Charles Francis Massey Swinnerton (1877–1938) is an English naturalist who gained fame through his studies of the tsetse fly .
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Biography
Early years Swinnerton spent in India. He then returned to England to study. He was accepted to Oxford in 1897, but he chose to move to Africa.
In Natal, he met a British Indian entomologist named Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall , who became his colleague and friend. The next 19 years, the scientist collected plants, insects and birds, using one of the farms as his base. The British Museum was a regular recipient of these samples. In 1907 Swinnerton was elected a member of the Linnaean Society . In 1918-1919 he began to explore the problem of tsetse flies.
In 1937 he was awarded the Order of Saints Michael and George . Heading for the award, he died in a plane crash of the de Havilland Leopard Moth aircraft in Tanganyika on June 8, 1938.
Works
- 1911 Flora of Gazaland - Linnaean Society
- 1936 The Tsetse Flies of East Africa - CFM Swynnerton [2]
- Vernacular Names of East African Mammals - edited by CFM Swynnerton, Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 84, p. 547–552 [3]
Notes
- 2 1 2 Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science - 1902.
- ↑ Sutton Books
- ↑ Electronic Bibliography for African Languages and Linguistics (not available link) . The appeal date is October 19, 2018. Archived May 16, 2008.