Death of John Cotton, an early cataloguer of the birds of Victoria, Australia. Louis Fraser publishes Zoologica Typica, describing the new specimens held by the Zoological Society of London. Death of William Gambel, who first described Gambel's quail and Nuttall's woodpecker, and is the namesake of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli). Death of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, who contributed a large number of specimens to the Berlin Museum, including the holotype of Ardea leuce – a synonym of great egret. Philip Henry Gosse publishes Popular British Ornithology and a companion Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica to his 1847 work, The Birds of Jamaica. The National Museum of Singapore begins, stemming from artifact donations to the Singapore Library.
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