Taxacom: Barnes - collector of zoological & natural history specimens in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

[Peter Uetz]

Interestingly, there is another Barnes, Richard Hawksworth Barnes, who was born in Colombo in 1831.
He made a collection of reptiles in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and sent it to the British Museum.
He lived in Kensington, London (1871), and Dorset (1901), according to

Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA
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Barnes' Cat Snake, Boiga barnesi Günther, 1869, was named after him.

Peter