Joshua Brookes, by Thomas Phillips, 1815

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Joshua Brookes (November 24, 1761 – January 10, 1833) was a British anatomist and naturalist.

He studied under John Hunter in London. He became a teacher of anatomy in London, and the founder of the Brookesian Museum of Comparative Anatomy.

He became a member of the Royal Society in 1819. He found the genus of the cheetah in 1828 which was Acinonyx.

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