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Sherborn: Evenhuis - Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer’s Club
The document discusses Charles Davies Sherborn and his contributions to indexing and bibliography, highlighting how indexers provide valuable services despite often being underappreciated. It showcases influential figures in the field, including leaders before and after Sherborn, and outlines his personal background and extensive works related to bibliographies and indexes over many decades. Furthermore, it emphasizes Sherborn's meticulous work on the Index Animalium and its significance in zoological literature.
Sherborn: Evenhuis - Charles Davies Sherborn and The Indexer’s Club
- 4. Charles Davies Sherborn andthe Indexer’s Club A passion addiction obsession for list-making
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- 7. The Indexer’s Club •What is an indexer / list-maker? – Masochist? – Socially inept? – Obsessive / Compulsive? – Facilitator! • Giving order to unordered or chaotic sets of items • Products from work are called “references” and “finding aids” • We perform an often thankless service to others at little benefit to ourselves
- 8. The Indexer’s Club •Leaders / Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.*) – Kallimachos *Before Charles [Davies Sherborn]
- 9. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Roget The Indexer’s Club
- 10. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Franklin The Indexer’s Club
- 11. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Agassiz 1842–1846 1848–1854 The Indexer’s Club
- 12. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Coues 1878–1880 “Bibliography is a necessary nuisance and horrible drudgery that no mere drudge could perform. It takes a sort of inspired idiot to be a good bibliographer ...” The Indexer’s Club
- 13. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Coues 1878–1880 “ ... and his inspiration is as dangerous a gift as the appetite of the gambler or dipsomaniac—it grows with what it feeds upon, and finally possesses its victim like any other invincible vice.” The Indexer’s Club
- 14. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspirations (B.C.) – Scudder 1882–1884 The Indexer’s Club
- 15. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.*) – Richmond * After [Charles] Davies [Sherborn] The Indexer’s Club
- 16. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.) – Mathews 1925 The Indexer’s Club
- 17. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.) – Schultze 1926–1954 The Indexer’s Club
- 18. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.) – Neave 1939–1940 The Indexer’s Club
- 19. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.) – Eschmeyer 1990 The Indexer’s Club
- 20. • Leaders /Founders / ? Inspired (A.D.) – Thompson 1999–date The Indexer’s Club
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- 22. • Early Life St.Luke’s, Chelsea Sherborn Background
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- 24. • Mid Life Age25 Age 32 Age 34 Sherborn Background
- 25. • Later inLife Age 65 Age 74 Sherborn Background
- 26. • Home Life(49 Peterborough Rd.) Sherborn Background
- 27. • Home Life(49 Peterborough Rd.) Sherborn Background
- 28. • Home Life(49 Peterborough Rd.) Sherborn Background
- 29. Sherborn Works • Bibliographies •Catalogues • Indexes • Dating
- 30. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1888 Sherborn Works
- 31. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1890 Sherborn Works
- 32. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1893–1896 Sherborn Works
- 33. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1902 Sherborn Works
- 34. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1922–1933 Sherborn Works
- 35. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1891 Sherborn Works
- 36. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating 1936 Sherborn Works
- 37. Sherborn Tidbits • Bibliographies •Catalogues • Indexes • Dating “The systematist requires certain tools for his work, of which not the least important are good bibliographies and indexes.” –C.D. Sherborn quoted in “Squire”, p. 49
- 38. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating Sherborn’s unending quest for books ended up helping not only “build” the library of the Natural History Museum, but make it in many cases the only place or one of only a few places one can find a copy of a rare book on zoology. Sherborn Tidbits
- 39. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating Timeline for Index Animalium I - began work in 1890 - published in October 1902 Sherborn Tidbits
- 40. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating Timeline for Index Animalium II - began work in 1902? - last part published in July 1933 Total time spent indexing animal names from 1758 to 1850: 43 years Sherborn Tidbits
- 41. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating The rarity of errors in the Index Animalium is a testament to the thoroughness of the 11 years of constant proofreading of Sherborn However, there is one name omission from a book he did see that is worthy of note ... There are some names omitted and these are virtually all from works he did not see and also include subspecies he tended to ignore Sherborn Tidbits
- 42. • Bibliographies • Catalogues •Indexes • Dating The work: Macquart (1834) “Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Diptères.” The name: Laphria limbata Macquart Sherborn Tidbits
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- 48. Sherborn and OurFuture
- 49. Sherborn and OurFuture • Leaders / Founders / ?Inspirations – Neave
- 50. • Leaders /Founders / ?Inspirations – Neave Sherborn and Our Future
- 51. • Leaders /Founders / ?Inspirations – Eschmeyer Sherborn and Our Future
- 52. • Leaders /Founders / ?Inspirations – Eschmeyer Sherborn and Our Future
- 53. • Leaders /Founders / ?Inspirations – Thompson Sherborn and Our Future
- 54. • Leaders /Founders / ?Inspirations – Thompson Sherborn and Our Future
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