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1836a. A catalogue of the species annulose animals and of rayed ones found in
Ireland as selected from the papers of the late J Templeton Esq. of Cranmore with localities, descriptions and illustrations.
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Lubbock paid tribute to Templeton's early work by naming a thysanuran genus after him —
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Nash, R., Ross, H.C.G. and Vane-Wright, R. (1980) Contributions to natural history by Dr Robert
Templeton, R.A., with special reference to Ceylon. Irish Naturalists' Journal 20:31–33.
472:(died 1874) contributed almost all that was known of the insect fauna of the island at the end of the first half of the nineteenth century including a privately printed list of
745:, Templeton's mynah. The monkeys were studiously appraised and some of the results communicated to the Zoological Society of London. These communications, one of the monkey
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1065:1844: 3; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844 14: 361–362.
757:which turned out to be identical with Bennet's
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1098:1847a. Notes upon Ceylonese Lepidoptera.
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1307:1892 deaths
1302:1802 births
912:2: 111–112
697:vertebrates
515:. Many are
446:manuscripts
427:butterflies
405:Hymenoptera
332:Lepidoptera
324:Hymenoptera
316:Lepidoptera
288:Templetonia
241:Crimean War
233:Uttarakhand
90:, Ireland.
62:August 2018
1296:Categories
1157:References
1102:5: 44–45.
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851:(Q3436389)
630:Ampullaria
490:centipedes
468:and later
372:papilionid
348:Coleoptera
346:. The new
326:alongside
320:Coleoptera
217:Tamil Nadu
145:Barracks,
98:Silhouette
80:naturalist
1162:Citations
1087:Oiketicus
1047:12:89–91
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642:Planorbis
497:S. crassa
486:Amblypygi
478:Myriapoda
474:Thysanura
268:Thysanura
229:Karnataka
154:Mauritius
127:Edinburgh
46:summarize
1288:Volume 5
1279:Volume 3
1270:Volume 2
1261:Volume 1
1178:(2007).
1145:See also
1127:Vaginula
1080:1844: 1.
1029:Cermatia
624:Neritina
612:Achatina
603:Mollusca
456:and the
415:'s book
262:Plate 11
147:Woolwich
946:Lepisma
936:1836b.
870:Dysdera
844:Scholia
711:in the
705:monkeys
648:Melania
636:Valvata
452:), the
413:Tennent
401:beetles
284:species
237:Kashmir
194:Albania
166:Colombo
137:in the
135:Surgeon
88:Belfast
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1076:Benn.
942:Podura
657:Ceylon
501:Memnon
280:genera
245:Crimea
225:Kerala
213:Madras
209:Ceylon
170:Ceylon
162:Recife
1109:Sorex
905:1834a
861:1833
830:Works
701:birds
618:Helix
517:Types
431:moths
190:Corfu
186:Malta
1198:ISBN
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