Thomas Horsfield

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botanist entomologist naturalist ornithologist person physician zoologist

Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	botanist → entomologist → naturalist → ornithologist → person → physician → zoologist →
birthDate	1773-05-12 →
birthPlace	Pennsylvania → Philadelphia → United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States →
deathDate	1859-07-24 →
degree	Doctor of Medicine →
educatedAt	University of Pennsylvania →
employer	East India Company →
fieldOfWork	botany → entomology → natural history → ornithology → zoology →
genre	scientific literature →
hasEponym	Horsfield's bronze cuckoo → Horsfield's fruit bat → Horsfield's tarsier → Horsfieldia (plant genus) → Horsfieldia irya → Horsfieldia kingii → Horsfieldia superba → Horsfieldia wallichii →
knownFor	botanical research in Southeast Asia → studies of the fauna of Java → studies of the flora of Java → zoological research in Southeast Asia →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Linnean Society of London → Royal Society →
name	Thomas Horsfield →
notableWork	A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the East-India Company → A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the East-India Company → A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East-India Company → Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands →
occupation	botanist → entomologist → naturalist → ornithologist → physician → zoologist →
positionHeld	keeper of the East India Company Museum →
studied	birds of Java → insects of Java → mammals of Java → plants of Java → reptiles of Java →
workLocation	East India Company Museum → Indonesia → Java → London → Southeast Asia →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mimidae → Phasianidae →	describedBy
Thomas Horsfield →	name