Thomas Campbell Eyton

Thomas Campbell Eyton ( born September 10, 1809 in Eyton Hall ( Eyton upon the Weald Moors ), † October 25, 1880 ) was a British naturalist.

Life and work

Thomas Campbell Eyton was on her parents' country estate Eyton Hall, near Wellington ( Shropshire ), who was born and was a son of Thomas Eyton. He studied with his friend, Charles Robert Darwin, at the University of Cambridge. After Eyton had inherited the estate in 1855, he built there a large natural history museum. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of Zoological Society of London.

Also Eytons works showed the transition from the art of engraving becoming the lithography in the early 19th century. His A history of the rarer British birds (1836 ), illustrated with woodcuts, appeared as an appendix to Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. In 1838 Eyton published a work on ducks, A monograph on the Anatidae or Duck tribe, which contains six hand- colored lithographs by Edward Lear and numerous monochrome illustrations. Copies of both works, Eytons anatomical study Osteologia avium (1867 ) and their first supplementary volume (1869 ) are present in the Hill Ornithology Collection at Cornell University Library.

Works

  • Osteologia avium. Williams & Norgate, London 1873-75. ( Supplementary Volume 2 to Osteologia avium. )
  • Notes on Scent. Hobson, Wellington 1870.
  • Supplement to Osteologia avium. Wellington, 1869. (1st supplementary volume to Osteologia avium. )
  • A synopsis on the Anatidae or Duck tribe. Hobson, Wellington 1869.
  • A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries. van Voorst, London, 1858.
  • A catalog of the skeletons of birds in his possession. London 1858.
  • Osteologia avium. Hobson, Wellington 1858-67.
  • A catalog of the species of birds in his possession. Hobson, Wellington 1856.
  • The Herd book of Hereford Cattle. London 1846-53.
  • A lecture on artificial manures or condensed. Wellington 1843.
  • A monograph on the Anatidae or Duck tribe. London 1838.
  • A history of the rarer British birds. Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Houlstons, London, 1836.
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