Henry Horrocks Slater

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Henry Horrocks Slater (* 1851 in Stanhope , County Durham , England , † November 26, 1934 in Bishops Lydeard , England) was a British clergyman and naturalist. His main research interests were ornithology , entomology and botany .

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Pastor career

Slater was born in Stanhope to the priest Henry Slater and his wife Mary Sarah Horrocks. In 1870 he became Matricularius. After studying at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, he graduated in 1880 with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1887 with a Master of Arts. In 1879 he was ordained a deacon in Ripon. In 1881 he was ordained a priest. From 1879 to 1882 he was chaplain in Sharow (Ripon) and from 1882 to 1883 he was chaplain in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire. From 1883 to 1893 he was a pastor in Irchester. From 1893 to 1906 he was Reverend of Thornhaugh, Wansford, Northinghamshire.

Scientific activities and publications

In 1874 he accompanied the botanists Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853-1922) and George Gulliver (1804-1882) on board the HMS Shearwater on an expedition to observe the transit of Venus on the Mascarene island of Rodrigues on behalf of the Royal Society . In addition to studies of flora and fauna, Slater unearthed subfossil bones of extinct birds, including the Rodrigues solitaire ( Pezophaps solitaria ) and the Rodrigues star ( Necropsar rodericanus ). His notes were used by the zoologists Albert Günther and Alfred Newton for the first scientific description of the Rodrigues star in 1879. During a stay in Mauritius in 1875, he researched the flora , the herpetofauna and the water bird fauna together with George Gulliver . In 1885 he traveled to Iceland with Thomas Carter (1863-1931), about which he wrote the work Manual of the Birds of Iceland in 1901 . In 1897 Slater wrote the first scientific descriptions of the short-tailed parrot tit ( Paradoxornis davidianus ) and the gold-crowned warbler ( Phylloscopus ricketti ). Together with William Bernhardt Tegetmeier (1816-1912) and Frederick William Frohawk (1861-1946) he published in 1898 the fifth volume of the book series British Birds with their Nests and Eggs .

Memberships

In 1877 Slater was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London (FZS), where he resigned in 1906. He was also a member of the British Ornithologists' Union .

Works

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird ?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate , Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-300-10359-5
  • Anthony S. Cheke, Julian Hume: Lost Land of the Dodo. An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. T & AD Poyser, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7136-6544-4
  • Mullens, William Herbert & Swann, Harry Kirke (1917 / Reprint 1986): A Bibliography of British Ornithology . ISBN 0-85486-098-3
  • John Venn (University of Cambridge): Alumni cantabrigienses: A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900 , part 2, volume 5, University Press, 1954
  • Gregory Macalister Mathews: Obituary Henry H. Slater In: Ibis Volume 78, Issue 2, 1936 PDF, Online
personal data
SURNAME Slater, Henry Horrocks
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slater, Henry; Slater, HH; Slater, Henry H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English clergyman, ornithologist, entomologist, botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanhope , County Durham , England
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1934
Place of death Bishops Lydeard , England