Edward Donovan (1768 - 1837)

Edward Donovan

Edward Donovan was a British-Irish amateur zoologist, illustrator and writer.

He was an avid collector and founded the Natural History Museum and Institute in London, which housed his extensive collection of natural history objects. Donovan was the author of a large number of works on natural history, and wrote several volumes on British birds, fish, and insects, botanical surveys, and on the entomology of China and India. All of these publications were supplied with good quality and detailed illustrations.