Herbert Christopher Robinson

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Herbert Christopher Robinson (born November 4, 1874 in Liverpool , † June 1929 in Oxford ) was a British zoologist and ornithologist . He is best known for initiating and contributing to the important ornithological work The Birds of the Malay Peninsula .

Life

Robinson was born in Liverpool. His large families were mostly lawyers and other academics. He studied at Marlborough College but did not graduate for health reasons. A planned expedition to New Guinea to collect specimen copies there also had to be canceled for health reasons. He first worked at the World Museum Liverpool and was there with Henry Ogg Forbes before he went to Malaysia as a public service employee and took over the management of museums there. He was initially stationed in Selangor from 1903 to 1926 and only returned to Great Britain in 1920. From 1908 onwards, Cecil Boden was Klossat the museum in Kuala Lumpur .

Herbert Christopher Robinson retired in 1926 and began to work on a comprehensive work on the avifauna of the Malay Peninsula. He edited the first two volumes of this work and had largely completed the manuscript for the third volume before he died in a nursing home in Oxford at the beginning of 1929. The ultimately five-volume work on the avifauna of Malaysia was ultimately completed by other authors. One of the participants was Frederick Nutter Chasen .

Publications (selection)

  • Herbert Christopher Robinson, Cecil Boden Kloss: Nine new oriental birds . In: Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums . tape 10 , no. 3 , 1921, pp. 203-206 ( online [accessed March 17, 2017]).
  • Herbert Christopher Robinson, Cecil Boden Kloss: On Birds from South Annan and Cochin China . In: The Ibis (=  11 ). tape 1 , no. 22 , 1911, pp. 392–453 ( online [accessed March 17, 2017]).

Single receipts

  1. ^ Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1932. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Obituary in the ornithological magazine Emu , accessed on March 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Herbert Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH June 1929
Place of death Oxford