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Alexander Whyte

Alexander Whyte
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Alexander Whyte est un naturaliste et un explorateur britannique, né en 1834 et mort en 1905.

Biographie

Ce membre de la Société linnéenne de Londres est le naturaliste attaché au territoire du Nyasaland (aujourd’hui Malawi). Il y réalise une importante collection sous la direction de Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927). Les plantes qu’il récolte sont notamment utilisées par James Britten (1846-1924) et Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864-1949) dans The Plants of Milanji, Nyasa-Land, collected by Mr. A. Whyte ... and described by Messrs. Britten, E. G. Baker, etc. (1894) et les mammifères sont décrits par Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929) dans On the mammals obtained by Mr. A Whyte in Nyasaland, and presented to the British Museum by Sir H.H. Johnston (1897). Il récolte également 430 spécimens d’oiseaux appartenant à 134 espèces dont 12 nouvelles pour la science.

Source

  • (en) Bo Beolens et Michael Watkins, Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate, New Haven et Londres, Yale University Press, 2003, 400 p. (ISBN 0-300-10359-X) .
  • Maurice Boubier, L’Évolution de l’ornithologie, Paris, Alcan, coll. « Nouvelle collection scientifique », 1925, ii + 308 p. 

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