About Thomas Bridges
Lived 1807 – 1865 (aged 57–58). Thomas Bridges was a British botanist.
Thomas Bridges (22 May 1807 – 9 November 1865) was an English Victorian era botanist and traveling specimen collector. He is most notable for his discovery of new plant and animal species from South America in the Andes of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as in California. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1844. He collected at various times (after 1856) in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His wife's uncle was Hugh Cuming.
As a result of his collecting, several new species were named after him, including: Octodon bridgesii Bridges's degu Copiapoa bridgesii Copiapoa de Bridges Penstemon bridgesii Pomacea bridgesii Spike-topped apple snail
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Victorian botanist and traveling specimen collector (1807-1865)
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Thomas Bridges was born in 1807 in Lilly.
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Thomas Bridges died in 1865.
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Thomas Bridges was a botanist.
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· DBpedia: Thomas Bridges (botanist)
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