Malcolm Burr

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Malcolm Burr
Born(1878-07-06)6 July 1878
Died13 July 1954(1954-07-13) (aged 76)
Alma mater Radley College, New College, Oxford
Known forDermaptera, Orthoptera
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

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]

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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]

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References

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  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 .
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  8. "Hazelwood School War Records". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.