Richard Bowdler Sharpe (November 22, 1847 - December 25, 1909) was an English zoologist.

Sharpe was the librarian of the Royal Society from 1867 to 1872. On the death of George Robert Gray in 1872 he joined the British Museum as a Senior Assistant in the Department of Zoology, taking charge of the bird collection. He became Assistant Keeper in 1895, remaining there until his death from pneumonia.

Sharpe founded the British Ornithologists' Club in 1892 and edited its bulletin. He wrote thirteen and a half of the 27 volumes of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum (1874-1898).

Publications

Catalogue of the Accipitres, or diurnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British Museum. London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1874.

Catalogue of the Striges, or nocturnal birds of prey, in the collection of the British museum. London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1875.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Coliomorphae... London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1877.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.I... London: printed by order of the Trustees, n1879.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Cichlomorphae, pt.III-[IV]... London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1881-83.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.I... London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1885.

A monograph of the Hirundinidae, 1894.

A Monograph of The Alcedinidae, or Family of Kingfishers 1868 - 1871

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Fringilliformes, pt.III... London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1888.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum. Sturniformes... London: printed by order of the Trustees, sold by Longmans & co., 1890.

Catalogue of the Picariae in the collection of the British museum. Coraciae... London: printed by order of the Trustees, sold by Longmans & co., 1892.

Catalogue of the Fulicariae... and Alectorides... in the collection of the British museum. London: printed by order of the Trustees, sold by Longmans & co., 1894.

Catalogue of the Limicolae in the collection of the British museum. London: printed by order of the Trustees, sold by Longmans & co., 1896.

Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British museum... London: printed by order of the Trustees; sold by Longmans & co., 1898

External links

• http://www.thebowdlers.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/richard_bowdler_sharpe.htm
• http://www.audubon.co.uk/SharpeGallery1.htm [Images from the Monograph of The Alcedinidae]