Edward Turner Bennett (6 January 1797 – 21 August 1836) was an English

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and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett.Bennett, Edward Turner (1797-1836), zoologist
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online (accessed 21 July 2008) Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a

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, but his chief pursuit was always zoology. In 1822, he attempted to establish an entomological society, which later became a zoological society in connection with the

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. This in turn became the starting point of the

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, of which Bennett was Secretary from 1831 to 1836.Mullens, W. H., and H. Kirke Swann
''A Bibliography of British Ornithology from the Earliest Times to the End of 1912''.
London, England: Macmillan, 1917. (Accessed on 5/10/2014.) His works included ''The Tower Menagerie'' (1829) and ''The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society'' (1831). He also wrote, in conjunction with George Tradescant Lay, the section on Fishes in the ''Zoology of Beechey's Voyage'' (1839). In 1835, he described a new species of African crocodile, '' Mecistops leptorhynchus'', the validity of which was confirmed in 2018.

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Edward Turner Bennett

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* * * * Bennett, Edward Turner (1830–31
''The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society..., two volumes''
1797 births 1836 deaths English zoologists Secretaries of the Zoological Society of London People from Hackney Central {{UK-zoologist-stub