Lihat sumber Richard Lydekker

'''Richard Lydekker''' (25 Juli 1849 – 16 April 1915) adalah seorang [[sejarah alam|naturalis]] dan [[geolog]] [[Inggris]] yang juga penulis berbagai buku mengenai [[sejarah alam]].

== Biografi ==


Richard Lydekker dilahirkan di Tavistock Square di [[London]]. Ayahnya adalah Gerard Wolfe Lydekker, seorang pengacara berketurunan Belanda. Keluraga mereka pindah ke Harpenden Lodge segera setelah kelahiran Richard. Ia menempuh pendidikan di [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], di mana ia mengambil kelas pertama di tripos Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam (1872). Pada tahun 1874, ia bergabung dengan [[Geological Survey of India]] dan melakukan studi mengenai [[paleontologi]] [[vertebrata]] di India utara (terutama [[Kashmir]]). Ia tetap bertugas di sama hingga wafatnya ayahnya pada tahun 1881. Penelitian utamanya di India adalah mengenai palaeofau Siwalik; yang diterbitkan dalam ''Palaeontologia Indica''. Ia bertanggung jawab membuat katalog beragam [[fosil]] [[mamalia]], [[reptilia]], dan [[burung]] pada [[Natural History Museum, London]] (10 vols., 1891).

Ia adalah tokoh berpengaruh dalam bidang keilmuan [[biogeografi]]. Pada tahun 1895, ia menetapkan batas biogeografi yang melalui [[Indonesia]], yang dikenal sebagai [[Garis Lydekker]], meliputi regional Maluku yang memisahkan garis [[Wallacea]] di sebelah barat dengan [[Australia (benua)|Australia-Nugini]] di sebelah timur.

Lydekker menarik perhatian publik melalui dua suratnya yang dikirimkan ke ''[[The Times]]'' pada tahunh 1913, saat ia menulis bahwa pada 6 Februari ia telah mendengar suara seekor [[Kangkok erasia|kangkok]], berlawanan dengan ''[[History of British Birds (1843)|History of British Birds]]'' karya [[William Yarrell|Yarrell]] yang meragukan bahwa burung tersebut telah tiba sebelum bulan April. Enam hari kemudian pada 12 Februari 1913, ia menulis lagi, mengakui bahwa "catatan tersebut adalah ucapan seorang buruh tukang batu". Setelah itu, surat-surat mengenai kangkok pertama menjadi sebuah tradisi dalam persurat-kabaran Inggris.

Ia menerima [[Lyell Medal]] dari [[Geological Society of London]] pada 1902.

== Karya ==


* ''Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum (Natural History)'', 5 vols. (1885-1887)
* ''A Manual of Palaeontology'' (with [[Henry Alleyne Nicholson]], 2 vols., 1889)
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001998029 ''Phases of Animal Life''] (1892)
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007918485 ''The Royal Natural History''] (with [[William Henry Flower|W. H. Flower]]], 6 vols., 12 sec. (1893-1896)
* ''A Hand-book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata'' (1894)
* ''Life and Rock: A Collection of Zooogical and Geological Essays'' (1894)
* ''A Geographical History of Mammals'' (1896)
* ''A Hand-book to the British Mammalia'' (1896)
* ''A Handbook to the Carnivora: part 1: cats, civets, and mongooses'' (1896)
* ''The Deer of all Lands: A history of the family Cervidae, living and extinct'' (1898)
* ''Wild Oxen, Sheep & Goats of all Lands, Living and Extinct (1898)
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005262070 ''The Wild Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet''] (1900)
* ''The great and small game of Europe, western & northern Asia and America'' (1901)
* ''The New Natural History'' 6 vols. (1901)
* ''Living Races of Mankind:: A popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts, and ceremonies of the races of mankind throughout the world'', 2 vols. (1902), [https://archive.org/details/livingracesofman01hutcuoft] & [https://archive.org/details/livingracesofman02hutcuoft] with [[Henry Neville Hutchinson]] and [[John Walter Gregory]]
* ''Mostly Mammals: Zoological Essays'' (1903)
* ''Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia in the British museum (1906)
* ''Sir William Flower'' (1906)
* ''The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet'' (rev. ed.) (1907)
* ''Guide to the Great Game Animals (Ungulata) in British Museum'' (1907)
* ''Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family (Equidæ) in British Museum'' (1907)
* [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006250466 ''The Game Animals of Africa''] (1908)
* ''A Guide to the Domesticated Animals (other than horses) (1908)
* ''Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins (order Cetacea) (1909)
* A number of articles in the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'']], 1911
* ''Animal Portraiture'' (1912) [http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/60811#/summary]
* ''The Horse and its Relatives'' (1912)
* ''The Sheep and its Cousins'' (1912)
* ''Catalogue of the heads and horns of Indian big game bequeathed by A. O. Hume ... to the British Museum (Natural History)'' (1913)
* ''Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History)'' 5 vols. (1913-1916)
* ''Wild life of the World: a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals'' 3 vols. (1916)

== Lihat pula ==
* [[Australia (benua)]]
* [[Garis Wallace]]
* [[Wallacea]]
* [[Max Carl Wilhelm Weber]]

== Referensi ==


== Pranala luar ==

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* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4015&Itemid=66 Partial bibliography] at DinoData
* [http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/index.php?s=1&act=refs&CODE=s_refs&author=lydekker&year1=&year2=&title=&boolean=or Lydekkers publications] about [http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/ rhinos]
* [http://www.starfish.ch/dive/Wallacea.html map of Wallace's, Weber's and Lydekker's lines]
* [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Search.aspx?searchTerm=lydekker&searchCat= BDH] Online versions of some Richard Lydekker publications.
* [http://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/page_id__330_path__0p3p.aspx Harpenden History: The Lydekkers of Harpenden Lodge — 1853-1979]
* [http://www.google.com/search?q=inauthor:%22Richard+Lydekker%22&tbm=bks&source=lnt&tbs=bkv:r&sa=X&ei=gxPtVPz0Cof-yQTduYD4Ag&ved=0CA8QpwU Works of Richard Lydekker at Google Books]



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