1804 in birding and ornithology
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The year 1804 in birding and ornithology.
Events
[edit]- Jean Hermann ( Johannis Hermann) published Observationes Zoologicae : quibus novae complures, aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur Argentorati : Amandum Koenig[1]
- Pope Pius VII established Gabinetto di Zoologia dell'Università Pontificia a natural history museum in Rome.
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière commenced in 1749, completed, sixteen years after his death. It was translated into many European languages and in various forms as Suites à Buffon. Nine of the volumes are devoted to birds.
- Frédéric Cuvier begins Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des differens Êtres de la Nature ...Par plusiers Professors du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle et des autres principales Écoles de Paris. Strasbourg (Levrault)Paris (Le Normant) 1804, 1805–1806 suspended until 1816
Ornithologists
[edit]Births
[edit]- Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884)
References
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