Portraits of several naturalists
Other biographical & etymological links:
Online
Etymology Dictionary
2400
years of Malacology (most complete list of malacologists)
Annelida
Biographies & Obituaries
Antarctic
Expeditions
Botanical collectors
Australian
Scientists (many entries)
Biographical
Dict. of Biologists
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Eric's
Treasure Trove of Scientific Biographies
Famous
Biologists
Internet
Resource Guide f. Zoology
New
England Naturalists: a Bio-Biblography
Nova
Supplementa Entomologica 12 (11) 1998 (many life spans &
shortened author names)
Tom
Meijer's European Malacologists (very good, with refs to
published biographies)
New
General Catalog of Old Books and Authors (including > 64 000
authors)
Approved
List of Bacterial names
Autor names
Entomological
authors (including life span and name abbreviations)
Tom
Eichhorst's mollusk links (including many taxon names)
Mexican
taxonomists (modern)
Lives
(biographical link site to many resources)
Mike Grayson: A zoological 'Who was who'
Women in Science
Ocean
Scientists
Bird
name authors
Lichen
collectors
Antarctic
explorers
Australian carcinologists
Today in Science History
Correspondents
of Linnnaeus
Brief list of Important Female Figures
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
World
Diptera Systematics Homepage
Birds
of the World (see its Author Index)
American
Scientific Exploration 1803-60
Collectors
of insects and arachnids in Africa
Biographical
notes about persons essential to Linnaeus
Biographies
of persons honoured in herpetological names
Biographical Notes on Southern African Botanical Epithets Based on Personal Names
New
General Catalog of Old Books & Authors
Institute
Pasteur - notes biographiques
History
of hypogean ichthyology
Biographies
of Mathematicians
Museum
collection managers
Dictionnaire
de malacologie
Darwin
correspondents
Persons
mentioned by A.R. Wallace
History
of Astronomy
British
coleoperists
Tanaidacea
Scholars
Some
botanical authors
California
plant names
Discoverer's
web
Eponyms
Biographical dictionaries:
Major
World Biographical
Index (ca 2,400,000)
The
Biographical Dictionary (>28,000)
Famous
Americans (until 1899) (>30,000)
Dictionary of New
Zealand Biography (>3000)
Svenskt
biografiskt handlexikon (2:nd ed., 1906)
Minor
Biography
Center (ca 11,000)
Biography.com
(ca 25,000)
Great
Books Five Stars (linked net biographies)
Lives, The
Biography Resource (similar, but larger)
Jack
Tourette's biographical collection (26,000 +)
Croatian
Entomological society Biographies (partly finished)
Biografisch
Woordenboek van Nederland (covering period 1850-2000; 1863
biographies)
Portrait Galleries:
Galleries
of Malacologists (Vanna Rotolo)
Gallery
of Malacologists (Kevin S. Cumming)
Lefalophodon
home page
Bibliographical databases (may have dates of
authors):
Academy
of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
The
Circuit
American Museumm of
Nat. Hist.
Natural
History Museum, London
Smithsonian
Institution Library
History
of Oceanography
Allan
Hancock Library of Biology and Oceanography
Other links to organism name sites
Curiosities
of Biological nomenclature
Doug
Yanega's curious Scientific Names
Index
to Organism Names
IPNI (the
International Plant Names Index)
Fishbase
Anemooon (a Dutch marine resource at the Leinden Museum - mainly mollusks - thanks to Dr. Godfried van Moorsel!)
Obituaries
The
International Who's Who
Google
Alta
Vista (advanced)
Old Natural History literature
Kurt
Stüber´s Online Library
Other web pages on this server, e.g.:
TMBL:s home
page
Aquascope
Explanations (some terms):
Eponym: a name named for a person; an eponym after a man may
also be called a patronym and after a woman (derived from womb man) a
matronym.
Toponym: a name named after a place.
Aptromym: a name, which is aptly suited to its owners
profession.
Charactonym: a name well suiting a person's personality.
Exonym: a name used by foreigners but differing from the
native name, e.g. Naples, which people from Italy call Napoli (and
the original Greek inhabitants used the name Neapolis, meaning the
new city).
Tautonym: a biological binomen, where the specific name is
identical to the generic.