Percy Lowe
Percy Roycroft Lowe (2 January 1870 – 18 August 1948) was an English
ornithologist
.
Life
Lowe was born at
OBE
in 1920.
Lowe worked with Dorothea Bate on fossil ostriches in China.[2]
In November 1919 he succeeded William Robert Ogilvie-Grant as Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum, retiring on his sixty-fifth birthday in 1935. He was succeeded by Norman Boyd Kinnear.
He was editor of the
birds in the British Isles.[3] His 1936 publication The finches of the Galapagos in relation to Darwin's conception of species introduced the term Darwin's finches.[4]
In 1939 he was elected a
British Ornithological Union[5]
Publications
- Lowe, P. R. (1911), A naturalist on desert islands, London: Witherby & Co
- Lowe, P. R. (1913), Our Common Sea-Birds, London: Country Life
- Lowe, P. R. (1936), "The finches of the Galapagos in relation to Darwin's conception of species",
Notes
- ^ The letter was signed:
- Desborough
- Hugh S. Gladstone
- Grey of Fallodon
- Julian S. Huxley (Chancellor of Oxford University)
- T. G Longstaff
- Percy R. Lowe
- P. Chalmers Mitchell
- Rothschild
- Scone M.P. (Chairman, British Trust for Ornithology)
- E. L. Turner
- H. F. Witherby (President, British Ornithologists' Union)
- ^ "Lowe, Percy Roycroft (LW887PR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Bate, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878-1951), palaeontologist by Karolyn Shindler in Dictionary of National Biography online (Retrieved 23 November 2007)
- ^ "Observers of Birds" (PDF). The Times. 1 July 1933.
- ^ Steinheimer 2004, p. 300
Lack 1940 - ^ "Medals and Awards". British Ornithological Union. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
References
- doi:10.1038/146324a0
- Steinheimer, F. D. (2004), "Charles Darwin's bird collection and ornithological knowledge during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836", Journal of Ornithology, vol. 145, no. 4, pp. 300–320, , retrieved 8 December 2008
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