Charles Hose FRGS. FLS (12 October 1863 – 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.[1]
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Life and career
He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted[2] in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree.[3] He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884. His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.[4]
Animal species named after Hose
Several species named to commemorate his work[5] as zoologist:
Amphibians
- Hose's frog, Odorrana hosii found in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
- Hose's tree frog, Philautus hosii endemic to Borneo: Indonesia and Malaysia prob. Brunei.
- Hose's toad, Pedostibes hosii, toad in Southeast Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Birds
- Hose's broadbill, Calyptomena hosii endemic to Borneo.
- Black oriole, Oriolus hosii endemic to Borneo.
Fish
- Leptobarbus hosii (Regan 1906) from northern Borneo.[6]
Mammals
- Hose's shrew or Bornean pygmy shrew, Suncus hosei endemic to Malaysia.
- Hose's pygmy flying squirrel, Petaurillus hosei endemic to Malaysia.
- Four-striped ground squirrel, Lariscus hosei endemic to Borneo.
- Hose's palm civet, Diplogale hosei endemic to Borneo: East Malaysia and Brunei.
- Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei
- Hose's leaf monkey, Presbytis hosei endemic to Borneo.
Insects
- The stick insect: Hermagoras hosei Kirby, 1896 - endemic to Borneo.
- The cockroach: Dorylaea hosei (Shelford, 1909).
Places named after Hose
Place
- Hose Mountains on Borneo.
- Fort Hose on Borneo Located in Marudi in Sarawak
Bibliography
Books authored by Charles Hose include:
- A descriptive account of the mammals of Borneo (1893)
- The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (a Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations) (with William McDougall) (1912)
- Natural Man: A Record from Borneo (1926)
- Fifty Years of Romance and Research - Or a Jungle-Wallah at Large (1927)
- The Field Book of a Jungle-Wallah: Being a Description of Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak (1929)
See also
References
- ^ Haddon, A. C. (20 November 1929). "Obituary: Dr. Charles Hose". Nature. 124 (3135): 845. doi:10.1038/124845a0.
- ^ "Hose, Charles". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 877–878.
- ^ "Hose, Charles (HS882C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ British Museum Collection
- ^ http://zoohistory.co.uk/html/modules/Downloads/files/whowaswho.pdf[permanent dead link] A Zoological 'Who was Who' by Mike Grayson
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families LEPTOBARBIDAE, XENOCYPRIDIDAE and TINCIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
External links
Media related to Charles Hose at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Charles Hose at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Hose at Internet Archive
- Weaving shuttle collected by Charles Hose, BBC History of the World in 100 Objects website
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