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See also:WILLUGHBY, See also:FRANCIS (1635—1672) , See also:English ornithologist and ichthyologist, son of See also:Sir Francis Willughby, was See also:born at See also:Middleton, See also:Warwickshire, in 1635. He is memorable as the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, friend and See also:patron as well as the active and See also:original co-worker of See also:John See also:Ray (q.v.), and hence to be reckoned as one of the most important precursors of See also:Linnaeus. His connexion with Ray dated from his studies at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge (1653—1659) and, after concluding his See also:academic See also:life by a brief sojourn at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and acquiring considerable experience of travel in See also:England, he made an extensive See also:Continental tour in his See also:company. The specimens, figures and notes thus accumulated were in See also:great See also:part elaborated on his return into his Ornithologia, which, how-ever, he did not live to publish, having injured a naturally delicate constitution by alternate exposure and over-study. This See also:work was published in 1676, and translated by Ray as the See also:Ornithology of Fr. Willughby (See also:London, 1678, fol.); the same friend published his Historia Piscium (1686, fol.). Willughby died at Middleton See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall on the 3rd of See also:July 1672.
In Ray's See also:preface to the former work he gives Willughby much of the See also:credit usually assigned to himself, both as critic and systematist.
End of Article: WILLUGHBY, FRANCIS (1635—1672)
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