J. Lewis Bonhote
John Lewis James Bonhote (born June 13, 1875 in London , † October 10, 1922 in Bournemouth , Dorset ) was a British zoologist , ornithologist and author . In his publications he mainly used the name J. Lewis Bonhote .
Life
Bonhote was the only son of Colonel John Bonhote. After attending the Elstree School, he graduated from Harrow School from 1889 to 1893 . In June 1893 he enrolled at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1897 and a Master of Arts in 1901 . In 1897 he became the private secretary of Governor Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter in the Bahamas , where he collected birds and spiders in his spare time. From 1901 to 1902 he continued this collecting activity during a second trip to the Bahamas.
In 1894 he was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and in 1898 a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London . In 1901 he took part in a collective expedition to the Malay Archipelago . In the following years he described some small mammal species from this region, including Coelops robinsoni , Maxomys inas , Niviventer bukit , Niviventer huang , Niviventer ling , Niviventer rapit , Sundamys annandalei , Rhinolophus malayanus and Sundasciurus tahan . In 1907 he was the first to describe the dwarf loris ( Nycticebus pygmaeus ). In 1909 he and Michael John Nicoll described the subspecies Passer domesticus niloticus of the house sparrow . From 1913 to 1919 he was a curator at the Giza Zoological Garden. During this time he undertook collective expeditions to the Nile Delta , where he a. a. played a major role in the establishment of a heron colony . Together with Ernst Hartert he was secretary at the 4th International Ornithological Congress, which took place in London in 1905. He was also secretary and treasurer of the Avicultural Society , from 1907 to 1913 secretary of the British Ornithologists 'Union and from 1920 to 1922 secretary and treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Club .
In addition to several scientific articles, Bonhote published the book Birds of Britain and their Eggs in 1907 , which was illustrated by Henry Eeles Dresser , and in 1915 the work Vigor and Heredity . In collaboration with Charles Rothschild , he brought out the book Harrow Butterflies and Moths in 1895 .
In his home in The Hall, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire , Bonhote maintained a very large private aviary, where he among other ducks hybrid bred.
Bonhote died in October 1922 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery , London.
Dedication names
Richard Bowdler Sharpe named the subspecies Papilio andraemon bonhotei from the family of the knight butterfly family (Papilionidae) from the Bahamas after Bonhote in 1900 . Herbert Christopher Robinson and Robert Charles Wroughton described the subspecies Callosciurus erythraeus bonhotei of the Pallas squirrel in 1911 . In 1919 Oldfield Thomas described the taxon Gerbillus bonhotei from Egypt , which is now synonymous with the Anderson gerbil ( Gerbillus andersoni ).
literature
- Philip Lutley Sclater : Biographical Notes of the Original Members of the British Ornithologist's Union, […] in The Ibis 1908, Vol. 2, Anniversary Supplement, ninth delivery, London 1909, pp. 230f, ( digitized version )
- Claude Buchanan Ticehurst: Obituary. John Lewis James Bonhote . British Birds 16 (8), 1923, pp. 224-225
- Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 50; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonhote, J. Lewis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonhote, John Lewis James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English zoologist, ornithologist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1922 |
| Place of death | Bournemouth , Dorset |