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T. W. Wood (born Thomas Wood, summer 1839 – c. 1910) was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He studied the courtship display behaviour of pheasants, observing them closely and publishing the first description of the double-banded argus pheasant. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals. — Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man — Alfred Russel Wallace: The Malay Archipelago

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  • T. W. Wood (born Thomas Wood, summer 1839 – c. 1910) was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He studied the courtship display behaviour of pheasants, observing them closely and publishing the first description of the double-banded argus pheasant. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals. Some new illustrations have been introduced, and four of the old drawings have been replaced by better ones, done from life by Mr. T. W. Wood. — Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man I also obtained one or two specimens of the fine racquet-tailed kingfisher of Amboyna, Tanysiptera nais, one of the most singular and beautiful of that beautiful family... They are confined to a very limited area, comprising the Moluccas, New Guinea and Northern Australia... The Amboynese species, of which a very accurate representation is here given, is one of the largest and handsomest. It is full seventeen inches long to the tips of the tail-feathers; the bill is coral red, the under- surface pure white, the back and wings deep purple, while the shoulders, head and nape, and some spots on the upper part of the back and wings, are pure azure blue; the tail is white, with the feathers narrowly blue-edged, but the narrow part of the long feathers is rich blue. This was an entirely new species, and has been well named after an ocean goddess, by Mr. R. G. Gray. — Alfred Russel Wallace: The Malay Archipelago (en)
  • Thomas W. Wood (Londra, giugno 1839 – Londra, 1910) è stato un illustratore e ornitologo inglese. Paradisea papuana (tratto da L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale). Realizzò accurati disegni che andarono ad abbellire alcune tra le più importanti opere di storia naturale del XIX secolo, come L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale di Charles Darwin e L'arcipelago malese di Alfred Russel Wallace. Si dedicò allo studio delle parate nuziali delle varie specie di fagiani, osservandole e descrivendole minuziosamente, e pubblicò la prima descrizione del misterioso argo doppiabanda. Nel corso della sua vita si dedicò prevalentemente all'illustrazione degli uccelli, ma disegnò anche falene e mammiferi. (it)
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  • Thomas Wood (en)
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  • Illustration by T. W. Wood of a bird, the racquet-tailed kingfisher, for Wallace's Malay Archipelago (en)
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  • Summer 1839 (en)
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  • Thomas Wood (en)
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  • in The Malay Archipelago (en)
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  • Illustrations in The Malay Archipelago, The Descent of Man (en)
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  • Thomas W. Wood (Londra, giugno 1839 – Londra, 1910) è stato un illustratore e ornitologo inglese. Paradisea papuana (tratto da L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale). Realizzò accurati disegni che andarono ad abbellire alcune tra le più importanti opere di storia naturale del XIX secolo, come L'origine dell'uomo e la selezione sessuale di Charles Darwin e L'arcipelago malese di Alfred Russel Wallace. Si dedicò allo studio delle parate nuziali delle varie specie di fagiani, osservandole e descrivendole minuziosamente, e pubblicò la prima descrizione del misterioso argo doppiabanda. Nel corso della sua vita si dedicò prevalentemente all'illustrazione degli uccelli, ma disegnò anche falene e mammiferi. (it)
  • T. W. Wood (born Thomas Wood, summer 1839 – c. 1910) was an English zoological illustrator responsible for the accurate drawings in major nineteenth century works of natural history including Darwin's The Descent of Man and Wallace's The Malay Archipelago. He studied the courtship display behaviour of pheasants, observing them closely and publishing the first description of the double-banded argus pheasant. He illustrated many books, often of birds but also of moths and mammals. — Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man — Alfred Russel Wallace: The Malay Archipelago (en)
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