Malcolm Burr

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Dr
Malcolm Burr
Born(1878-07-06)6 July 1878
Blackheath, London, England
Died13 July 1954(1954-07-13) (aged 76)
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma materRadley 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]

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)".
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  • Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1913), Orthoptères. Catalogue Systématique et descriptif des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps (in French), City of Brussels,
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  • 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. ISBN 978-1-908493-30-9
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  3. JSTOR 1638103
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  4. JSTOR 25076975
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  5. doi:10.1038/174294b0
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  6. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411
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  7. ISBN 978-0-19-280368-9
    . Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Hazelwood School War Records". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.

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