[Taxacom] re Sale: immortal names

[Michael Heads]

Thomas Hardwicke was a famous soldier/naturalist resident in India
1777-1823. He has a Wikipedia page.



On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:28 PM, rch <rch at skynet.be> wrote:

>
>     I'm curious to know the origin of hardwickii as in
>         Eublepharis hardwickii
>         Saara hardwickii
>         Gallinago hardwickii
>         Kerivoula hardwickii
>         ...
>
>     Looks like said  Hardwick(e) was around
>     in the 1820s [1] but we have not managed
>     to find out anything more about him/her.
>
>     Any information would be much appreciated by
>     the family genealogist.
>
>     Richard Hardwick
>
> [1] e.g.  IUCN Red List
>     http//www.iucnredlist.org/details/10974/0
>     says
>         Scientific Name Kerivoula hardwickii
>         Species Authority (Horsfield, 1824)
>
>     Then AnimalBase search page
>
> http//
> www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/reference?id=6285
>
>     says
>         "Reference summary for Horsfield, T. 1824"
>         Horsfield, T.
>         1824.
>         Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands.
>         pp. [9-479].
>         London. (Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen).
>
>     but after that we drew a blank
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My books:

Craw, R., J. Grehan, M. Heads. 1999. *Panbiogeography: Tracking the history
of life*. Oxford University Press, New York.
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC
<http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC&dq=panbiogeography&source=gbs_navlinks_s>

Heads, M. 2012.* Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of
California Press, Berkeley. www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271968

Heads, M. 2014.* Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. www.cambridge.org/9781107041028