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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. & Rosanne Walker updated 2024-04-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000776b.htm person Sharpe Richard Bowdler FLS FZS MBOU AACR2 22 November 1847 25 December 1909 Ornithologist Richard Sharpe was Assistant Keeper of the Vertebrate Section of the British Museum's Zoology Department from 1895-1909. He was also a distinguished international founding member of the Australian Ornithologists' Union. Sharpe had a particular interest in classification and phylogeny and its relation to evolution and was co-author of the series Birds of Europe and the massive Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Sharpe founded the British Ornithologists' Club in 1892 to allow for more informal discussion and regular meetings than the British Ornithologists' Union offered and edited its Bulletin for many years. He received a Doctor of Laws honoris causa (Hon LLD) from the University of Aberdeen. 1867 1872 Career position - Librarian to the Zoological Society 1872 1895 Career position - Senior Assistant in the Department of Zoology, British Museum 1874 1898 Career position - Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum published (twenty seven volumes) 1892 1892 Career position - Founder of the British Ornithologists' Club 1895 1909 Career position - Assistant Keeper of the Vertebrate Section of the Zoology Department Australasian Ornithologists' Union (1901 - 1910)

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 Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909)

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 'Sharpe, Richard Bowdler', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sharpe, Richard Bowdler Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Edited Book: Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the Southern Cross Sharpe, R. Bowdler; and Bell, F. Jeffrey Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the <span style="font-style:italic">Southern Cross</span> London British Museum (Natural History) 1902 Book: Analytical index to the works of the late John Gould, F.R.S., with a biographical memoir and portrait Sharpe, R. B. Analytical index to the works of the late John Gould, F.R.S., with a biographical memoir and portrait London Henry Sotheran 1893 Book: The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Robin, Libby The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2001 Gregory Macalister Mathews - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Gregory Macalister Mathews - Records MS 1465 1900 - 1949 Manuscript and typescript material relating to Mathews's published and projected work including photographs and original drawings, offprints of articles, press-cutting books 1910-43 and photographs; correspondence 1928-35, 1929, and personal letters and papers; overall dates c1900-49. Also includes some papers of Roy Bell, T. H. Bowyer-Bower, Sylvester Diggles, John Gould, G. R. Gray, Tome Iredale, Richard Bowdler Sharpe and C. J. Temminck. 4.1 m