Edward Blyth: differenze tra le versioni

Blyth nacque a Londra nel 1810. Nel [[1841]] si recò in India per diventare il curatore del museo della Società Reale Asiatica del Bengala. Si occupò di aggiornare i cataloghi del museo pubblicando un ''Catalogo degli uccelli della Società Asiatica'' nel [[1849]]. Gli fu impossibile effettuare di persona le ricerche sul campo, ma ricevette e descrisse specie di [[aves|uccelli]] da [[Allan Octavian Hume|Hume]], [[Samuel Tickell|Tickell]], [[Robert Swinhoe|Swinhoe]] ed altri. Rimase curatore fino al [[1862]] quando la malattia lo costrinse a tornare in [[Inghilterra]]. La sua ''Storia naturale delle [[gruidae|gru]]'' venne pubblicata nel [[1882]].

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:''What think you of Wallace’s paper in the Ann. N. Hist.? Good! Upon the whole! Wallace has, I think, put the matter well; and according to his theory, the various domestic races of animals have been fairly developed into species. A trump of a fact for friend Wallace to have hit upon!''{{ref|Shermer}}

 

:''However reciprocal...may appear the relations of the preyer and the prey, a little reflection on the observed facts suffices to intimate that the relative adaptations of the former only are special, those of latter being comparatively vague and general; indicating that there having ben a superabundance which might serve as nutriment, in the first instance, and which, in many cases, was unattainable by ordinary means, particular species have therefore been so organized (that is to say, modified upon some more or less general ''type'' or plan of structure,) to avail themselves of the supply.''{{ref|BL1}}

 

 

Blyth edited the section on 'Mammalia, Birds, and Reptiles' in the English edition of [[Cuvier]]'s ''Animal Kingdom'' published in 1840, inserting many observations, corrections, and references of his own.

 

# {{note|MNHv8-10}}Blyth, E., The Magazine of Natural History Volumes 8, 9 and 10, 1835–1837. Sourced from {{ref|EISELEY}}, Appendices.

# {{note|MNHp40}}"[http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/BLYT1835.htm An Attempt to Classify the "Varieties" of Animals, with Observations on the Marked Seasonal and Other Changes Which Naturally Take Place in Various British Species, and Which Do Not Constitute Varieties]" by Edward Blyth (1835) ''Magazine of Natural History'' Volume 8 pages 40-53.