Richard Lydekker (July 25, 1849 - April 16, 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
Lydekker was born in London, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the Natural Science tripos (1872).[1] In 1874 he joined the Geological Survey of India and made studies of the vertebrate paleontology of northern India (especially Kashmir). He was responsible for the cataloguing of the fossil mammals, reptiles and birds in the Natural History Museum. His books included A Manual of Palaeontology (with Henry Alleyne Nicholson, 1889) and The Wild Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet.
Lydekker was also influential in the science of biogeography. In 1895 he delineated the biogeographical boundary through Indonesia, known as Lydekker's Line, that separates Wallacea on the west from Australia-New Guinea on the east.
Lydekker wrote the Royal Natural History London, Frederick Warne, 1893-94 a six volume popular work.
See also
References
- ^ Lydekker, Richard in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
External links
Media related to Richard Lydekker at Wikimedia Commons- Partial bibliography at DinoData
- Lydekkers publications about rhinos
- map of Wallace's, Weber's and Lydekker's lines
- BDH Online versions of some Richard Lydekker publications.
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