Edgar Leopold Layard CMG FZS MBOU, (23 July 1824 – 1 January 1900) was a British diplomat and a naturalist mainly interested in ornithology and to a lesser...
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naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard; his first wife, Barbara Anne Calthrop, whom he married in 1845, is commemorated in the specific epithet. Layard's parakeet...
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physician Edgar Leopold Layard (1824–1900), British ornithologist John Layard (1891–1974), English anthropologist and psychologist Nina Frances Layard (1853–1935)...
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Strap-toothed whale (redirect from Layard's beaked whale)
(2,900 lb). The common and scientific name was given in honor of Edgar Leopold Layard, the curator of the South African Museum, who prepared drawings of...
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solicitor and close friend of Benjamin Disraeli in the 1820s and 1830s. Edgar Leopold Layard the ornithologist was his brother. On 9 March 1869, at St. George's...
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White-faced starling (category Taxa named by Edgar Leopold Layard)
starling was formally described in 1854 by the English naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard under the binomial name Heterornis albofrontata. This species was...
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Drakensberg rockjumper (category Taxa named by Edgar Leopold Layard)
nestlings and fledglings. Chaetops aurantius was described in 1867 by Edgar Leopold Layard in his book The birds of South Africa. He placed the genus Chaetops...
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New Caledonian owlet-nightjar (category Taxa named by Edgar Leopold Layard)
resident. It was presented to M.Saves who in turn handed it over to Edgar Leopold Layard. Eventually the specimen was purchased by the Liverpool Museum in...
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and ideas from Edward Blyth in India, who put him in contact with Edgar Leopold Layard in South Africa. At the suggestion of William Yarrell, Darwin began...
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members of the extended Layard family of Ceylon included archaeologist Austen Henry Layard and his brother Edgar Leopold Layard. Dowbiggin and her husband...
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