Joshua Brookes
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' Joshua Brookes (24 November 1761 – 10 January 1833) was a British anatomist and naturalist.
He studied under John Hunter in London. He became a teacher of anatomy in London, and the founder of the Brookesian Museum of Comparative Anatomy.This private museum is described in his 1830 catalogue Museum Brookesianum Embracing an Almost Endless Assemblage of Every Species of Anatomical, Pathological, Obstetrical, and Zootomical Preparations, as wellas Subjects in Natural History He became a member of the Royal Society in 1819. He was the first to place the Cheetah in its own genus, which he established in 1828 as Acinonyx.
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- Dobson, J. (1952) Eighteenth Century Anatomists: Joshua Brookes, Practitioner, 180-4.
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