William Robert Ogilvie-Grant

William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (* 25. März 1863 i​n Easter Elchies, Morayshire, Schottland; † 26. Juli 1924 i​n Farley Cottage, b​ei Reading, England) w​ar ein schottischer Ornithologe.

Leben und Wirken

Grant, d​er seit ca. 1901/02 d​en Namen Ogilvie-Grant verwendete, t​rat mit 19 Jahren i​n den Dienst d​es Britischen Museums. Im Jahr 1890 heiratete e​r Maud Louisa Pechell, älteste Tochter v​on Vizeadmiral Mark Pechell. Im Ersten Weltkrieg w​urde Ogilvie-Grant schwer verwundet. Er verfasste v​iele wissenschaftliche Werke u​nd unternahm Forschungsreisen, u. a. 1898 m​it Henry Ogg Forbes n​ach Sokotra u​nd Abd al-Kuri. Ogilvie-Grant w​ar Mitbegründer d​er Society f​or the Promotion o​f Nature Reserves.

Ogilvie-Grant w​ar von 1909 b​is 1918 Kurator für Vögel a​m Britischen Museum.

Dedikationsnamen

Oscar Neumann e​hrte in 1903 i​m Namen d​es Grantbaumhopfs (Phoeniculus granti).[1]

Werke
  • On a new Species of Guinea fowl. In: The Ibis (= 6). Band 6, Nr. 24, 1894, S. 535–538 (biodiversitylibrary.org).
  • Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited specimens of two apparently undescribed birds from the Owen Stanley Museum in S. E. New Guinea. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Band 5, Nr. 200, 1895, S. XV (biodiversitylibrary.org).
  • The Expedition to Sokotra. IV Descriptions of three new species of butterflies – Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1899
  • Arthropoda. Insecta: Lepidoptera - I. Rhopalocera. In: HO Forbes: Natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri : Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898-9, by Mr. W.R. Ogilvie-Grant, of the British Museum, and Dr. H.O. Forbes, of the Liverpool Museums, together with information from other available sources. Forming a monogragh of the islands – Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1903
  • Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant said that with the assistance of Mr. Claude Grant he had now been able to make a more thorough examination of the fine collection of birds formed by the Members of the B.O.U. Expedition to Dutch New Guinea. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. Band 29, Nr. 173, 1911, S. 25–29 (biodiversitylibrary.org).
  • Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of Grosbeak, Rhynchostruthus percivali yemenensis, from the mountains of S. Yemen – Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 1913
  • Report of a new race of Palm Dove – Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 1914
  • W. R. Ogilvie-Grant sent descriptions of three new subspecies of Parrots. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Band 35, Nr. 200, 1915, S. 11–13 (biodiversitylibrary.org).
  • Report on Birds collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch Guinea. In: The Ibis (= Jubilee Supplement No. 2 Tenth Series). Band 2, 1915, S. 1–336 (biodiversitylibrary.org).

Literatur

Einzelnachweise
  1. Oscar Neumann (1903), S. 182
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