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 émigréPaul 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]
^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. JSTOR25076975.
^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. CiteSeerX10.1.1.379.2411.