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Thomas Martyn (zoologist)

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The English Entomologist, exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, including upwards of five hundred different Species, the Figures of which have never before been given to the Public … Drawn and Painted after Nature, arranged and named according to the Linnean System, … at his
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Little is known about Thomas Martyn's life, and nothing is known about his parents, his wife and his children. It is believed that he was born in 1760 in
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Hints of important Uses to be derived from Aerostatic Globes. With a Print of an Aerostatic Globe … originally designed in 1783
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Great Britain's Jubilee Monitor and Briton's Mirror … of their most sacred Majesties George III and Charlotte his Queen
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he established an academy for the painting of Natural History. Besides English, Martyn spoke French and Latin.
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Figures of non-descript Shells collected in the different Voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764
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A short Account of the Nature, Principle, and Progress of a Private Establishment …
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A Dive into Buonaparte's Councils on his projected Invasion of old England
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The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known Shell
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Plates from Thomas Martyn's "The Universal Conchologist"
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Psyche: Figures of non-descript Lepidopterous Insects …
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Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History
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Thomas Martyn (disambiguation)
zoologist
conchologist
entomologist
botanist of the same name
Coventry
London
Westminster
Eleazar Albin
Moses Harris
Benjamin West
"Martyn, Thomas (fl.1760-1816)" 
Dictionary of National Biography
"'This laborious, expensive, and arduous undertaking' : Thomas Martyn's The universal conchologist"
Thomas Martyn's "English Entomologist"
The Universal Conchologist, London: 1789
Plates from Thomas Martyn's "The Universal Conchologist"
public domain
Martyn, Thomas (fl.1760-1816)
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1760s births
1816 deaths
English zoologists
English malacologists
English entomologists
People from Coventry
Conchologists

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