Guy Dollman

John Guy Dollman (born September 4, 1886 in Acton , Middlesex , † March 21, 1942 in Basingstoke , Hampshire ), better known by his nickname Guy Dollman , was a British mammalogist and taxonomist . He was a member of the Linnean Society of London (FLS).

Life

Dollman was the eldest son of the British painter John Charles Dollman (1851-1934). His brother Hereward Chune Dollman (1888-1919) was an entomologist who died of sleeping sickness when he was only 30 years old . His two sisters, Mary and Ruth, were born in 1883 and 1885. Guy Dollman was educated at St Paul's School in London and studied with the help of a scholarship at St John's College in Cambridge , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts. In 1907, while still a student, he was employed at the Department of Zoology at the British Museum of Natural History , where he was curator of mammals for much of his life. During an expedition in Indochina he discovered the Tonkin blunt nose , which he first described in 1912 .

In 1915 he joined the British Army , where he served as a bomb officer in the 19th London Regiment and the 2nd London Reserve Brigade. Since he was injured in a bombing accident, he did not fight in the First World War . In 1916 he married Ethel V. Holloway.

In 1919 he continued his work at the British Museum, where he took over the arrangement of the exhibition galleries. For example, he initiated a habitat group with African elephants in the central hall of the museum. He grouped three elephants - bull, cow and cub - and painted the background scenery, which represents the Knysna Forest , the natural habitat of the elephants. In 1933 he was a member of the advisory board of the British delegation to the International Conference for the Preservation of the Flora and Fauna of Africa (London Convention of 1993), which was described as the "high point of institutionalized worldwide nature conservation before the Second World War". Dollman was involved in the decisions that led to the full or partial protection of certain animal species.

He traveled and wrote a lot with Walter Rothschild . Common writings include New mammals from Dutch New Guinea , published in 1932, and a book on tree kangaroos called The Genus Dendrolagus from 1936.

Dollman was a good artist whose drawings are shown at the Royal Academy of Arts . He also illustrated several of his own scientific writings.

Dollman described numerous new animal species from South America, Africa, Southeast Asia and New Guinea, including several shrew and rodent species, but also marsupials and primates. These include Bates shrew ( Crocidura batesi ), the Black-headed Nachtaffe ( Aotus nigriceps ), the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo ( Dendrolagus mayri ), Christy's Dormouse ( Graphiurus christyi ) that Rudd's Mouse ( Uranomys Ruddi ), the Fox musk shrew ( Crocidura foxi ), the great bush mouse ( Grammomys gigas ) and the Dollman tree mouse ( Prionomys batesi ).

Dedication names

The rodent species Otomys dollmani , Maxomys dollmani and Melomys dollmani are named after Dollman .

Fonts (selection)

• A History of British Mammals ; Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton, Guy Dollman, Martin Alister Campbell Hinton and Edward Adrian Wilson (1910)
• A new Elephant Shrew from Zanzibar ; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8th Series, Vol. X, (1912)
• On the African Shrews belonging to the Genus Crocidura ; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8th series (1915 & 1916).
• Catalog of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History) ; Longmans, Green and Co., (1921) Online
• Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family (Equidæ) Exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) , 2nd edition; Lydekker, Richard, & Dollman, Guy; published on behalf of the Trustees (1922)
• Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights, and Horn & Tusk Measurements by Rowland Ward , John Guy Dollman, JB Burlace; Rowland Ward Ltd. (1922)
• Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World, & c . by Rowland Ward, JB Burlace, John Guy Dollman (1922)
• The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet 2nd edition. by Richard Lydekker, revised by John Guy Dollman; published by Rowland Ward, (1924)
• The Game Animals of Africa by Richard Lydekker, John Guy Dollman, published by R. Ward, (1926) 2nd edition (revised by Dollman), London
• A new race of Arabian Gazelle . Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1927)
• Game animals of the Empire (1932)
• Mammals collected by Lord Cranbrook and Captain F. Kingdon Ward in Upper Burma . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1932)
• New mammals from Dutch New Guinea . Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 353, 13-16; Rothschild, Lord Walter & Dollman, G. (1932).
• On mammals collected in Dutch New Guinea by Mr. F. Shaw Mayer in 1930 . Rothschild, Lord Walter & Dollman, G. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1932), 211-219. (1933).
• Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game edited by JB Burlace, Guy Dollman; published by Rowland Ward, 10th edition (1935)
• The genus Dendrolagus (Tree Kangaroos) ; Rothschild, Walter and Dollman, Guy, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 21, 477-551 (1936).
• African Antelopes ; Supplement to the Journal of the Royal African Society Vol. XXXV, No. CXLI; Macmillan and co, (1936)
• The Basenji Dog . Journal of the Royal African Society. 36 (CXLII): 148-149 (1937)

literature

• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , p. 113.
• Terry Barringer, Carole Holden: Images of Africa: the pictorial record: papers presented at the SCOLMA Conference, London, June 9-10, 1994 Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa, November 1, 1995, p. 53

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward I. Steinhart: Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya (=  Eastern African studies ). James Currey Publishers, Oxford 2006, ISBN 0-85255-960-7 , pp. 180 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).