Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer’s Club
Charles Davies Sherborn was an indexer. And he followed a long line of indexers. And a longer line of indexers followed him. They/we are all members o...
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Gordon McOuat: Naming and Necessity: Sherborn’s Context: Cataloguing Nature
By the late 19th Century, storms plaguing early Victorian systematics and nomenclature seemed to have abated. Vociferous disputes over radical renamin...
Edward Dickinson– Reinforcing the foundations: Filling in the bibliographic gaps in the historical legacy
Ornithological nomenclature is based on the bibliographic legacy from Charles Davies Sherborn, working in the Natural History Museum, London, and from...
What's in a name? Attenborough & Fortey on animals
With his delight and enthusiasm for biodiversity, Sir David shares some of his favourite encounters with animals. Prof. Fortey explains why scientific...
F. Christian Thompson and Thomas Pape Systema Dipterorum: Sherborn’s critical influence in getting information control over a megadiverse group
The order Diptera (Insecta), flies, is a megadiverse group, representing some 15% or more of the known species of organisms. Scientific names are tags...