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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Blyth has received more than 112,240 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edward Blyth is the 671st most popular biologist (down from 494th in 2019), the 3,401st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,536th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edward Blyth ranks 671 out of 841Before him are Andrew Smith, Heinrich Zollinger, Edward Newton, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Alfred G. Knudson, and David Ho. After him are Hans von Berlepsch, Marie-Anne Libert, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Ernst Hartert, and Émile Oustalet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Edward Blyth ranks 73Before him are Jules Malou, Robert Mallet, Johann Löwenthal, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, and Baron Ignaz von Plener. After him are Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Nicolae Golescu, Little Crow, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Carl Mayet, and Alphonso Taft. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Blyth ranks 58Before him are Francis Marrash, Fyodor Vasilyev, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Salmon P. Chase, Odilon Barrot, and Alexei Fedchenko. After him are Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Per Georg Scheutz, Robert McClure, Jules Verreaux, and Johann Jakob Kaup.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 3,401 out of 7,765Before him are Richard Wilson (1936), R. M. Hare (1919), William Huskisson (1770), David Marshall Lang (1924), Gabrielle Anwar (1970), and Henry of Huntingdon (1080). After him are Asa Butterfield (1997), Clifford Curzon (1907), Suze Randall (1946), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Justin Welby (1956), and Richard Bentley (1662).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Blyth ranks 87Before him are Everard Home (1756), William John Burchell (1781), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Andrew Smith (1797), and Edward Newton (1832). After him are John Richardson (1787), William Hemsley (1843), William Sherard (1659), David Don (1799), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), and Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809).