John George Children

John George Children is a chemist, a mineralogist and a British zoologist , born the May 18th 1777 with Ferox Hall, (Tunbridge) and dead on January 1st 1852 with Halstead in the Kent.

After studies with the Queen' S College of Cambridge, it enters as librarian to the department of Antiquities of the British Museum. In 1822, it succeeds William Elford Leach (1790-1836) as responsible for the department of Natural history where it charms the station with William Swainson (1789-1855).

Into 1837, the department is divided into three parts and he inherits the direction of the department of Zoologie, function which he preserves until his retirement and is then replaced by John Edward Gray (1800-1875), its assistant.

Children becomes member of the Royal Society in 1807 and in 1826 is its secretary, then of 1830 with 1837.

Gray dedicates the to him Python of Children ( Antaresia childreni (Gray, 1842)). William Henry Sykes (1790-1872) names a Poisson peninsular India, Silonia childreni (Sykes, 1839). A mineral, the Childrenite, also received its name. His/her daughter, Anna (1799-1871), under her married name Anna Atkins, will carry out the first illustrated book of Cyanotype S.

Children plays a big role in the history of the Conchyliologie (under science of the Coquillage S) while making realize by his/her daughter, Anna Atkins (1799-1871), the illustrations appearing in the translation of the work of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829), under the title of " Lamarck' S generated shells" off; who appears of 1822 off with 1824 in Quarterly Journal Science and who will be republished under the title of Lamarck' S off generated shells translated from the French in 1823 with London. Lamarck, become blind, not having been able to provide illustration for the S which it had created, Children thus provides a type for each one of them. Anna Atkins is also famous for its publications on the Algue S.

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