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Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector. Known professionally as R. B. Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin and on P. H. Gosse. He was “a meticulous scholar” and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.” "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R. B. Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of The Origin of Species", a reviewer wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, t

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rdfs:comment	Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector. Known professionally as R. B. Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin and on P. H. Gosse. He was “a meticulous scholar” and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.” "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R. B. Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of The Origin of Species", a reviewer wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, t (en)
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dct:subject	1915 births 1986 deaths 20th-century British zoologists Academics of University College London Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British Home Guard officers Charles Darwin biographers Members of the Order of the British Empire Bibliographers
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Book collector Home Guard (United Kingdom) Bibliography University College London University of London University of Toronto Robert Edmond Grant Member of the Order of the British Empire New York University Press The Origin of Species Magdalen College, Oxford Demyship Zoology Emily Bowes British Museum of Natural History 1915 births 1986 deaths 20th-century British zoologists Academics of University College London Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British Home Guard officers Charles Darwin biographers Members of the Order of the British Empire Bibliographers Alabama History of evolutionary biology Internet Archive Taxonomy (biology) Charles Darwin Zoologist Sotheby's Open Library WorldCat World War II Natural history Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) University of Toronto Library The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Times Literary Supplement P. H. Gosse US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Population
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://darwin-online.org.uk/ http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset%3FitemID=A1&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset%3Fviewtype=text&itemID=A27b&pageseq=1 http://www.worldcat.org/title/darwin-pedigrees/oclc/16648713&referer=brief_results http://www.worldcat.org/title/works-of-charles-darwin/oclc/15428884%3Freferer=di&ht=edition https://openlibrary.org/search%3Fq=r.+b.+freeman https://books.google.com/books/about/Philip_Henry_Gosse.html%3Fid=mChBAAAAMAAJ

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