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Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin FRS (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.

Osbert Salvin
FRS

(1835-02-25)25 February 1835

Finchley, England

1 June 1898(1898-06-01) (aged 63)

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

naturalist

Godman-Salvin Medal

Caroline Octavia Maitland

Family[edit]

In 1863, he married Caroline Octavia Maitland in Loughton, Essex. They had three daughters, Sybil Maitland Salvin (born 1867), who married Edmund Leveson Calverley in 1893, Heloise Salvin (born 1875) and Viola Salvin (born 1878). Heloise Salvin married biologist John Edmund Sharrock Moore.[5] Osbert's grandson is Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, a Theravada Buddhist monk and translator of Pali literature; he was originally also named Osbert after his grandfather.

Fisher, Clemency Thorne (2004). . Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24586. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

"Salvin, Osbert (1835–1898), naturalist"

Mullens and Swann – A Bibliography of British Ornithology

Papavero, Nelson; Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio (2003). "Contributions to a history of Mexican dipterology.– Part 2. The Biologia Centrali-Americana". Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 88: 143–232.

[1]

Woodward, Bernard Barham (1901). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

"Salvin, Osbert" 

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