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English naturalist and civil engineer
Eugene William Oates (31 December 1845 – 16 November 1911) was an
English
naturalist and a civil engineer who worked on road projects in Burma.
Oates was born in
Sicily and educated in
Bath, England . For a time he attended
Sydney College, Bath and later under private tutors.
[1] He was a civil servant in the Public Works Department in
India and
Burma from 1867 to 1899. He retired to England, where he compiled a catalogue of the birds' eggs in the
Natural History Museum , and served as secretary of the
British Ornithologists' Union from 1898 to 1901.
[2]
[3]
He died in
Edgbaston .
[4]
A
species of Indian snake,
Typhlops oatesii ,
[5] a Burmese frog,
Humerana oatesii , and seven species of birds are named in his honor.
[6]
Publications
Oates, E.W. (1883). A handbook to the birds of British Burmah including those found in the adjoining state of Karennee. Vol II. London: R.H. Porter.
Oates, E.W. (1888). "On the Indian and Burmese Scorpions of the Genus Isometrus , with Description of Three new Species".
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 3 : 244–250.
Oates, E.W. (1889-1890).
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . Birds.—Vol. I & II. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers).
Oates, E.W. (1899). A manual of the Game Birds of India. Vol. II, p. 139-146. Bombay: Cambridge.
References
^ Anonymous (1912). "Obituary: Eugene William Oates". Ibis . 54 (2): 342.
doi :
10.1111/j.1474-919X.1912.tb05299.x .
^ Anonymous (1908).
"Mr. E. W. Oates" . Ibis . 9th series. 2 (Jubilee Supplement): 221–222.
^
Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1890).
"Notes on Oates's birds of India" . Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . 5 : 167–305.
^
Lockyer, Sir Norman (1912).
Nature . Macmillan Journals Limited. p. 118.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN
978-1-4214-0135-5 . ("Oates, E.W.", p. 193).
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013).
The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians . Pelagic Publishing. p. 157.
ISBN
978-1-907807-42-8 .
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