John Cranch (naturalist) explained

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 and References

  1. Book: James Hingston Tuckey . James Hingston Tuckey . Christen Smith . Christen Smith . 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 . 17 February 2013 . 1818 . Murray . lxxi–lxxviii.
  2. Book: Keith Harrison & Eric Smith . 2008 . Rifle-Green by Nature: A Regency Naturalist and his Family, William Elford Leach. . London: The Ray Society . 978-0-9-03874-35-9.
  3. Book: David M. Damkaer . 2002 . The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1 . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240 . . 978-0-87169-240-5 . Adding pages . 131–155 . https://books.google.com/books?id=TgUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA147.
  4. Web site: Cirolana cranchi Leach, 1818. WorMS.

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