All Topics  
John Richardson (naturalist)

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

John Richardson (naturalist)
 
 
  Topics John Richardson (naturalist) Topic Home

Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 – June 5, 1865) was a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 naval
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
 surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
, naturalist
Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals....
 and arctic
Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
 explorer.

Richardson was born at Dumfries
Dumfries

Dumfries is a town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland and is situated close to the Solway Firth, near the mouth of the River Nith....
. He studied medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
 at Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin
John Franklin

Sir John Franklin, Royal Geographical Society was a United Kingdom Royal Navy Officer and Arctic List of explorers who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America....
 in search of the Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822
Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822

The Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822 had as its goal the exploration of the northern coast of Canada, which was accessed by way of the Coppermine River....
. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and icthyology for the official account of the expedition.

Franklin and Richardson returned to Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 between 1825 and 1827, again traveling overland to the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'John Richardson (naturalist)'
Start a new discussion about 'John Richardson (naturalist)'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 – June 5, 1865) was a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 naval
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
 surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
, naturalist
Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals....
 and arctic
Arctic

The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctica region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland....
 explorer.

Richardson was born at Dumfries
Dumfries

Dumfries is a town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland and is situated close to the Solway Firth, near the mouth of the River Nith....
. He studied medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
 at Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin
John Franklin

Sir John Franklin, Royal Geographical Society was a United Kingdom Royal Navy Officer and Arctic List of explorers who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America....
 in search of the Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822
Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822

The Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822 had as its goal the exploration of the northern coast of Canada, which was accessed by way of the Coppermine River....
. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and icthyology for the official account of the expedition.

Franklin and Richardson returned to Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 between 1825 and 1827, again traveling overland to the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
. The natural history discoveries of this expedition were so great that they had to be recorded in two separate works, the Flora Boreali-Americana (1833-40), written by William Jackson Hooker
William Jackson Hooker

Sir William Jackson Hooker, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English botany....
, and the Fauna Boreali-Americana (1829-37), written by Richardson, William John Swainson, John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray was a United Kingdom zoology. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
 and William Kirby.

At the British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Association for the Advancement of Science

The British Association for the Advancement of Science or the British Science Association, formally known as the BA, is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating interaction between scientific workers....
 meeting in 1842, Richardson described the diving apparatus
Standard diving dress

A standard diving dress consists of a metallic diving helmet, an airline or air hose from a surface supplied diving air diving pump, a canvas diving suit, diving knife and boots....
 and treatment of diver Roderick Cameron following an injury that occurred on the 14th of October 1841 during the salvage operations on the HMS Royal George
HMS Royal George (1756)

HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 February 1756....
.

Richardson was knighted in 1846. He traveled with John Rae
John Rae (explorer)

Dr. John Rae was a Scotland doctor who became known as an Exploration of Canada's Arctic....
 on an unsuccessful search for Franklin in 1848-49, describing it in An Arctic Searching Expedition (1851). He retired to the Lake District
Lake District

The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its mountains , and its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets....
 in 1855, and is buried at St Oswald's Church Grasmere
Grasmere

Grasmere is a village in central Cumbria, England. It is also the name of the adjacent lake. Grasmere's position in the centre of the Lake District National Park, as well as its connections with the Lake Poets, has made it popular as a tourist destination....
.

He also wrote accounts dealing with the natural 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 (1856), the second edition of Yarrell's history of British Fishes (1860), and The Polar Regions (1861). and Arctic Ordeal