Malcolm Burr

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]

Dr

Malcolm Burr
Born(1878-07-06)6 July 1878
Blackheath, London, England
Died13 July 1954(1954-07-13) (aged 76)
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma materRadley College, New College, Oxford
Known forDermaptera, Orthoptera
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology

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
  • Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1910). "Dermaptera (Earwigs)". The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London: Taylor and Francis. doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.8271. LCCN 10011886. OCLC 6081949. OL 7018915M. Wikidata Q51462985.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Burr, Malcolm, 1878-1954 (1913), Orthoptères. Catalogue Systématique et descriptif des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps (in French), City of Brussels, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.9186, OCLC 9605023, OL 23323929M, Wikidata Q51515400{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Burr, Malcolm (1931). In Bolshevik Siberia, the land of ice and exile. London: H.F. & G. Witherby.
  • Burr, Malcolm (1933). A Fossicker in Angola.
  • Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition)

See also

References
  1. "Captain Malcolm Burr Chevalier Order of the White Eagle 5th Class". Hazelwood School War Memorial. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  2. Deborah Manley (2011). The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller's Anthology. Andrews UK Limited. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-908493-30-9.
  3. Holland, W. J. (1912). "Reviewed Work: Genera Insectorum by Malcolm Burr". Science. 36 (934): 716–717. doi:10.1126/science.36.934.716. JSTOR 1638103.
  4. Rehn, James A. G. (1917). "On Orthoptera from the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 43 (3): 335–363. JSTOR 25076975.
  5. Uvarov, B. P. (1954). "Dr. Malcolm Burr". Nature. 174 (4424): 294. Bibcode:1954Natur.174..294U. doi:10.1038/174294b0.
  6. Wijesekara, Anura; Wijesinghe, D.P (2003). "History of insect collection and a review of insect diversity in Sri Lanka". Ceylon Journal of Science. 31: 43–59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.379.2411.
  7. Nazaroff, Paul (2002). Hunted through Central Asia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280368-9. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. "Hazelwood School War Records". www.hambo.org. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
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