot studies the drawing and engraving with the engraver Jacob Bonneau (1741-1786). He shows a very great talent of illustrator. He works being studied of his father of 1769 with 1773. A group of naturalists directed by Thickly Drury (1725-1804) and the Royal Society engages Abbot to go to study and collect specimens of Natural history in Virginia.

It remains in Virginia of 1773 with 1775 then settles in Georgia. It receives ground after having been used like volunteer in the war as independence. He saw to worms 1795 as grower. He constructs several whole of illustrations on the birds, undoubtedly 1.300. The majority are preserved in various institutions like the British Library or in Harvard, others were dispersed at the time of an auction in 1980. Its descriptions are influenced by John Latham (1740-1837).

The specimens that it collects, reach for the majority Europe and its collectors, but a certain number of sendings that it makes are lost at sea, which discourages Abbot. This one entrusts the description of the illustrations which it carries out with others. Thus, James Edward Smith (1759-1828), makes appear in 1797, The Natural History off the Rare Lepidopterous Insects off Georgia Collected from Observations by John Abbot (two volumes, 104 boards). Certain drawings are taken again by Boisduval (1799-1879) and John Lawrence LeConte (1825-1883) in their General Histoire and Iconography of the lépidoptères and the caterpillars of septentrional America (1833) without however quoting Abbot. Many other works use its works of which the Natural history of the apterous insects (1837-1847) of Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852), the Supplement to the General Synopsis off Birds (1787-1801), the Index Ornithologicus (1790) and the General History off Birds (1821-1828) of Latham, the American Ornithology (1808-1814) of Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) or has Sketch off the Botany off South-Carolina and Georgia (1821-1824) of Stephen Elliott (1771-1830).

Sources

Keir B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco & Lorne F. Hammond (to dir.) (1997). Biographical dictionary off American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists . Greenwood Close (Westport): xix + 937 p.
Arnold Mallis (1971). American Entomologists . Rutgers University Close (New Brunswick): xvii + 549 p.

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