Malcolm Burr
English author & entomologist (1878-1954)
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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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| Born | 6 July 1878 Blackheath, London, England |
| Died | 13 July 1954 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | Radley College, New College, Oxford |
| Known for | Dermaptera, Orthoptera |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology |
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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1913), Orthoptères. Catalogue Systématique et descriptif des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps (in French), Brussels, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.9186, OCLC 9605023, OL 23323929M, Wikidata Q51515400
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - 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)