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    Thomas Edward Bowdich (20 June 1791 – 10 January 1824) was an English traveller and author. Bowdich was born at Bristol and educated at Bristol Grammar...
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  • enforcement officer Sarah Bowdich Lee (née Wallis) (1791–1866), English author, illustrator, traveller, and zoologist Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), English...
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    Carnivora (category Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich)
    procyonids). It was not until 1821 that the English writer and traveler Thomas Edward Bowdich gave the group its modern and accepted name. Initially, the modern...
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    Rodent (category Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich)
    "Rodentia" is attributed to the English traveler and naturalist Thomas Edward Bowdich (1821). The Modern Latin word Rodentia is derived from rodens, present...
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    influenced by Twi, can all be found on the island of Jamaica. White planter Edward Long, like other planters before him, described "Coromantees" the same way...
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    massive and ornately built. In 1819, English traveler and author, Thomas Edward Bowdich described the palace complex as ...an immense building of a variety...
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    attributed to Coromantees. According to enslaver and colonial administrator Edward Long, the first rebellion occurred in 1690 between three or four hundred...
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    fairly tall but for the most part only one story." A year later, Thomas Edward Bowdich documented that the central city, with the exclusion of suburbs...
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    Kente made out of silk was fully developed in Ashanti. In 1817, Thomas Edward Bowdich noted that weaving in Ashanti had progressed to an extent that cloths...
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  • shells and the modern families Pleurobranchidae and Aplysiidae. Thomas Edward Bowdich (1822) Latinized the term as Tectibranchi. Pomatobranchiata Schweigger...
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    World Heritage Site Architecture of the Ashanti Empire drawn by Thomas Edward Bowdich in 1817 Location Ghana Criteria Cultural: (v) Reference 35 Inscription...
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    began to change every few years to reflect the fashions of the day. Thomas Edward Bowdich visited the main Palace of the Ashanti Empire in 1819, and observed...
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  • force against Ashanti, while the two diplomats sent, his nephew Thomas Edward Bowdich 1817 and Joseph Dupuis 1821 thought otherwise. In August 1817 Smith...
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  • naturalist Thomas Edward Bowdich, whose interests in nature, travel, and adventure she shared. In 1819, they went to Paris to visit Baron Cuvier; Thomas had...
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    Melanella (category Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich)
    1917 Melanella dubusi (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902) † Melanella dufresnii Bowdich, 1822 Melanella eburnea (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824) Melanella elenensis...
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  • court received Willem Huydecoper (in 1816), Frederick James and Thomas Edward Bowdich with William Hutchinson and Henry Tedlie (in 1817), as well as Joseph...
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    royal palace at Kumasi, Ghana was described by English explorers Thomas Edward Bowdich and Winwood Reade as "an immense building of a variety of oblong...
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  • members of the African Company of Merchants Ashanti–Akim–Akwapim War Thomas Edward Bowdich List of members of the African Company of Merchants Adams, Robert;...
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    Nyctalus (category Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich)
    Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Vespertilionidae Tribe: Pipistrellini Genus: Nyctalus Bowdich, 1825 Type species Nyctalus verrucosus Species See text...
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    had the interest of constructing a personal residence. In 1817, Thomas Edward Bowdich noted that all the captains were made to provide a significant amount...
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  • activities in exchange for negotiated price. In the early 19th century, Thomas Edward Bowdich reported on prostitution in the Ashanti Empire; Prostitutes are...
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  • Authority was no longer obtained based on predetermined status as Thomas Edward Bowdich wrote in 1821 that "the aristocracy in Ashantee until Sai Cudjo's...
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  • writer and Esperantist Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet"...
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    and illustration of a bird by British author Thomas Edward Bowdich, published by his widow Sarah Bowdich Lee in the 1825 book Excursions in Madeira and...
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  • (born 1956, US, nf) Avice Maud Bowbyes (1901–1992, N Zealand, nf) Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824, England, nf) Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler (1717-1797, England...
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  • Bourcier (1797–1873) Bouvier – Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856–1944) BowdichThomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824) Bowerbank – James Scott Bowerbank (1797–1877) Branch...
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    edition of Systema Naturae. In 1825, Thomas Edward Bowdich described the species under the name "Planes clypeatus"; Bowdich's genus is now used for all the Columbus...
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    France Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824) England John William Brazier (1842–1930) Australia William Broderip (1789–1859) England Captain Thomas Brown (1785–1862)...
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    1816: Thomas Edward Bowdich signs a treaty with the Asante, recognising fort rents and British protection of Gold Coast residents 1819: Bowdich after...
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    the Asante by a European was carried out by the British envoy, Thomas Edward Bowdich in 1817. Upon their release, the Ramseyers went back to Switzerland...
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