Thommas
Pennant (14 Juni 1726 – 16 December 1798) adalah naturalis, penjelajah, penulis, dan pengoleksi peninggalan kuno dari Wales, Britania. Buku-bukunya yang populer termasuk British Zoology, History of Quadrupeds, Arctic Zoology, dan Indian Zoology, walaupun ia sebenarnya tidak pernah keluar dari Eropa. Dalam penjelajahannya ia dibantu pelayannya, Moses Griffith, yang menggambar hal-hal yang mereka temukan untuk kemudian dimasukkan ke dalam buku-buku karya
Pennant.
Referensi
Bewick,
Thomas (1797–1804). A History of British Birds. Newcastle: Beilby and Bewick.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "
Pennant,
Thomas". Encyclopædia Britannica (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press.
Cunningham, G.G. (1834). "
Thomas Pennant". Memoirs of Illustrious Englishmen. 6. hlm. 256–259. Diakses tanggal 11 April 2013.
Jardine, Sir William (1833). Ornithology: Humming-birds: Memoir of
Pennant. Edinburgh: Lizars, Stirling and Kenney.
Mabey, Richard (1986). Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne. Century Hutchinson. ISBN 0-7126-1794-9.
Medway, David G. (2011). "The contribution of
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh naturalist, to the Australian ornithology of Cook's first voyage (1768–1771)". Archives of Natural History. 38 (2): 278–286. doi:10.3366/anh.2011.0034.
Pennant,
Thomas (1798). The literary life of the late
Thomas Pennant, Esq. By himself. Benjamin and J. White.
Warwick William Wroth (1895). "
Pennant,
Thomas". Dalam Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
White, Gilbert (1789). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Benjamin White.
Withers, Charles W. J. (2004–13). "
Pennant,
Thomas (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Diakses tanggal 12 April 2013.
