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BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Catesby has received more than 89,202 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mark Catesby is the 853rd most popular biologist (down from 788th in 2019), the 4,445th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,334th in 2019) and the 137th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mark Catesby ranks 853 out of 841Before him are Joseph Barcroft, Jules Pierre Rambur, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, Robert Ridgway, Charles Horton Peck, and Janet Rowley. After him are William Beebe, Gilbert White, George Engelmann, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Joshua Brookes, and Alister Hardy.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 4,445 out of 7,765Before him are Sam Houser (1972), Carol Cleveland (1942), Tommy Docherty (1928), Margaret Archer (1943), Ran Laurie (1915), and Tony Rolt (1918). After him are Steve McClaren (1961), Tommy Lawton (1919), Gilbert White (1720), Martin Whitmarsh (1958), Mary Adela Blagg (1858), and David Storey (1933).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Mark Catesby ranks 137Before him are William T. Stearn (1911), Keith Campbell (1954), Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844), Louis Fraser (1810), Prideaux John Selby (1788), and Joseph Barcroft (1872). After him are Gilbert White (1720), Alister Hardy (1896), George Montagu (1751), David Douglas (1799), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), and Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854).