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About Mark Catesby
Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
Everything about Mark Catesby →- Occupation
- botanist, ornithologist, illustrator, painter
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- March 24, 1683
- Died
- December 23, 1749