Edward Blyth by Pratim Das

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***SUNDAY SPECIAL *** Edward Blyth... Coloured pencil on Grey tinted paper... 2016. ???? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ????????? ??????? ?????? ?? ??? ???????? ??? ?????????? ????? ?? ????????? ????????? ?????? " Darwin was not the first to fully describe natural selection; it was a creationist, Edward Blyth, 24 years before Origin of Species. Darwin just popularized an already existing idea and tagged it onto his belief about origins." Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India at Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 he travelled to India to become the curator of the museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. He set about updating the museum's catalogues, publishing a Catalogue of the Birds of the Asiatic Society in 1849. He was prevented from doing much fieldwork himself, but received and described bird specimens