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English naturalist and explorer
John Cranch (1785–1816) was an
English
naturalist and
explorer .
[1]
Explorer
John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends
[2] - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain
James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the
River Congo , and died there.
[3]
Legacy
His friend
William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition.
[3] These include for example the marine
isopod crustacean
Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818.
[4]
Notes
^
James Hingston Tuckey ;
Christen Smith (1818).
Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N.: to which is added, The journal of Professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing The natural history of that part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows . Murray. pp. lxxi–lxxviii. Retrieved 17 February 2013 .
^ Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach . London: The Ray Society.
ISBN
978-0-9-03874-35-9 .
^
a
b David M. Damkaer (2002).
"Adding pages" . The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1 . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240.
American Philosophical Society . pp. 131–155.
ISBN
978-0-87169-240-5 .
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"Cirolana cranchi Leach, 1818" . WorMS .
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