Malcolm Burr Explained
| Malcolm Burr |
| Honorific Prefix: | Dr |
| Birth Date: | 6 July 1878 |
| Birth Place: | Blackheath, London, England |
| Death Place: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Fields: | Entomology |
| Alma Mater: | Radley College, New College, Oxford |
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| Known For: | Dermaptera, Orthoptera |
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Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954)[1] was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist. He taught English at the School of Economics in Istanbul, and spent most of his life in Turkey.[2]
Life
Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera).[3] [4] He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs,[5] and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901.[6]
He also met and befriended the White émigré Paul Nazaroff, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including Hunted through Central Asia).[7]
Private life
He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters, Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another.[8]
Bibliography
- Book: Burr, Malcolm. In Bolshevik Siberia, the land of ice and exile. London. H.F. & G. Witherby. 1931.
- Book: Burr, Malcolm. A Fossicker in Angola. 1933.
- Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition)
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Notes and References
- Web site: Captain Malcolm Burr Chevalier Order of the White Eagle 5th Class. Hazelwood School War Memorial. 15 January 2017.
- Book: Deborah Manley. The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller's Anthology. 2011. Andrews UK Limited. 978-1-908493-30-9. 265.
- Reviewed Work: Genera Insectorum by Malcolm Burr. W. J.. Holland. Science. 36. 934 . 1912. 716–717. 1638103. 10.1126/science.36.934.716.
- Rehn. James A. G.. On Orthoptera from the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 43. 3. 1917. 335–363. 25076975.
- Uvarov. B. P.. Dr. Malcolm Burr. Nature. 1954. 174. 4424. 294. 10.1038/174294b0. 1954Natur.174..294U. free.
- History of insect collection and a review of insect diversity in Sri Lanka . Ceylon Journal of Science . 31. 2003. 43–59 . Wijesekara, Anura . Wijesinghe, D.P . 10.1.1.379.2411.
- Book: Hunted through Central Asia. 978-0-19-280368-9. 2 January 2022. Nazaroff. Paul. 2002. Oxford University Press .
- Web site: Hazelwood School War Records. www.hambo.org. 2020-03-01.
