Alfred Eaton: a Victorian naturalist at the ends of the world
Alfred Edwin Eaton (1844–1929) was amongst numerous Victorian naturalists whose exotic collections disseminated to the natural history museums of Britain laid the groundwork for our understanding of biodiversity. What sets him apart from his contemporaries was his first-hand knowledge of organisms a...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:835bfc9296dd43818b49f724373b1795 2023-05-15T15:04:35+02:00 Alfred Eaton: a Victorian naturalist at the ends of the world C. Leah Devlin 2022-12-01 https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.8420 https://doaj.org/article/835bfc9296dd43818b49f724373b1795 en eng Norwegian Polar Institute 0800-0395 1751-8369 doi:10.33265/polar.v41.8420 https://doaj.org/article/835bfc9296dd43818b49f724373b1795 undefined Polar Research, Vol 41, Pp 1-10 (2022) svalbard kerguelen island entomology 1873 benjamin leigh smith expedition 1874 transit of venus expedition aptery geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2022 fttriple https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.8420 2023-01-22T19:25:59Z Alfred Edwin Eaton (1844–1929) was amongst numerous Victorian naturalists whose exotic collections disseminated to the natural history museums of Britain laid the groundwork for our understanding of biodiversity. What sets him apart from his contemporaries was his first-hand knowledge of organisms at the polar extremes. This paper describes Eaton’s contributions to polar biology, especially in the field of entomology, from two high-latitude expeditions: the 1873 Benjamin Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the European Arctic and the 1874 British Transit of Venus Expedition to Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian Ocean. His observations of flightless polar and subpolar insects, in particular, lent support to the work of Challenger naturalist Henry Moseley and botanist Joseph Hooker on species dispersal in the Southern Ocean and on adaptations that arise in response to the unique selection pressures in harsh, isolated conditions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Polar Research Southern Ocean Svalbard Unknown Arctic Hooker ENVELOPE(-62.050,-62.050,-63.283,-63.283) Indian Kerguelen Kerguelen Island ENVELOPE(69.500,69.500,-49.250,-49.250) Lent ENVELOPE(-66.783,-66.783,-66.867,-66.867) Southern Ocean Svalbard Venus ENVELOPE(-57.842,-57.842,-61.925,-61.925) Polar Research 41 |
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Alfred Edwin Eaton (1844–1929) was amongst numerous Victorian naturalists whose exotic collections disseminated to the natural history museums of Britain laid the groundwork for our understanding of biodiversity. What sets him apart from his contemporaries was his first-hand knowledge of organisms at the polar extremes. This paper describes Eaton’s contributions to polar biology, especially in the field of entomology, from two high-latitude expeditions: the 1873 Benjamin Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the European Arctic and the 1874 British Transit of Venus Expedition to Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian Ocean. His observations of flightless polar and subpolar insects, in particular, lent support to the work of Challenger naturalist Henry Moseley and botanist Joseph Hooker on species dispersal in the Southern Ocean and on adaptations that arise in response to the unique selection pressures in harsh, isolated conditions. |
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