Reginald Innes Pocock

Reginald Innes Pocock ( born March 4, 1863 in Clifton (Bristol ); † August 9, 1947 in London) was a British zoologist and Arachnologe.

Life and work

Pocock studied zoology among professors Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936) and William Johnson Sollas (1849-1936) at the University College of Bristol. In 1885 he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum in London. He was responsible for the collection of tarantulas ( Theraphosidae ) and centipedes ( Myriapoda ). From 1904 until his retirement in 1923, he was head of the London Zoo. Then Pocock worked as a volunteer scientists in the Division of Mammals in the British Museum.

On 1 July 1889 he married Constance Osborne. Together they had five children; the first four, one daughter and three sons, but died in infancy. About the fourth son, Constantine Innes Pocock, little is known.

On 4 May 1911, Pocock Member ( "Fellow" ) of the Royal Society.

Works

• Catalogue of the genus Felis. London 1951 p. m.
• Mammalia. Taylor & Francis, London 1939-41.
• Arachnida. Taylor & Francis, London, 1900.
• The highest Andes. Methuen, London, 1899.
• Natural history. Appleton, New York 1897.
• Through unknown African countries. Arnold, London 1897.
• Chilopoda, Diplopoda and Symphala from the Malay Archipelago. In 1894.
• Report upon the julidae, chordeumidae and polyzonidae. Genoa 1893.
• Description of a New Species of Polydesmus from Liguria. Genoa 1891.
• Report on the oniscomorpha. Genoa 1891.
• Report upon the chilopoda. Genoa 1891.
• Contributions to our knowledge of the chilopoda of Liguria. Genoa 1890.
• Three New Species of zephronia from the oriental region. Genoa 1890.

• Zoologist
• Arachnologe
• Zookeeper
• Curator of a natural science collection
• Research Fellow of the British Museum
• English
• Member of the Royal Society
• Briton
• Born in 1863
• Died in 1947
• Man