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2 unusual facts about Edgar Ravenswood Waite


Edgar Ravenswood Waite

Waite accompanied Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum on the 1896 Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society under Professor William Sollas and Professor Edgeworth David.

Following the expedition to Funafuti in the Ellice Islands (now know as Tuvalu) Waite published an account of The mammals, reptiles, and fishes of Funafuti.


Coffin ray

In 1902, Edgar Ravenswood Waite proposed Hypnarce as a replacement name for Hypnos, which he believed was preoccupied by the butterfly genus Hypna.


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