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Osbert Salvin

1835 - 1898

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Osbert Salvin (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52-volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osbert Salvin is the 833rd most popular biologist (down from 722nd in 2019), the 3,750th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,516th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Osbert Salvin ranks 833 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Hardwicke, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Charles Wallace Richmond, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Gerard, and Alfred Cogniaux. After him are Michael Sars, Robert Collett, Richard Spruce, René Dubos, Warwick Estevam Kerr, and David Keilin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Osbert Salvin ranks 73. Before him are Ramón Barros Luco, Benjamin Briggs, Tommaso Salvadori, Archibald Geikie, Kārlis Baumanis, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. After him are Alexander Litovchenko, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Antanas Baranauskas, Gregorio María Aguirre y García, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, and Kirkpatrick Macmillan. Among people deceased in 1898, Osbert Salvin ranks 66. Before him are Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Johan Lange, Maria Katharina Kasper, James Hall, and Félix María Zuloaga. After him are Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Adolfo Farsari, Wilford Woodruff, Ángel Ganivet, Karl Knies, and Luiza Pesjak.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Osbert Salvin ranks 3,751 out of 8,785. Before him are Quentin Crisp (1908), Mary Toft (1703), Peter McParland (1934), John Gerard (1545), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Ronald Lacey (1935). After him are Davy Jones (1945), Henri Alleg (1921), Rupert Graves (1963), John Negroponte (1939), John Wilbye (1574), and John Julius Norwich (1929).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Osbert Salvin ranks 123. Before him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), William Thomas Blanford (1832), Herbert Giles (1845), John Abbot (1751), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), and John Gerard (1545). After him are William Kirby (1759), John Hutton Balfour (1808), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Everard Home (1756), and William Sherard (1659).

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