GB 0814 ZAAA - Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton (1866-1955)

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GB 0814 ZAAA 1893 Collection (fonds) 1 item Perkins , Robert Cyril Layton , 1866-1955 , entomologist

Born on 15 November 1866; educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1877–1885) and Jesus College, Oxford, 1885-1889; briefly worked as a private tutor at Dartmouth; selected by the Sandwich Islands committee (set up by the British Association and the Royal Society) to go as collector to the Hawaiian Islands, 1891; spent the greater part of the next ten years in the Hawaiian Islands collecting all groups of terrestrial animals; board of agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii, 1902-1904; director of the new division of entomology at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association's experimental station, 1904; retired to England, 1912; awarded an Oxford DSc, 1906; gold medal of the Linnean Society of London 1912; elected FRS, 1920; died, 1955.

Donation

Copy of Robert Cyril Layton. Perkins' journal in Molokai, 1893. Typescript copy of journal with MS corrections, 11 May 1893 - 29 June 1893. This is a typed-up copy of Perkins' original journal. Later in 1936 he distributed copies of a cleaned-up text to various libraries.

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English

ZSL also holds a transcript of the version of this manuscript which held in the Bishop Museum, Hawaii.

Entry transcribed by Sarah Drewery, April 2011. Sources: Oxford DNB
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
April 2011. Scientific personnel Scientists Entomologists Research Scientific research Entomological research Zoology Entomology Animals Insects Arthropods Organisms Perkins , Robert Cyril Layton , 1866-1955 , entomologist Hawaii USA North America Personnel People by occupation People

Donation

Copy of Robert Cyril Layton. Perkins' journal in Molokai, 1893. Typescript copy of journal with MS corrections, 11 May 1893 - 29 June 1893. This is a typed-up copy of Perkins' original journal. Later in 1936 he distributed copies of a cleaned-up text to various libraries.

Available. Please make an appointment in advance of your visit.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

• Engels

• Latijn

English

ZSL also holds a transcript of the version of this manuscript which held in the Bishop Museum, Hawaii.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• Engels