Hugh Edwin Strickland | |
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| Born | 2 March 1811 Reighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 14 September 1853 (aged 42) |
| Citizenship | Britain |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology Ornithology Natural history Systematics |
Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code, that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature.