Sir John Richardson

November 5th

Scottish naval general practitioner and naturalist who made correct surveys of greater of the Canadian Arctic coast than another explorer, in provider with the Royal navy (1807-55). During this time he turned into general practitioner and naturalist to Sir John Franklin’s polar expeditions (1819-22, 1825-27). On the second one expeditions, he separated from Franklin to discover the coast to the Coppermine River and Great Slave Lake (1826). He carried out a seek day trip (1848-49) for Franklin’s misplaced 0.33 Arctic day trip that had commenced in 1845, however turned into not able to locate any hint of Franklin’s ships. He wrote Fauna Boreali-Americana (1829-37) which have become a fashionable paintings on Arctic biology. He additionally wrote on ichthyology and polar exploration.