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Thomas Edward Bowdich (20 June 1791 – 10 January 1824) was an English traveller and author.[1]

  1. ^ Gibson 1886, pp. 41, 42.

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Thomas Edward Bowdich

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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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Bowdich

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traveller, and zoologist Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), English traveller and author This page lists people with the surname Bowdich. If an internal link...

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Carnivora

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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

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"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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Ashanti Empire

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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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Asante people

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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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History of Kumasi

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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 cloth

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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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Chair

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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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Osei Bonsu

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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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Palace

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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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List of authors of names published under the ICZN

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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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Tectibranchia

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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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Prostitution in Ghana

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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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African Company of Merchants

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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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Coromantee

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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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Melanella

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1917 Melanella dubusi (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1902) † Melanella dufresnii Bowdich, 1822 Melanella eburnea (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824) Melanella elenensis...

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Madeira finch

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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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Asante Traditional Buildings

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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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List of Old Bristolians

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Broughton (1787–1837), military surgeon Thomas Edward Bowdich (c.1791–1824), writer and African explorer Thomas William Allies (1813–1903), theologian...

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Nyctalus

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Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Vespertilionidae Tribe: Pipistrellini Genus: Nyctalus Bowdich, 1825 Type species Nyctalus verrucosus Species See text...

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John Hope Smith

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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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Osei Kwadwo

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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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List of ornithologists abbreviated names

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Lucien Bonaparte, a French ornithologist and biologist. Bowd → Thomas Edward Bowdich, an English explorer. Br → Christian Ludwig Brehm or Mathurin Jacques...

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Water supply and sanitation in Ghana

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existence of cisterns which were on average, two meters deep. In 1817, Thomas Edward Bowdich documented upon the sanitation methods in the Ashanti Empire including...

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Aban Palace

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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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List of malacologists

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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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Sarah Bowdich Lee

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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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