Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for coauthoring Biologia CentraliAmericana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America.

Osbert Salvin was born in Finchley, the second son of the architect Anthony Salvin, of Hawksfold, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1857. Shortly afterwards he accompanied his second cousin by marriage, Henry Baker Tristram, in a natural history exploration of Tunisia and eastern Algeria. Their account of this trip was published in The Ibis in 1859 and 1860. In the autumn of 1857, he made the first of several visits to Guatemala, returning there with Frederick DuCane Godman in 1861. It was during this journey that the Biologia CentraliAmericana was planned.

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