John Cranch (naturalist)

John Cranch (1785–1816) was an English naturalist and explorer.[1]

Explorer

John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends[2] - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the River Congo, and died there.[3]

Legacy

His friend William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition.[3] These include for example the marine isopod crustacean Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818.[4]

Notes

James Hingston Tuckey; Christen Smith (1818). Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N.: to which is added, The journal of Professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing The natural history of that part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. Murray. pp. lxxi–lxxviii. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. London: The Ray Society. ISBN 978-0-9-03874-35-9.
David M. Damkaer (2002). "Adding pages". The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240. American Philosophical Society. pp. 131–155. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
"Cirolana cranchi Leach, 1818". WorMS.

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[1] James Hingston Tuckey; Christen Smith (1818). Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N.: to which is added, The journal of Professor Smith; some general observations on the country and its inhabitants; and an appendix: containing The natural history of that part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. Murray. pp. lxxi–lxxviii. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

[RaySoc-2] Keith Harrison & Eric Smith (2008). Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. London: The Ray Society. ISBN 978-0-9-03874-35-9.

[Damkaer-3] David M. Damkaer (2002). "Adding pages". The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240. American Philosophical Society. pp. 131–155. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.

[4] "Cirolana cranchi Leach, 1818". WorMS.