Carl Jakob Sundevall [SEP] date of death
Carl Jakob Sundevall
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801, Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist.
Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the vertebrate section from 1839 to 1871. He wrote "Svenska Foglarna" (1856–87) which described 238 species of
1835 in birding and ornithology
- The Beagle lands at the Galápagos Islands and Charles Darwin collects the finches which bear his name.
- Carl Jakob Sundevall develops a phylogeny for the birds in "Lärobok i zoologien" (Handbook of Zoology). This is based on the muscles of the hip and leg.
- Frédéric de Lafresnaye describes the magpie mannikin and the cactus wren in "Revue et magasin de zoologie" (founded by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.
- Death of Alexander Collie
- Death of