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    Hugh Cuming (14 February 1791 – 10 August 1865) was an English collector who was interested in natural history, particularly in conchology and botany...
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  • cricketer Frederick Cuming (artist), British painter Geoffrey Cuming (1917—1988), English priest, liturgist, and historian Hugh Cuming (1791 – 1865), English...
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    sister to the monkeys rather than the lemurs, also following findings of Hugh Cuming 80 years earlier and Linnaeus 160 years earlier. For Linnaeus, this ensemble...
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    tropical moist montane forest. The species was named after the collector Hugh Cuming. It has a brown back and a blue-grey front. It has bare vermillion skin...
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    Shell-Collector's Pilot, as well as The Linnæan System of Conchology. Hugh Cuming (1791–1865) is famous for his huge collection and numerous discoveries...
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    January to May and August to September. The epithet cumingiana honours Hugh Cuming and platyphylla means "flat- or wide-leaved". Melaleuca cajuputi subsp...
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    a British conchologist, in 1835. The type specimen was collected by Hugh Cuming. Fossil evidence suggests that this species may be as old as 2.5 million...
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    Descriptions of new species of the Genus Conus, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853(21): 116–119...
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    entomological cases arranged by a rival. The huge collection of the conchologist Hugh Cuming was acquired by the museum, and Gray's own wife had carried the open...
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    specimens were found during an expedition in 1991. During the expedition of Hugh Cuming in 1827 and the 1922 Whitney South Sea Expedition, Lepturus grass was...
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