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Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849.
CHARLES DARWIN, EDWARD BLYTH, AND THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION LOREN C. EISELEY Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania CONTENTS PAGE I. Introduction ..... 94 II. Edward Blyth ..... 96 III. Clues to Darwin's knowledge of Blyth ..... 97 IV. Blyth and natural selection ..... 99
Edward Blyth, curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta, had been corresponding with Charles Darwin in England for upwards of a year when he hurriedly
Darwin was not the first to fully describe natural selection; it was a creationist, Edward Blyth, 24 years before Origin of Species. Darwin just popularized an already existing idea and tagged it onto his belief about origins.
Edward Blyth (1810-1873) was an extraordinary naturalist, a per- sistent observer of nature, and a reader of books about zoology.3 He was neither wealthy nor particularly healthy and in 1841 left England for the more salubrious climate of India, where he was offered the position of Curator of the Museum of the Royal Society of Bengal.
Sep 13, 2012 · Born in London on the 23rd of December 1810, Edward Blyth inherited from his father a keen love for nature and a remarkable memory. His father’s death, when Blyth was ten years old, plunged the family into poverty setting the stage for a life of hardship that never ended.
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was a British naturalist who curated the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal for twenty years. He was responsible for gathering much early information on the cryptozoology of India, Template:Myanmar, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands...
Barbara G.Beddall, “Wallace, Darwin, and Edward Blyth: Further Notes on the Development of Evolution Theory”, J. Hist. Biol., 5 (1972), 155, 157. The full text of the part of Blyth's letter that refers to Wallace appears on pp. 155–158.
Edward Blyth (Born::December 23, 1810 – Died::December 27, 1873) was born in London, England and became a well-known zoologist and chemist which brought him wide consideration as one of the founders of Indian zoology and subsequently he became one of the leading zoologist of India.
Edward Blyth, one of the early British zoologist spent twenty-two years in Calcutta as a curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society. His work as a taxonomist and field-observer drew the attention of Charles Darwin followed by exchange of letters. Darwin duly acknowledged contribution of Blyth in his books, particularly in Descent of Man.
