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A George III mahogany carved secretaire cabinet
Footnotes
Provenance:
Charles Tate Regan (1873-1943). Thence by direct descent to his great great grandson, the current owner.
C.T.Regan, the renowned ichthyologist carried out extensive work on fish classification schemes. In 1901 he joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, becoming the Keeper of Zoology and then Director of the British Museum (Natural History) from 1927 to 1938. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.
According to family tradition C.T.Regan wrote the following ground-breaking publications seated at the above secretaire bookcase:
Regan, C.T. (1913) A revision of the cyprinodont fishes of the subfamily Poeciliinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1913(4): 977-1018.
Regan, C.T. 1920: The classification of the fishes of the family Cichlidae.--I. The Tanganyika genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 9) 5 (25): 33-53.
Regan, C.T. 1922: The classification of the fishes of the family Cichlidae.--II. On African and Syrian genera not restricted to the Great Lakes. Annals and magazine of natural history (9), 10: 249-264.
Regan, C.T. 1922: The cichlid fishes of Lake Nyassa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1921 (pt 4) (36): 675-727, Pls. 1-6.
The distinctive glazing bars relate to a design published by George Hepplewhite & Co. in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 3rd ed., 1794, pl.40.











