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Osbert Salvin

1835–98

Ornithologist and entomologist. Undertook natural history explorations in North Africa, 1857, and Central America, 1857–60, 1861–3, 1873–4. Strickland Curator of ornithology, University of Cambridge, 1874–82. FRS 1873.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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