Edward Blyth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Blyth

English zoologist and pharmacist

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1810

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1873

Profession: zoologist, curator, ornithologist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810.
In 1841 he travelled to India to become the curator of the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.
He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849.
He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens from A.O.
Hume, Samuel Tickell, Robert Swinhoe and others.
He remained as curator until 1862, when ill-health forced his return to England.
His Natural History of the Cranes was published posthumously in 1881.Avian species bearing his name include Blyth's hornbill, Blyth's leaf warbler, Blyth's hawk-eagle, Blyth's olive bulbul, Blyth's parakeet, Blyth's frogmouth, Blyth's reed warbler, Blyth's rosefinch, Blyth's shrike-babbler, Blyth's tragopan, Blyth's pipit and Blyth's kingfisher.
Reptilian species and a genus bearing his name include Blythia reticulata, Eumeces blythianus, and Rhinophis blythii.