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{{Short description|Australian zoologist}}
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'''Edward Pierson Ramsay''' {{small|[[FRSE]] FLS LLD}} (3 December 1842 – 16 December 1916) was an
==Early life==
==Career==
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In 1883 Ramsay traveled to [[London]] to attend the International Fisheries Exhibition. At that time he met Military Surgeon [[Francis Day]] who had collected fishes over several decades in India, Burma, Malaysia and other areas in southern Asia. Ramsay negotiated purchase a portion of Day's collection, including about 150 of Day's type specimens.
Presumably during the same trip to Britain he visited [[Edinburgh]], as he was elected an Ordinary Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (requiring his physical presence) in April 1884. His proposers were [[John Murray (oceanographer)|Sir John Murray]], [[William Turner (anatomist)|Sir William Turner]], [[James Geikie]] and [[William Carmichael McIntosh]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0
==Late life==
After his resignation as Curator, Ramsay served the Australian Museum as "consulting ornithologist" until 1909. He died on 16 December 1916
==Taxa described by him==
Among organisms Ramsay described are:
*the [[pig-nosed turtle]] (''Carettochelys insculpta'') *the [[giant bandicoot]] (''Peroryctes broadbenti'' *the [[grey-headed robin]] (''Heteromyias cinereifrons'') *The *[[Papuan king parrot]] (''Alisterus chloropterus'') == Taxa named in his honor ==
Ramsay is commemorated in the [[Binomial nomenclature|scientific names]] of two species of Australian snakes, ''[[Aspidites ramsayi]]'' and ''[[Austrelaps ramsayi]]''.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Ramsay", p. 216).</ref>
The Spotted grubfish ''[[Parapercis ramsayi]]'' is believed to be named after him.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/uranoscopiformes/ | title = Order URANOSCOPIFORMES: PINGUIPEDIDAE, CHEIMARRICHTHYIDAE, AMMODYTIDAE and URANOSCOPIDAE | access-date= 9 March 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}</ref>
[[Ramsayornis]] is a [[Meliphagidae|meliphagid]] genus which is named after him. It contains two species:
* [[Bar-breasted Honeyeater]] ''Ramsayornis fasciatus'' <small>([[John Gould|Gould]], 1843)</small>
* [[Brown-backed Honeyeater]] ''Ramsayornis modestus'' <small>([[George Robert Gray|Gray, GR]], 1858)</small>
==References==
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*{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Edward Pierson|Last=Ramsay|shortlink=0-dict-biogR.html#ramsay1}}
*[http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/about/research/ramsay.htm Australian Museum Ramsay page]
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{{s-ttl | title = Curator,<br>[[Australian Museum|The Australian Museum]],<br>[[Sydney|Sydney, New South Wales]] | years = 1874–1895}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Robert Etheridge, Junior|Robert Etheridge Jr.]]<br>(1895–1919)}}
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[[Category:1842 births]]
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[[Category:19th-century Australian zoologists]]
[[Category:Colony of New South Wales people]]
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[[Category:People educated at The King's School, Parramatta]]
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