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

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