Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald
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Leslie Desmond Edward Foster-Vesey-Fitzgerald MBE (born 9 June 1909 in London, UK; died 3 May 1974 in Nairobi, Kenya), was an Irish-born[clarification needed] entomologist, ornithologist, conservationist, and plant collector.
In 1930 Vesey-Fitzgerald graduated to
From 1941 to 1942 he served with the Federal Malay States Volunteers. From 1942 to 1947 he worked as entomologist at the Middle East Anti Locust Unit in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Oman. From 1947 to 1949 he was senior assistant game warden in Kenya. From 1949 to 1964 he worked as Senior Scientific Officer at the Anti-Locust Research Centre in Abercorn, Northern Rhodesia. .
In 1964 he became an ecologist and conservationist in the National parks of Tanzania where he experimented with an electric fence in the
Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) from the Seychelles is named in his honour.[1]
Selected works
- 1940: On the Vegetation of Seychelles
- 1955: The Vegetation of the Outbreak Areas of the Red Locust (Nomadacris Septemfasciata Serv.) in Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia
- 1955: Vegetation of the Red Sea coast south of Jedda, Saudi-Arabia. Journal of Ecology 43:477-489
- 1957: The Vegetation of the Red Sea coast north of Jedda. Saudi Arabia. Journal of Ecology 45:547-562.
- 1957: The vegetation of Central and Eastern Arabia. Journal of Ecology 45_779-798
- 1958: The Snakes of Northern Rhodesia and the Tanganyika Borderlands Brown Knight & Truscott London
- 1963: Annotated List of Grasses Collected in the Congo Drainage Basin of Northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika
- 1963: Central African Grasslands
- 1973: East African Grasslands East African Pub. House
References
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Vesey-Fitzgerald", p. 275).
Further reading
- Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters, and Garden Designers. Revised and Completely Updated Edition. London: Taylor & Francis. 900 pp. ISBN 0-85066-843-3