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Mark Catesby

1683 - 1749

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Mark Catesby (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Catesby is the 945th most popular biologist (down from 915th in 2019), the 4,412th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,500th in 2019) and the 154th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mark Catesby ranks 945 out of 1,097Before him are George Edwards, Shi Zhengli, Walter Buller, Maxine Singer, Maxwell T. Masters, and Outram Bangs. After him are Karl Patterson Schmidt, Jacob Bjerknes, William Yarrell, William Beebe, Félix de Avelar Brotero, and Elizabeth Gertrude Britton.

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Among people born in 1683, Mark Catesby ranks 22Before him are Antoine Pesne, Lorenz Heister, Jonathan Wild, Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Giovanni Poleni, and Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller.  Among people deceased in 1749, Mark Catesby ranks 15Before him are Jan van Huysum, William Jones, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Matthias Bel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and André Cardinal Destouches. After him is Catharine Trotter Cockburn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 4,413 out of 8,785Before him are Toby Stephens (1969), Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932), Graham Gouldman (1946), John Smith (1938), Alec McCowen (1925), and Mark Owen (1972). After him are Sidney Robinson (1876), David Payne (1843), John Loder (1898), Gary Shaw (1961), Mark Blundell (1966), and Carol Cleveland (1942).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 154Before him are G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856), Thomas Thomson (1817), Thomas Pennant (1726), George Edwards (1694), and Maxwell T. Masters (1833). After him are William Yarrell (1784), Francis Willughby (1635), Gilbert White (1720), Robert Morison (1620), Archibald Menzies (1754), and Irene Manton (1904).