Guy Dollman

**Captain John Guy Dollman** BA, FLS (1886-1942) (who was known as **Guy Dollman**) was a British zoologist and taxonomist. Dollman's Tree Mouse and Dollman's Vlei Rat are named after him.

## Life and work

Guy Dollman was the eldest son of the artist John Charles Dollman. He was born on 4 September 1886 and went to St Paul's School. He later went to St John's College Cambridge. In February 1907, when he was still a student, he was employed by the Department of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History). He spent most of his working life there as Assistant Keeper of Mammals.

In 1912, on an expedition to Vietnam, he discovered and named the Tonkin Snub-nosed Langur. He joined the British Army in 1915, and obtained a commission in the 19th London Regiment. He was injured in a bomb accident so he did not fight in the First World War.

In 1919, he returned to the museum. He was an adviser to the British group at the 1933 International Conference for the Preservation of the Flora and Fauna of Africa. This was the most important meeting about protecting nature before the Second World War. Dollman helped to decide which animal species needed protecting.

He travelled and wrote a lot with Walter Rothschild. Some of their writing included _New mammals from Dutch New Guinea_ (which was published in 1932) and a book about tree kangaroos which was called _The Genus Dendrolagus_ (which was published in 1936). He was also a very good artist, showing pictures at the Royal Academy. He also drew pictures for his own scientific writings.

Dollman died on 21 March 1942 when he was 65 years old.

## Binomial authority

Dollman is the binomial authority (the first person to name a species) for the following animals:

|Bates's Shrew (1915)|Black-headed Night Monkey (1909)|Christy's Dormouse (1914)|Country Mouse (with Thomas) (1909)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Cosens's gerbil (1914)|Dent's Shrew (1915)|Diminutive Gerbil (1911)|Dollman's Tree Mouse (1910)|
|Fiery Spiny Mouse (1910)|Flower's Shrew (1915)|Fox's Shrew (1915)|Giant Thicket Rat (1911)|
|Great-tailed Triok (with Rothschild) (1932)|Greater Hamster-Rat (1914)|Heather Shrew (1915)|Hun Shrew (1915)|
|Kemp's Spiny Mouse (1911)|Kemp's Thicket Rat (1911)|Lorrain Dormouse (1910)|MacMillan's Shrew (1915)|
|Mauritanian Shrew (1915)|Moonshine Shrew (1910)|Nyiro Shrew (1915)|Nigerian Shrew (1915)|
|Percival's gerbil (1914)|Percival's Spiny Mouse (1911)|Pygmy Ringtail Possum (with Rothschild) (1932)|Rudd's Mouse (1909)|
|Sahelian Tiny Shrew (1915)|Shaw Mayer's Brush Mouse (with Rothschild) (1932)|Silent Dormouse (1912)|Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat (1911)|
|Tarella Shrew (1915)|Tonkin Snub-nosed Langur (1912)|Turbo Shrew (1910)||
|Ugandan Lowland Shrew (1915)|Ultimate Shrew (1915)|Zaphir's Shrew (1915)||
- In 1912, Dollman classified _Elephantulus rufescens dundasi_, a subspecies of the Rufous Elephant Shrew;
- In 1912, Dollman classified _Rhynchocyon petersi adersi_, a subspecies of the Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew;
- In 1915, Dollman classified _Crocidura olivieri zuleika_, a subspecies of the African Giant Shrew;
- In 1932, Rothschild and Dollman also classified _Phascolosorex dorsalis brevicaudata_, a subspecies of the Narrow-striped Marsupial Shrew.

## Articles and Books written by Dollman

- _A History of British Mammals_; Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton, Guy Dollman, Martin Alister Campbell Hinton, and Edward Adrian Wilson (1910) ASIN: B0014IP87W
- _A new Elephant Shrew from Zanzibar_; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8th Series, Vol. X, (1912)
- _On the African Shrews belonging to the Genus Crocidura_; The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8th series (1915 & 1916).
- _Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum (Natural History)_; Longmans, Green and Co., (1921) available online
- _Guide to the Specimens of the Horse Family (Equidæ) Exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)_, 2nd ed.; Lydekker, Richard & Dollman, Guy; published by order of the Trustees (1922)
- _Records of Big Game: With Their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weights, and Horn & Tusk Measurements_ by Rowland Ward, John Guy Dollman, J. B. Burlace; Rowland Ward Ltd, (1922)
- _Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World, &c_. by Rowland Ward, J B Burlace, John Guy Dollman (1922)
- _The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya, and Tibet_ 2nd ed. by Richard Lydekker, revised by John Guy Dollman; published by Ward, (1924)
- _The Game Animals of Africa_ by Richard Lydekker, John Guy Dollman published by R. Ward, (1926) 2nd ed. (revised by Dollman), London
- _A new race of Arabian Gazelle_. Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1927)
- _Game animals of the Empire_ (1932) ASIN: B001855K8S
- _Mammals collected by Lord Cranbrook and Captain F. Kingdon Ward in Upper Burma_. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1932)
- _New mammals from Dutch New Guinea_. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 353,13-16; Rothschild, Lord Walter & Dollman, G. (1932).
- _On mammals collected in Dutch New Guinea by Mr. F. Shaw Mayer in 1930_. Rothschild, Lord Walter & Dollman, G. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1932), 211-219. (1933).
- _Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game_ edited by J. B. Burlace, Guy Dollman; published by Rowland Ward, 10th ed. (1935) ASIN: B000Q61X36
- _The Genus Dendrolagus (Tree Kangaroos)_; Rothschild, Walter and Dollman, Guy, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 21, 477-551 (1936).
- _African Antelopes_; Supplement to the Journal of the Royal African Society Vol. XXXV, No. CXLI; Macmillan and co, (1936) ASIN: B000WXIB38
- _The Basenji Dog_. Journal of the Royal African Society. 36(CXLII): 148-149 (1937)

## Other websites

- Obituary, the Times, 24 March 1942