A portrait of Hugh Cuming late in his life, with shells of some tropical species of sea snails on the table next to him
Hugh Cuming (14 February 1791 – 10 August 1865) was an English collector who was interested in natural history, particularly in conchology and botany. He has been described as the "Prince of Collectors".[1]
Born in England, he spent a number of years in Chile, where he became a successful businessman. He used the money he saved to buy a ship that was specifically built for collecting specimens, and travelled extensively on collecting trips amassing many thousands of specimens. After his death, much of his material was bought by the Natural History Museum in London. A number of species are named after him.
^Dance, S. Peter (1980). "Hugh Cuming (1791-1865) Prince of collectors". Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 9 (4): 477–501. doi:10.3366/jsbnh.1980.9.4.477. ISSN 0037-9778.
HughCuming (14 February 1791 – 10 August 1865) was an English collector who was interested in natural history, particularly in conchology and botany...
cricketer Frederick Cuming (artist), British painter Geoffrey Cuming (1917—1988), English priest, liturgist, and historian HughCuming, English collector...
sister to the monkeys rather than the lemurs, also following findings of HughCuming 80 years earlier and Linnaeus 160 years earlier. For Linnaeus, this ensemble...
tropical moist montane forest. The species was named after the collector HughCuming. It has a brown back and a blue-grey front. It has bare vermillion skin...
in the family Meliaceae. The tree is named for the English naturalist HughCuming. Habitat is rain forests from sea-level to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) elevation...
Shell-Collector's Pilot, as well as The Linnæan System of Conchology. HughCuming (1791–1865) is famous for his huge collection and numerous discoveries...
Descriptions of 38 new species of land-shells, in the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 14 (166) Fontanilla...
a British conchologist, in 1835. The type specimen was collected by HughCuming. Fossil evidence suggests that this species may be as old as 2.5 million...
January to May and August to September. The epithet cumingiana honours HughCuming and platyphylla means "flat- or wide-leaved". Melaleuca cajuputi subsp...
Descriptions of new species of the Genus Conus, from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1853(21): 116–119...
South America principally for making entomological collections, sent to HughCuming, but is known for his Ornithology. Some of his Mexican collections are...
Gasteropodous Mollusca, belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the Collection of HughCuming, Esq., with the description of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological...
specimens were found during an expedition in 1991. During the expedition of HughCuming in 1827 and the 1922 Whitney South Sea Expedition, Lepturus grass was...
of the genus Cibotium. It is named after the 19th century collector, HughCuming. Its apex and young fronds are covered with reddish hairs. It can be...
new genera and several new species of Mollusca, from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1855) 23: 119-124...
and of many new species of the genus Melania, chiefly collected by HughCuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East, and now first described"...
Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22: 130-138, pl...
genus Stilifer. The species was discovered in the Malay Archipelago by HughCuming. It was found burrowing in different parts of the oral disc of Heliaster...
Descriptions of New Species of the Genus Conus, from the Collection of HughCuming, Esq.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1854: 116 -119...
Descriptions of new species of the genus Conus, from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21: 116-119 Puillandre...
The specific name cumingiana is in honor of the English naturalist HughCuming. The type locality of Diaphera cumingiana is the Philippines. Sutcharit...
species of marine shells from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of HughCuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 397–400 Barros...
Description of twenty-seven new species of shells from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1854) 22: 311-317...
(1854 ["1853"]). Descriptions of new shells from the collection of HughCuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21: 69–74. Pallary...
Gasteropodous Mollusca, belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the Collection of HughCuming, Esq., with the description of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological...
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