Charles Davies Sherborn
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Charles Davies Sherborn
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Charles Davies Sherborn was an English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist. His magnum opus was the compilation of the Index Animalium, an 11-volume, 9,000-page work that catalogued the 444,000 names of every living and extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850. This work is considered the bibliographic foundation for zoological nomenclature. In addition, Sherborn authored almost 200 books, papers, and catalogs on a wide variety topics in natural history. He made important contribu
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English bibliographer (1861–1942)
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