Malcolm Burr

Dr Malcolm Burr
Born	(1878-07-06)6 July 1878 Blackheath, London, England
Died	13 July 1954(1954-07-13) (aged 76) Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater	Radley College, New College, Oxford
Known for	Dermaptera, Orthoptera
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology

Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954) ^[1] was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist. He taught English at the School of Economics in Istanbul, and spent most of his life in Turkey. ^[2]

Life

Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera). ^{[3] [4]} He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs, ^[5] and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901. ^[6]

He also met and befriended the White émigré Paul Nazaroff, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including Hunted through Central Asia). ^[7]

Private life

He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters, Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another. ^[8]

Bibliography

• Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1910). "Dermaptera (Earwigs)". The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . London: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.8271. LCCN   10011886. OCLC   6081949. OL   7018915M. Wikidata   Q51462985.
• Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1913), Orthoptères. Catalogue Systématique et descriptif des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps (in French), City of Brussels, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.9186, OCLC   9605023, OL   23323929M, Wikidata   Q51515400
• Burr, Malcolm (1931). In Bolshevik Siberia, the land of ice and exile. London: H.F. & G. Witherby.
• Burr, Malcolm (1933). A Fossicker in Angola.
• Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition)

See also

• Epilandex burri , a species of earwig named after Burr
• List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1910–14)

References

1. "Captain Malcolm Burr Chevalier Order of the White Eagle 5th Class". Hazelwood School War Memorial. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
2. Deborah Manley (2011). The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller's Anthology. Andrews UK Limited. p. 265. ISBN   978-1-908493-30-9.
3. Holland, W. J. (1912). "Reviewed Work: Genera Insectorum by Malcolm Burr". Science. 36 (934): 716–717. doi:10.1126/science.36.934.716. JSTOR   1638103.
4. Rehn, James A. G. (1917). "On Orthoptera from the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 43 (3): 335–363. JSTOR   25076975.
5. Uvarov, B. P. (1954). "Dr. Malcolm Burr". Nature. 174 (4424): 294. Bibcode:1954Natur.174..294U. doi: 10.1038/174294b0 .
6. Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P (2003). "History of insect collection and a review of insect diversity in Sri Lanka". Ceylon Journal of Science. 31: 43–59. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.379.2411 .
7. Nazaroff, Paul (2002). Hunted through Central Asia. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-280368-9 . Retrieved 2 January 2022.
8. "Hazelwood School War Records". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

External links

• Malcolm Burr at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Works by or about Malcolm Burr at the Internet Archive