George Newbold Lawrence
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George Newbold Lawrence (October 20, 1806 – January 17, 1895) was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.[1]
Lawrence conducted Pacific bird surveys for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men co-authored Birds of North America in 1860.
He sold his collection of 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of Natural History in 1887.[2]
Fellow ornithologists honored him by naming one bird genus and 20 species after him,[1] including both the scientific and common name of the Lawrence's Goldfinch, first described by Cassin in 1852.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Elliot, D. G. (January 1896). "In Memorium: George Newbold Lawrence". The Auk 13 (1): 1–10. http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v013n01/p0001-p0010.pdf.
- ^ Mears, Barbara; Mears, Richard (1992). Audubon to Xántus: The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names. London, UK: Academic Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-12-487423-7.
- ^ Coues, Elliott (1882). The Coues Check List of North American Birds. Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat. p. 50. http://books.google.com/books?id=GUsbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50.
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