Henry Smeathman
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Henry Smeathman
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Henry Smeathman (1742–1786) was an English naturalist, best known for his work in entomology and colonial settlement in Sierra Leone. In 1771 the Quaker physician John Fothergill, along with two other members of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks and Marmaduke Tunstall, sponsored Smeathman to spend four years in and around the Sierra Leone peninsula studying its natural history, specifically its insects.
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British entomologist (1742–1786)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Smeathman
date created:
2011-01-01T12:39:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T13:28:20Z
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