Abraham Dee Bartlett

Abraham became interested in animals a child and was allowed by his father's friend, Edward Cross, owner of the menagerie Exeter Exchange in the Strand, to make regular visits.

His taxidermy business near the British Museum was so successful that he was able to move to larger home, and towards the end of his life, he owned three houses.

[1] He became a member of the Zoological Society of London thanks to a physician named Anthony White who introduced him other others including William Yarrell, W. Ogilby, John Gould and D. W. Mitchell.

He associated himself with the Zoological Society and was offered the position of superintendent made vacant by the death of John Thompson at the garden in Regents Park in 1859.

He noted, for instance: "I asked Mr. Bartlett, of the Zoological Gardens, who has had very large experience with birds, whether the male tragopan (one of the Gallinaceae) was polygamous, and I was struck by his answering, 'I do not know, but I should think so from his splendid colours.

'"[3][4] When Darwin was studying the facial expressions of wild animals, he was introduced to the artistic and observational abilities of Joseph Wolf by Bartlett.

[6] A species of bird of paradise Paradisaea bartletti was named after Bartlett by William Goodwin in 1860 based on a female specimen.