Hugh Scott (entomologist)

Hugh Scott FRS (16 September 1885 – 1 November 1960) was a British entomologist and biogeographer.

Scott was educated privately and as an exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read the natural sciences tripos.[1] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941. He worked as curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and as assistant keeper in the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).

He was a close friend and coworker of G. Evelyn Hutchinson.[2]

Taxa named after him include:

References

  1. ↑ Britton, E. B. (24 December 1960). "Dr. Hugh Scott, F.R.S." Obituaries. Nature. 188 (4756): 1070–1071. Bibcode:1960Natur.188.1070B. doi:10.1038/1881070a0.
  2. ↑ Slack, Nancy G. (2011). G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology. Yale University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-300-16174-8. JSTOR j.ctt5vkzz7.
  3. 1 2 Breuning, Stephan (1939). "Novae species Cerambycidarum VII" (PDF). Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstage von Professor Dr. Embrik Strand. Vol. 5. Riga. pp. 144–290. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 September 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Knisch, Alfred (1922). "Hugoscottia, eine neue Helocharengattung. (Col. Hydrophilidae Op. 12.)" (PDF). Entomologischer Anzeiger. 2 (8): 90.

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