Richard Bowdler Sharpe 526069 224600230 2008-07-09T16:29:24Z Entj 7448263 [[Image:RBSharpe.jpg|thumb|left]] '''Richard Bowdler Sharpe''' ([[22 November]] [[1847]] - [[25 December]] [[1909]]) was an [[England|English]] [[zoologist]]. Sharpe was born in [[London]] and studied at [[Brighton]], [[Peterborough]] and [[Loughborough]]. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London. In 1864 he commenced his first ornithological work, the ''Monograph of the Kingfishers'' (1868-71). In 1867 Sharpe was given the post of librarian of the [[Zoological Society]], on the recommendation of [[Osbert Salvin]] and [[Philip Sclater]]. On the death of [[George Robert Gray]] in 1872 he joined the [[British Museum]] as a Senior Assistant in the Department of Zoology, taking charge of the bird collection. He became Assistant Keeper in 1895, remaining there until his death from [[pneumonia]]. Sharpe founded the [[British Ornithologists' Club]] in 1892 and edited its bulletin. He wrote thirteen and a half of the 27 volumes of the ''Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum'' (1874-1898). ==Publications== *''Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum.'' (1874). *''Catalogue of the Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British museum.'' (1875). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Coliomorphae...'' (1877). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.I...'' (1879). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.III-[IV]...'' (1881-83). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.I...'' (1885). *''A monograph of the Hirundinidae'', (1894). *''A Monograph of The Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers'' (1868 - 1871). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.III...'' (1888). *''Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Sturniformes...'' (1890). *''Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British museum. Coraciae...'' (1892). *''Catalogue of the Fulicariae... and Alectorides... in the collection of the British museum.'' (1894). *''Catalogue of the Limicolae in the collection of the British museum.'' (1896). *''Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British museum''. (1898). ==References== [[Image:Sharpe Richard Browdler 1847-1909.jpg|thumb|right|Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] *Mullens and Swann - ''A Bibliography of British Ornithology'' (1917) ==External links== * [http://www.bowdlers.com/people/richard_bowdler_sharpe.htm "Biography" at Genealogy and History of the Bowdler Family] * [http://www.audubon.co.uk/SharpeGallery1.htm Images from the Monograph of The Alcedinidae] * [http://www.archive.org/download/wondersofbirdwor00shariala/wondersofbirdwor00shariala.pdf Wonders of the bird world] * [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktobirdso01sharrich A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain (Volume 1)] * [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktobirdso02sharrich A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain (Volume 2)] * [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktobirdso03sharrich A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain (Volume 3)] * [http://www.archive.org/details/handbooktobirdso04sharrich A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain (Volume 4)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharpe}} [[Category:1847 births]] [[Category:1909 deaths]] [[Category:English ornithologists]] [[Category:Employees of the Natural History Museum]] [[Category:Fellows of the Zoological Society of London]] [[de:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] [[es:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] [[fr:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] [[it:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] [[lb:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]] [[fi:Richard Bowdler Sharpe]]