Artist:
Captain Thomas Brown (1785 - 1862)
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Superb finely hand coloured engraving of the Scaly Breasted lorikeet. Modern binomial name: Trichoglossus chlorolepidotusFirst described: Kuhl 1820Distribution: NT, QLD, NSW, VIC
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Superb finely hand coloured engraving of the Scaly Breasted lorikeet.
Modern binomial name: Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus
First described: Kuhl 1820
Distribution: NT, QLD, NSW, VIC
Biography:
Captain Thomas Brown (1785-1862)
Brown was a British naturalist born in Perth, Scotland and educated at the Edinburgh High School. After joining the Forfar and Kineardine Militia at the age of twenty, he was raised to rank of Captain in 1811. While quartered in Manchester, he became interested in nature. He purchased the Fifeshire flax mill after his regiment was disbanded. The mill burned down before he had the opportunity to insure it. Also a malacologist (studying mollusks), he began to write books about nature to earn a living. For twenty-two years beginning in 1840, he was curator of the Manchester Museum. Additionally, he became a fellow of the Linnean Society, a member of the Wernerian, Kirwanian, and Phrenological Societies.
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