Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald
Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey - Fitzgerald MBE (born 7 June 1910 in Dunleer, Ireland, † May 3, 1974 in Nairobi, Kenya) was an Irish entomologist, ornithologist, conservationist and plant collector.
Life and work
1930 graduated Vesey - Fitzgerald for a Bachelor of Science at Wye Agricultural College, University of London in the county of Kent. In 1932 he ran at Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad studies on biological pest control. A year later he Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London was. From 1933 to 1936 he headed research projects on the biological control of insect pests of sugar cane in Brazil, British Guiana and the British West Indies. Then he led until 1939 studies on the biological control of insect pests of coconut palms in the Seychelles, Madagascar and the East African coastal regions. In 1938 he married Rosalinda Octavia Hindson. From 1939 to 1941 he was an entomologist at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya.
After he took over in 1941 served one year in the Volunteer Army of the Federated Malay States, he worked until 1947 as an entomologist in the Locust fighting unit of the Middle East in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Oman. Between 1947 and 1949 he was a senior assistant game warden in Kenya. From 1949 to 1964 he worked as a senior research officer at the International Red Locust Control Service in Abercorn, Northern Rhodesia.
In 1964 he became an ecologist and conservationist in the national parks of Tanzania, where he experimented with other things in the Arusha National Park with an electric fence.
Vesey - Fitzgerald participated in numerous ornithological, entomological and botanical expeditions to Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, the Mascarene Islands in the Seychelles and Trinidad and Tobago in part. His plant collections are now in the Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the Botanical State Collection Munich, NU Herbarium of the University of KwaZulu -Natal, in the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle and the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden in Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Dedikationsnamen
Hampton Wildman Parker named 1933 The frog Flectonotus fitzgeraldi of Trinidad and Tobago and in 1947 the Skinkart Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi from the Seychelles in honor of Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey - Fitzgerald. More Ehrentaxa are Neodythemis fitzgeraldi ( Pinhey, 1961 ) and Apterostigma fitzgeraldi ( Weber, 1936).