Mark Catesby, an English naturalist(born April 3, 1683- died 1749), is considered the founder American Ornithologist. Mark Catesby was a traditional, theoretical, Naturalist, primarily a Botonist, with major contributions in Ornithology. Mark Catesby's reports of the American Colonies' floral and fauna specimen, contributed to the development and publication of the two volume noval, " Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands". The publication acredited Catesby as an Ornithologist who employed accepted theories and modes of description present to this day. After the publication was widely used and abused, Mark Catesby was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Society on April 26, 1733.
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