John Cranch (1785–1816) was an English naturalist and explorer. [1]
John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends [2] - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the River Congo, and died there. [3]
His friend William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition. [3] These include for example the marine isopod crustacean Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818. [4]
John Cranch (1785–1816) was an English naturalist and explorer. [1]
John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends [2] - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the River Congo, and died there. [3]
His friend William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition. [3] These include for example the marine isopod crustacean Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818. [4]