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Edward Blyth

1810 - 1873

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Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849. He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens from A.O. Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe among others. His Natural History of the Cranes was published posthumously in 1881. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Blyth is the 334th most popular biologist (up from 501st in 2019), the 1,777th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,538th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Blyth ranks 334 out of 1,097Before him are Johann Reinhold Forster, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Hermann Burmeister, Charles M. Rice, Patrick Geddes, and Jérôme Lejeune. After him are Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Otto Friedrich Müller, Brian Kobilka, Valerius Cordus, Phillip Allen Sharp, and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Edward Blyth ranks 32Before him are Francesco Maria Piave, Constant Troyon, Ferenc Erkel, Jules Perrot, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, and Ole Bull. After him are George Robert Waterhouse, Pierre Edmond Boissier, Hans Christian Lumbye, Wilhelm Marstrand, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, and Oliver Winchester. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Blyth ranks 31Before him are Viktor Hartmann, Muhammad IV of Morocco, Friedrich Wieck, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Giovanni Battista Donati, and Johns Hopkins. After him are Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Francis Garnier, Urbano Rattazzi, Wilhelm Marstrand, Tekle Giyorgis II, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 1,777 out of 8,785Before him are John Latham (1740), John Hunter (1728), Paul McGrath (1959), Rosamund Pike (1979), Philip Sidney (1554), and Paul Scofield (1922). After him are Robert Stevenson (1905), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Vera Lynn (1917), Robert Pattinson (1986), Oliver Hart (1948), and Nora Stanton Barney (1883).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 55Before him are George Bentham (1800), Edward Turner Bennett (1797), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), John Gurdon (1933), Ian Wilmut (1944), and Patrick Geddes (1854). After him are George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), David Douglas (1799), John Maynard Smith (1920), and Samuel Frederick Gray (1766).