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1798-1864
William Charles Linnaeus Martin was an English naturalist. He was the son of English naturalist and palaeontologist William Martin (1767-1810), who named him after the taxonomist Carl Linnaeus. Martin was the curator of the ZSL Museum from 1830-1839. After this he was a prolific natural history writer, authoring many books and articles. Forty-five of his papers appear in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society.