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09 august 1947 clifton , bristol british zoology natural history museum , london , london zoo 04 march 1863 r. i. pocock.jpg r. i. pocock

r. i. pocock

reginald innes pocock f.r.s. -lrb- 4 march 1863 -- 9 august 1947 -rrb- was a british zoologist .
pocock was born in clifton , bristol , the fourth son of rev. nicholas pocock and edith prichard .
he began showing interest in natural history at st. edward 's school , oxford .
he received tutoring in zoology from sir edward poulton , and was allowed to explore comparative anatomy at the oxford museum .
he studied biology and geology at university college , bristol under conwy lloyd morgan and william johnson sollas .
in 1885 he became an assistant at the natural history museum , and worked in the section of entomology for a year .
he was put in charge of the collections of arachnida and myriapoda .
he was also tasked with arranging the british birds collections , in the course of which he developed a lasting interest in ornithology .
the 200 papers he published in his eighteen years at the museum soon brought him recognition as an authority on arachnida and myriapoda : he described between 300-400 species of millipede alone , and also described the scorpion genus `` brachistosternus '' .
in 1904 he left to become superintendent of london zoo , remaining so until his retirement in 1923 .
he then worked , as a voluntary researcher , in the british museum , in the mammals department .
he described the leopon in a 1912 letter to `` the field '' , based on examination of a skin sent to him by w. s. millard , the secretary of the bombay natural history society .
his brother edward innes pocock played international rugby for scotland and was part of cecil rhodes ' pioneer column .
his great grandfather was marine artist captain nicholas pocock .
