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Edwin Ashby
Edwin Ashby
(2 November 1861 – 8 January 1941) was an
Adelaide
based
Australian
property developer
and a noted
malacologist
interested in
chitons
and
ornithologist
. He was a founding member of the
South Australian Ornithological Association
(SAOA) in 1899, and of the
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
(RAOU) in 1901 for which he served as president 1926. The avian genus
Ashbyia
(represented by the
gibberbird
Ashbyia lovensis
) was named for him by
Gregory Mathews
.
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