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Obituary : John Miall Winterbottom 1903-1984 / P. A. Clancey

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The Ostrich. p.107-109 ill. ; Vol.55 No.2Publication details: Pietermaritzburg : Natal Witness, 1984Description: 3 pages : illustrations; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • PER 76 The Ostrich
Summary: John Miall Winterbottom was born in Cape Town on 26 August 1903. He obtaidut his P H D from the London University. In 1960 appointed as the first Director of the Percy Fitz Patrick Institute of African Ornithology of Cape Town. Through his personal interest extensive work on the avifauna of South West Africa must be counted as among the more significant of his many major contributions to Afrotropical ornithology. He also wrote the current checklist of the birds of South West Africa. He died in Cape Town on 16 March 1984
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John Miall Winterbottom was born in Cape Town on 26 August 1903. He obtaidut his P H D from the London University. In 1960 appointed as the first Director of the Percy Fitz Patrick Institute of African Ornithology of Cape Town. Through his personal interest extensive work on the avifauna of South West Africa must be counted as among the more significant of his many major contributions to Afrotropical ornithology. He also wrote the current checklist of the birds of South West Africa. He died in Cape Town on 16 March 1984

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