William Wardlaw Thompson

**William Wardlaw Thompson** (ụbọchị a mụrụ ya amaghị - nwụrụ na 1917) bụ ọkachamara n'ihe gbasara ichthy na anụmanụ na South Africa. A maara na ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na South Africa College dị na Cape Town n'agbata afọ 1858 n'afọ 1863, nakwa na o nwetara ọkwa ọrụ obodo nke Cape Colony n'afọ 1877 na Ngalaba Ụgbọ okporo ígwè dị ka odeakwụkwọ nwa oge. N'ọnwa Jenụwarị n'afọ 1878, o nwetara ọkwa odeakwụkwọ na Ngalaba Ọrụ Ọha, ebe a kwalitere ya na First Clerk n'afọ 1882. N'ọnwa Jenụwarị n'afọ 1885, e zigara ya n'ọkwa Chief Records Clerk na Crown Lands Office, e wee bulie ya elu n'ọnwa Julaị n'afọ 1889 na ọnwa Julaị n'afọ 1889 na mbụ odeakwụkwọ na Ngalaba Ọrụ Ugbo, wee nweta ọkwa onyeisi odeakwụkwọ ebe ahụ n'ọnwa Nọvemba n'afọ 1897. Tupu nke a, ọ gara ma gafere ule Iwu Ọrụ Obodo ya, o jekwara ozi na Duke nke Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles na Transkei n'oge Agha nke 9th Frontier n'ọnwa Febụwarị ruo ọnwa Mee n'afọ 1879 na na Basutoland na ọnwa Septemba n'afọ 1880 ruo ọnwa Maachị n'afọ 1881 n'oge Agha Egbe Basuto. A họpụtara Thompson na Cape Colony's Fisheries Board na ọnwa Ọktoba n'afọ 1897.  

N'afọ 1905, ọ hapụrụ ọrụ ụkọchukwu ya iji were ọnọdụ nke onye na-enyere onye na-ahụ maka ụmụ anụmanụ na Scotland bụ John D.F. Gilchrist aka, onye bụ onye na-amụ banyere ihe ndị dị ndụ na Cape Colony na onye nlekọta nsọpụrụ nke anụ ndị na-enweghị azụ n'ime mmiri na South African Museum. N'ime afọ iri sochirinụ, o nyere aka n'ọtụtụ akwụkwọ dị mkpa dị ka onye edemede Gilchrist. Ha jikọrọ aka mechaa ọmụmụ nke azụ Klip nke ezinụlọ Blenniidae n'afọ 1907. Nke a dabeere na nnukwu nchịkọta nke ihe atụ ndị South African Museum's aquarium nwetara na St James, Cape Town. E bipụtara nsonaazụ ọmụmụ a dị ka "The Blenniidae of South Africa" 1908 na Akụkụ nke 2 nke Mpịakọta nke 6 nke Annals of the South African Museum na afọ abụọ mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị Gilchrist na Thompson jikọrọ aka wepụta akwụkwọ na "The Cape Klipfishes" na nnọkọ kwa afọ nke South African Association for the Advancement of Science . 

Ọzọkwa n'afọ 1907 Gilchrist na Thompson malitere ịchịkọta ndepụta nkọwa nke azụ mmiri nke Natal ma bipụta nke a dị ka "Nkọwa nke azụ si n'ụsọ oké osimiri Natal", karịa akụkụ anọ, kwa na Annals of the South African Museum n'etiti afọ 1908 na afọ 1914 wee gaa na peeji 190. Ha bipụtakwara nkọwa ndị ahụ na Annals of the Durban Museum n'etiti afọ 1914 n'afọ 1917 nke akpọrọ "A catalogue of the sea fishes recorded from Natal". N'afọ 1916, ha kọwakwara ụdị azụ ọhụrụ anọ nke South Africa na Marine Biological Report (No. 3) nke Gilchrist chịkọtara. Gilchrist na Thompson bụ ndị na-amụ banyere ụmụ anụmanụ na South Africa mbụ na-amụ maka anụmanụ mmiri dị ọcha nke South Africa na idepụta ndepụta zuru oke. N'afọ 1911, ha kọwara ụdị azụ mmiri dị ọcha atọ na Annals and Magazine of Natural History, na katalọgụ ha, The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa gụnyere ihe osise 200, e bipụtara ya n'akụkụ atọ na Mpịakọta 11 akụkụ 5-7 nke Annals of the South African Museum n'etiti afọ 1913 n'afọ 1918.

Thompson dere akwụkwọ akpọrọ The sea fisheries of the Cape Colony from Van Riebeeck's days to the eve of the Union nke e bipụtara n'afọ 1913, nke a gụnyere isiakwụkwọ gbasara ịkụ azụ whale na seal, trout na azụ mmiri ndị ọzọ, na oysters. Ọ bụ onye otu Zoological Society nke London na Linnean Society, ọ bụ otu n'ime ndị guzobere South African Association for the Advancement of Science n'afọ 1902 ma site n'afọ 1910 ọ bụ onye otu Royal Society of South Africa.

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