William Doherty
{{short description|American entomologist}}
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William Doherty (May 15, 1857 in Cincinnati – May 25, 1901 in Nairobi{{cite wikisource
| last=Janson | first=Oliver E. |author-link=Oliver Erichson Janson
| year=1901
|title=Obituary - William Doherty
|wslink=Page:The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 5 (1901).djvu/414
|publisher=The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 5, issue 724 (October, 1901), pp. 386/7
}}) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22660#page/556/mode/1up Novitates Zoologicae v8 (1901) pp.494-506] Obituary by Ernst Hartert [includes bibliography] He died of dysentery while in Nairobi.
Travels
Image:Arhopala alitaeus mirabella CRW 5443-01.jpg Doherty, 1889 J. asiat. Soc. Bengal]]
From 1877 to 1881, before he became a collector, he traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East and thence to Persia. His entomological collecting activities commenced in earnest in 1882 while in South Asia. He collected butterflies in India, Burma, the Andaman Islands, Nicobar, Siam, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea and British East Africa and described many new species. After a visit to Hartert at Tring in 1895, he was recruited by Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who came to regarded him as his best bird collector.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds|date=2014|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1472905741}} While collecting in Uganda, he fell ill and was carried to a hospital by his Lepcha collectors.Holland, W.J. (1902) [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2568349 Obituary]. Entomological News 13:63-65.
Collections
His collections are shared between the American Museum of Natural History,{{cite web|last=LeCroy |first=M |title=Type Specimens of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History Part 5. Passeriformes: Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Motacillidae, Campephagidae, Pycnonotidae, Irenidae, Laniidae, Vangidae, Bombycillidae, Dulidae, Cinclidae, Troglodytidae, And Mimidae |work=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |year=2003 |url=http://diglib1.amnh.org/bulletins/i0003-0090-278-01-0001.pdf |accessdate=2007-06-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050308041602/http://diglib1.amnh.org/bulletins/i0003-0090-278-01-0001.pdf |archivedate=March 8, 2005 }} the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Eponyms
Many of the birds he collected for Lord Rothschild were named after him, including Doherty's bushshrike Malaconotus dohertyi, red-naped fruit dove Ptilinopus dohertyi, Sumba cicadabird Coracina dohertyi and crested white-eye Lophozosterops dohertyi.
References
External links
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/25993 BHL] Hartert, Ernst (1896) An account of the collections of birds made by Mr. William Doherty in the Eastern Archipelago London.
- [https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_110230_williamdohertyobituary9999 Obituary] by Ernst Hartert (1901) in Novitates Zoologicae, vol. 8, p. 494f.
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