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Hugh Edwin Strickland

Hugh Edwin Strickland
Born(1811-03-02)2 March 1811
Died14 September 1853(1853-09-14) (aged 42)
CitizenshipBritain
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
Ornithology
Natural history
Systematics

Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code, that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature.


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