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Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield was an American medical doctor and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company Museum in London.
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science · American naturalist and physician (1773–1859) · curator · zoologist · ornithologist · botanist · entomologist · physician · botanical collector · scientific collector · also Thomas Horsfield, Horsf., Horsfield, Horsfield, T
Born 12 May 1773 · Died 24 July 1859 · Q507763
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1859· 1 entry
Died 1859-07-24.
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1838· 1 entry
Became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands; when that became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1851, he joined as foreign member
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1833· 1 entry
Was a founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London
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1828· 1 entry
Was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1819· 1 entry
Was forced to leave the island due to ill health, and returned to London on board the Lady Raffles
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1816· 1 entry
Java was restored to the Dutch and Horsfield moved west to Sumatra
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1811· 1 entry
And Horsfield began to collect natural history specimens on behalf of the governor and friend Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
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1801· 1 entry
Applied to be a surgeon with the Dutch Colonial Army in Batavia
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1773· 1 entry
Born 1773-05-12.
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