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SIR JOHN RICHARDSON (1787-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:RICHARDSON (1787-1865)  , See also:British naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Dumfries on the 5th of See also:November 1787 . He studiedmedicine at See also:Edinburgh, and became a surgeon in the See also:navy in r8o7 . In 1819 he was appointed surgeon and naturalist to See also:Franklin's first See also:arctic expedition (1819-22), and he served in the same capacity to the second (1825-26) . The scientific results of these expeditions he described in contributions to Franklin's Narratives, and especially in the four See also:quarto volumes of his See also:Fauna Boreali-Americana (1829-37) . He was knighted in 1846, and in the following See also:year was chosen See also:commander of the Franklin See also:search expedition (1848-49), the See also:journal of which he published in 1851 under the See also:title of An Arctic Searching Expedition . In 1855 he retired to See also:Grasmere, where he died on the 5th of See also:June 1865 . He also wrote accounts dealing with the natural See also:history, and especially the See also:ichthyology, of several other arctic voyages, and was the author of Icones Piscium (1843), See also:Catalogue of Apodal See also:Fish in the British Museum, translated from the See also:German MS . (1856), the second edition of See also:Yarrell's History of British Fishes (186o), and The Polar Regions (1861), See also:expanded from an See also:article with the same title which he wrote for the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica . A See also:Life by See also:John MacIlraith was published in 1868 .

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