Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock | |
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| Born | 4 March 1863 |
| Died | 9 August 1947 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | Natural History Museum, London, London Zoo |
Reginald Innes Pocock
zoologist.[2]
Pocock was born in
Nandinia as its sole member. He argued that it differs from the Aeluroidea by the structure and shape of its ear canal and mastoid part of the temporal bone.[5]
In 1904, he left to become superintendent of the London Zoo, remaining so until his retirement in 1923. He then worked, as a voluntary researcher, in the British Museum, in the mammals department.
He described the
W. S. Millard, the secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society
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His brother Edward Innes Pocock played international rugby for Scotland and was part of Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column. His great grandfather was marine artist Captain Nicholas Pocock.
Selected works
- Pocock, R. I. (1893). "On some points in the morphology of the Arachnida (s.s) with notes on the classification of the group". .
- Pocock, R. I. (1900). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
- Pocock, R. I. (1901). "Some new and old genera of South American Aviculariidae". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 8 (48): 540–555. .
- Pocock, R. I. (1902). "Arachnida. Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae". Biologia Centrali-Americana: zoology, botany and archaeology. London: R. H. Porter.
- Pocock, R. I. (1903). "On some genera and species of South-American Aviculariidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7. 11 (61): 81–115. .
- Pocock, R. I. (1917). "The Classification of existing Felidae". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8. XX: 329–350. .
- Pocock, R. I. (1930). "The Panthers and Ounces of Asia". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 34 (1): 65–82.
- Pocock, R. I. (1932). "The marbled, Pardofelis marmorata, cat and some other Oriental species, with a definition of a new genus of the Felidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 102 (3): 741–766. .
- Pocock, R. I. (1939). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma – Mammalia. Volume 1, Primates and Carnivora. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
- Pocock, R. I. (1940). "Description of a new race of puma (Puma concolor), with a note on an abnormal tooth growth in the genus". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11. VI: 307–313. .
- Pocock, R. I. (1941). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma – Mammalia. Volume 2, Carnivora: Aeluroidea, Arctoidea. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
- Pocock, R. I. (1951). Catalogue of the Genus Felis. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
References
- S2CID 161865216.
- JSTOR 1375287.
- PMID 17163800.
- ^ Jan Ove Rein (2012). "Bothriuridae Simon, 1880". The Scorpion Files. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ "The Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol-iv". 1768.
External links
- Works by or about Reginald Innes Pocock at Internet Archive
- Works by Reginald Innes Pocock, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
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